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Kojey Radical

September 24, 2025·1 hr 6 min·5 clips
Kojey Radical's mic was cut off mid-lyric in Oxford, making him wonder if he should quit music entirely.
The first question is simple in the best way. The host asks what Kojey Radical is wearing, and he answers like the outfit happened through impulse, memory, and permission. It does not feel styled to death. A hoodie, a cut Margiela shirt, altered Brick Lane jeans, AVAVAV shoes, and Great Frog rings all become clues to how he feels. The scissors are the funny bit. When the host notices the nerve it takes to cut Margiela, Kojey makes it sound less precious: a janky pair, a quick decision, no grand ceremony. Clothes talk first here. He says they help you say how you feel before you have to put words to it, and that becomes the center of the conversation. Comfort keeps sneaking back in. Even with big shoes and heavy rings, his regular question is still whether he can feel good wearing the thing. Then childhood enters. The host asks whose look obsessed him as a kid, and Kojey traces it through the music that had him at each stage. Pharrell is the big doorway: merch shirts, Supra trainers, saved-up money, shoes worn until they leaned wrong. The phases keep mutating. A rocker stretch, a punk-boy fantasy, color, then the first skinny jeans from Uniqlo after GCSE results. The whole thing stays loose and warm. Style comes through as trial, costume, confidence, and a way to be seen before you know exactly who you are. By the end, he is imagining a body that can adapt, survive fire, or teleport when winning is off the table. Then the sofa and fish finger sandwiches bring it right back home.

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A cut Margiela shirt, Brick Lane jeans, and a run through childhood style give this conversation its shape.

Fashion Neurosis has its best pull in the guest's way of dressing: a hoodie, a Margiela shirt cut shorter with janky scissors, Brick Lane jeans cut by hand, rings from The Great Frog, and shoes worn because there are only so many places to get away with them.

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For when a cut-up Margiela shirt says more than a finished outfit.

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