1st mask
Dark grey-blue, and custom-made in the UK to fit his face. He swapped the balaclava for it at the beat switch in the Birds video, ahead of Utopia, and wore it through Huncholini the 1st until it was burned outside Brixton Academy in March 2022.
2nd mask
Designed by Lucien Clarke after Huncho played him Chasing Euphoria: slanted, angry brows for his “beast mode” and a nod to old-school Japanese samurai. Unveiled at O2 Academy Brixton on 22 March 2022 and worn through my neighbours don't know. and U2OPIA.
3rd mask
Ivory and black, inspired by the Phantom of the Opera, and debuted in the ANONYMOUS video.
About the names: they're ours, not his. We haven't found M Huncho naming any of his masks. Asking Lucien Clarke for the 2nd, he just said “I want you to design my new face” (Hypebeast, 2022 ). So each heading describes the mask by when it came, who designed it or what inspired it.
“When you're growing up, change is always seen as something like negative… But it can also be a good thing as well.”
“When the beat changes in Birds… there's new Huncho in town, and I feel a bit grey.”
“I feel like I've come too far in the game to do that, man. I'm too established to do that.”
“I felt like man needed to create a brand off it.”
