The bus line doesn’t exist when you’re in an E-class Mercedes. Fakemink knows this. He raps about it anyway.
“fml .” arrived 29 January as the lead single from EP The Boy who cried Terrified, produced by cranes and Burial. Yes, that Burial.
The track lifts its skeletal framework from “Rival Dealer,” the 2013 dubstep producer’s meditation on South London isolation.
Where Burial soundtracked post-New Labour Britain’s 3AM night bus journeys, the Essex rapper uses the same barren production for something closer: the hollow victory of making it out when the underground was the only place that felt real.
The lyrics refuse to celebrate. “I’m just a guy, no God,” fakemink repeats, addressing the pressure his breakthrough year created.
Part of the UK Ug movement that spent 2025 building followings through lo-fi uploads and deliberately shoddy mixes, he now faces audiences treating his words “like scripture.”
The song’s title becomes its thesis: success doesn’t fix the parts of you that needed validation to begin with.
Fakemink refuses to resolve the contradiction. One line brags about daily income.
The next admits he still misses “nights on the bus.” The all-black E-class exists in the present tense. The bus belongs to memory. He’s not celebrating the upgrade.
The music video shifts from fakemink’s usual grainy iPhone aesthetic into actual cinematography, lifting wide-angle shots from Wong Kar-Wai’s Fallen Angels.
The budget upgraded. Whether that’s good depends on whether you preferred the rawness.
This marks his first project since 2023’s London’s Saviour. The full album Terrified arrives later in 2026.
The Burial sample provides weight jerk percussion can’t manufacture alone.
It’s the sound of someone who got what they wanted and discovered the wanting was better than the having.
He’d rather be on the bus.
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