Giggs: 'Look What The Cat Dragged In'

Don't spit out your cornflakes! For those not in the know, Man U's hairy-chested winger hasn't swapped Old Trafford for the recording studio. Giggs is in fact the moniker of South London rapper Nathan Thompson - and 'Look What The Cat Dragged In' is the latest trailer for his second album and upcoming XL debut, Let Em Ave It. Giggs has been in trouble with the law a few times in the last decade, but he's brushed off those problems to become one of the hottest-tipped acts in UK hip-hop. On this track he shows precisely why, with some very deft - if very daft - rhymes backed by a solid-as-granite hook.

Built around a simple but relentless synth riff, 'Look What The Cat Dragged In' has that knack of doing very little but still burrowing into your brain face-first like an earworm. Giggs's deep, distinctive delivery gives a semblance of weight to some very silly lyrics. There's stuff about gettin' the laydeez ("Wanna' lean in ma cockpit / Feelin' ma chopstick"), unprotected sex ("I done it bareback / I take chances"), boozing ("Courvoisier / Fillin' up eight glasses") and the eternal boobs/bum debate ("I'm a breast man but I rate arses"). It'd be a crime to take it too seriously, but there's something fantastically grin-inducing about a rap track so British yet so swaggering and comfortably assured.