Selected by DDG

It would be accurate to describe DDG’s ambitions as galactic. The rapper has experienced a rapid rise since his first EP debuted in 2018, accruing greater fame and success with each drop of new music. He would hit gold in 2019 and then into the annals of platinum the following year with the massive hit single “Moonwalking in Calabasas”, which would reach over half a billion global streams.

Last year, he parlayed that success into the mixtape ‘Die 4 Respect’ in collaboration with big-name producer OG Parker, with the project garnering acclaim and a coveted spot well inside the Billboard 100 charts in the US. It’s all par for the course for DDG, a rapper who emerged fully-formed as a hugely ambitious artist with big dreams and the drive to realise them.

Now, he’s closer than ever to making those dreams reality. He’s laid down the marker of declaring his desire to become the first ever rapper in space, and befitting those out-of-these-world ambitions, he has now dropped a new space-faring single, “Elon Musk”, which expounds on those ambitions in confident style with the help of fellow hitmaker Gunna.

Reaching for the stars is just an everyday act for DDG. To celebrate his ever-climbing success, we asked him to pick 10Trax featuring his favourite UK artists, from Digga D to Young T & Bugsey to Central Cee.