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Over the weekend, Camden’s KOKO celebrated its first anniversary since its post-fire refurbishment with a massive Bank Holiday bash featuring a broad mix of UK club paragons. Central to that was Skepta and Jammer’s Más Tiempo event, which featured the two grime-turned-house impresarios flanked by Benji B, Salomé Le Chat, Kitty Amor, DJ Maximum, Ossie and J Kolo. The Más Tiempo […]
A new exhibition is coming to the Museum of London and it puts the spotlight on one of the UK’s proudest exports: grime. Co-curated by Roony ‘Risky’ Keefe alongside the museum, the exhibition is called Grime Stories: From The Corner To The Mainstream, and it uses video footage, photography, and trinkets to trace grime’s history right back […]
Nothing speaks to the competitive spirit of grime quite like Jammer’s Lord Of The Mics. Skepta vs. Devilman, P Money vs. Big H, Wiley vs. Kano. It’s been responsible for some of the most historic, and in some cases zeitgeist-shifting, clashes in the genre’s 20-year history. Heavily inspired by the long history of sound clashes […]
Seemingly out of nowhere, Jammer and Carns Hill have lifted the lid on a surprise new collaboration, “Nasty”, and it’s quite a thing to behold. A relentless storm of drums set against Jammer at the height of his powers, both producer and MC are on top form on this surprising but very welcome meeting of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grime was never supposed to win, let alone last this long. Fresh out the gate, the elder statesmen of UK garage refused entry to our tracksuit-wearing masters of ceremonies, leaving them no other option but to create their own stage. Then there was ‘the establishment’ and mainstream press to deal with, who felt the content was […]
The eighth edition of legendary grime clash platform Lord Of The Mics has arrived and, as expected, it’s renewed the buzz and energy within its scene. At a special screening in East London last week, a select group of fans were treated to an early glimpse of the action (as well as some live barring from […]
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