Manga Saint Hilare Fires Back At The Haters With ‘140 World Problems’

140 World Problems lands with zero warning and all the weight you’d expect from Manga Saint Hilare. This is his first solo drop of the year, and it wastes no time; tight, direct, and full of the same no-nonsense commentary that’s kept him sharp for over two decades.

Spitting over production from Freeza Chin, Manga sounds locked in. The beat’s cold but lifted by flashes of euphoria, and Manga cuts through with a flow that keeps evolving mid-bar. He’s talking Twitter clowns, incel logic, and the ongoing mess of being underrated in Grime despite years of consistency. It’s part vent, part reminder. He knows where he sits in the scene, and he’s saying it without needing a cosign.

This follows the Everything Is Under Control deluxe release, which saw him hand the keys to producers like Douvelle19, Lewi B, and Alpengeist. That project showed his range. 140 World Problems brings the focus back to the root of it all: bars and perspective. No hooks, no tricks, just the energy that made Manga a serious name in the first place.

Behind the music, Manga’s clearly been moving. He’s balancing fatherhood, hosting BBC 1Xtra with Sian Anderson, and somehow still finding time to record Grime mixes in his room that hit YouTube without big rollouts but rack up views anyway. His DJ sets, Red Bull collabs, and guest appearances with the re-formed Roll Deep show he’s not clinging to the past, he’s shaping whatever comes next.

There’s always been something deliberate about how Manga moves. He’s self-aware, sometimes self-deprecating, but never off point. Whether he’s acknowledging a fifth MOBO snub or sending for mid MCs, you can feel the years in every bar, but he never sounds tired.

This single isn’t the peak of a campaign. It’s the spark before the next one. There’s got to be a new album coming, a direct follow-up to Everything Is Under Control, and if this is the tone, it’ll be a step deeper into the kind of Grime that doesn’t chase hype, it builds it from scratch.

Manga doesn't chase attention. He’s already got it.