Editorial & Features
Interviews, features and culture coverage with an insider's eye — for platforms that want the real version.
The Story
Built from the inside
Trapped Magazine started in 2013, in a university classroom. I was a mature student from South London, leaving an old life behind, frustrated that nobody was covering UK underground culture from inside it. The platforms that existed ran on brand partnerships. We wanted the raw version — the streetwear, music and art actually moving the culture.
The name was mine. I grew up on South London council estates and watched too many talented people stay trapped in cycles that kept their creativity from the world — while the industry's gatekeepers decided who got through. Trapped exists to break both.
From an NHS-backed youth culture magazine championing local talent, to Krept & Konan on the cover before the MOBOs, to shelves in the New Era and Trapstar flagship stores — and a merch line that ended up on D Block Europe. When the funding stopped and the co-founders moved on, I stayed, financed it myself, and put the work in. Still here. Still the job: find the talent, tell the story, open the door.