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Last year, Glasgow grime producer and Internet Public Radio host Kami-O wowed us all with his expansive Lightworks EP, pulling together East Asian melodies, industrial thump, plenty of bass and some inspired sample choices. Now, however, he’s presenting something slightly closer to home and a great deal more personal to him: the Biren EP. Ahead of the project’s April 23 […]
With the end of lockdown more or less in sight for us all, Manchester’s Parklife Festival has just confirmed the first wave of acts and with it the announcement for their 2021 edition. Among the stacked list are Dave, Megan Thee Stallion, Skepta, Pa Salieu, DaBaby, Disclosure, Young Thug, Burna Boy, AJ Tracey, Mabel, slowthai, Nines, Mist, Earl Sweatshirt, […]
The Grammy Awards have always been controversial. For as long as they have existed (61 years), their results have been hotly debated. This year, however, “music’s biggest night” was perhaps its most controversial ever. Already on the backfoot thanks to pandemic restrictions, with no live audience and awards presented on an outdoor stage, the ceremony netted its […]
Last month, four of North London’s finest MCs—Capo Lee, Jme, Frisco and Shorty—made the surprise announcement that not only had they been in the studio together, they also had a full project ready to go. With the announcement they also dropped the first single, “Baitest Sound”, followed soon after by the visuals. Two weeks later and […]
It was mere weeks ago that Ghetts announced he’d be releasing a new album, but with the coronavirus pandemic screwing with the passage of time, it feels like it’s been an eternity since the artwork and cryptic clues began to grace his Twitter and Instagram pages. Regardless, the point is it’s here now. In recent […]
Already this year, the UK has been spoilt rotten with exceptional rappers releasing exceptional projects and perhaps the most wildly eclectic of them all came from Chip. Technically a mixtape, Chip’s fascinating Snakes & Ladders is not a perfect project, but then mixtapes aren’t supposed to be—and it still stands as his best full-length yet. What you need […]
Since stepping out from behind the boards as a sought-after producer in 2017, S-X has made one of the smoothest transitions into solo artist that we’ve seen in contemporary British music. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter, born Sam Gumbley, made his stamp in the music industry some years before his singing career, producing 2009 grime reload classic “Wooo […]
After officially announcing the title of his upcoming album, Conflict Of Interest, Ghetts is kicking off 2021 with one of the album’s key singles, “Skengman” with Stormzy. The new track is actually the third single to be taken from the album, following “Mozambique” with Jaykae and Moonchild Sanelly and “IC3” with Skepta—both of which were widely […]
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 […]
As we wave goodbye to another year in the terrordome and try not to think about what 2021 will bring, we can at least be grateful that British musicians somehow managed to top the year before—no mean feat, given the blockbuster works 2019 gave us. Established dons like Footsie, Manga and Potter Payper all released […]
