A GLASGOW rapper is preparing to release a new music video directed by award-winning filmmakers.

Andy Jamieson, better known by his stage name Subkonsious, has teamed up with Hannah Currie and Tim Currie who were behind the Bafta-nominated 2018 documentary We Are All Here.

The video is for his new tune Blessings and will be released on YouTube on July 15.

Andy said: “This song in particular was about dealing with my own mental health issues and trying to be motivated enough to write music and try and do it on my own.

“I totally lost all motivation for it and I just wanted to pack it in and just stop.

“But I found when I was going through my depression, songwriting and the stage and being a part of the music scene was my outlet for dealing with a lot of the grief and stuff that I was feeling.

“That’s the inspiration for the song, it’s about my own journey from coming from a dark place and trying to find some kind of light in the situation and where I could talk about how I’m feeling and my music.”

Subkonsious was part of a Glasgow hip-hop crew until 2017 until it disbanded. He has toured across the UK and Europe, including playing shows in Dublin, Vienna, London and Manchester.

Once barely talked about, Andy thinks that Scottish hip hop is on the rise and said the genre is beginning to get attention from the US and the more established English grime scene.

He said: “Before, it was ignored by most mainstream platforms, like the radio. No one was really paying attention.

“Since artists like Shogun, Sherlock and Ransom FA have been on BBC Scotland, as well as having the internet, you’re seeing a lot of attention coming from America and down south.

“There are a lot of guys in the Scottish scene who have now grabbed mainstream attention and no one really cares anymore about the fact they are Scottish but the fact that they are making good music.

“People are starting to twig onto the fact that Scotland does have really talented creative types.

“In the beginning, it seemed like it was a lot harder to get anywhere but now it seems like there are a lot of outside eyes looking into the Scottish hip hop scene and paying close attention, which never used to happen.”