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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 […]
For the better part of a decade, South London MC and producer Jon E Clayface has been giving us regular doses of his long-running “Mayhem” saga, beginning with the first edition back in 2013. Today he returns with the 10th edition, subtitled ‘Ronin’ and co-produced alongside Morris Beats. Nodding to his passion for martial arts, Jon leans […]
Just last month, grime veteran D Double E whipped us all into a frenzy when he surprise-dropped his collab with Kano, “Tell Me A Ting“, and announced he had a new album on the way. That was later followed-up with a solid-gold, all-star remix featuring BackRoad Gee, Novelist, P Money and Frisco, and now—in what might be the […]
East London producer/fashionista Kwollem has shared his long-awaited sophomore project, c2c, a nostalgic “mellow grime” EP cooked up with with Essex rapper and creative Joe James. Re-arranging 140BPM productions with his own smooth take on grime, the project has a larger focus on original music compared to KwolleM’s 2015 debut EP, Mellow. Griminess, soul samples, wifey riddims, and grime OG vocals from of Crazy Titch […]
Channel U is set to return to our screens in November. The iconic music TV station, which began broadcasting back in 2003, soundtracked a generation and provided the visuals for many of the formative tracks which defined grime. Fittingly, Channel U has been brought back to premiere Against All Odds—a new film documenting the rise of grime in the […]
Earlier this morning, Stormzy premiered his new music video “Superheroes” in a way we don’t usually see: streaming the video into a number of UK school classrooms, straight to its intended audience. The track, which features on his 2019 album Heavy Is The Head, offers a message of hope and inspiration to young black people. The […]
It’s been quite a week for grime fans. First we got Boy Better Know together on “Red Card” and now we’ve got D Double E and Kano together on new track “Can’t Tell Me A Ting”. Backed by a dizzying production from Nat Powers, the two N.A.S.T.Y Crew icons remind us of East London’s grime […]
When Frisco linked up with D Double E and Ghetts for “Colours” in July, it was all but confirmed that he would be dropping an album at some point, and this was confirmed last night with the announcement of The Familiar Stranger, which is due out next month. With the announcement came some visuals from Chas Appeti […]
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 […]
The cat is officially out of the bag. Capping off what was a pretty huge week for both announcements and actual releases was the news that Dizzee Rascal would be releasing a new album, E3 AF, his seventh studio album to date. Not only that, but the first whispers seemed to suggest that it’s going to […]
