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For the past year or so, Steel Banglez had been a little quiet on the music front. After the passing of his good friend Sidhu Moose Wala, the producer understandably took a little time out of the limelight. He returned last month with “Mera Na”, the third posthumous release from Wala that also served as Banglez’s […]
This time last month, Krept & Konan came storming back into our lives with “Dat Way”, a big, up-front banger that saw them reunite with “Robbery Remix” co-conspirator Abra Cadabra for the duo’s first bit of new music in three years. That was a welcome enough gift as it was, but now they’re back with an […]
West London trio WSTRN are synonymous with summer bangers and they’ve gone and treated us another with the help of BackRoad Gee. On “Unload”, Haile, Akelle and Louis Rei play to their strengths of catchy hooks, skippy flows and punchlines with the welcome addition of BRG, who brings his signature menacing energy to the track to create a banger […]
Brixton rapper Sneakbo announced his new mixtape, Jetski Wave 3, at the top of this month, which comes off the back of a string of singles he’s put out this year, including “Come A Long Way” with Ard Adz and “Dripping” with Greedo, both of which are set to feature on the project. Building on that momentum, Sneakbo’s already […]
It’s been a whirlwind couple of years for BackRoad Gee—filled with high-profile collabs and a sky-high stack of underground hits—but the wins don’t stop just yet as he strikes once again with “A Yo”, a decadent anthem with assistance from BG and TizzTrap. Produced by Nick French, “A Yo” is probably even more riotous than you’d […]
The road to one of the most anticipated albums of the year continues. Last night, East London legend Ghetts lifted the lid on the latest extract from the upcoming Conflict Of Interest: “No Mercy” with Pa Salieu and Backroad Gee. Produced by TenBillion Dreams, it’s a dramatic team-up that sets a seasoned veteran against two upstarts who are taking […]
At the top of last year, we predicted that 2020 would bring a raft of experimentation from the UK drill scene, and what followed was one of the most exciting years in British music that saw all our expectations surpassed. It wasn’t just UK drill that dominated either—a glut of British rappers and MCs came […]
Last year, we opened this feature with the words “2019 has been strongly mixed”, and given the thunderstorm of horror that has been 2020—a dreadful cocktail of a globe-trotting deadly virus, worldwide economic devastation and worsening race relations—we’d do just about anything to go back to those halcyon days. However! Music, as always, has been an […]
UK rap and grime are not the same. Though they operate in similar spaces, the two British genres are different entities. UK drill, road rap’s offspring, is arguably the closest thing there is to grime—from styles and flows to beat patterns—but even then, it’s still very much its own stable. So many lazy, uncultured hacks would have you believe it but not […]
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