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The growth of Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif’s hip-hop festival, Rolling Loud—from their first one-day event in Miami in 2015, to now bringing it to Europe on a large scale—has been astronomical. On July 22, back after two years following the COVID-19 pandemic, Rolling Loud fans got to experience three days of rap music greatness from across […]

Part-time chef, grime MC, and TV personality Big Zuu is back with visuals for his Jme and Novelist-assisted banger, “Offline”, from his recently released debut album, Navigate. The three MCs leave no room for error on the Sir Sypro-produced scorcher. First up to bat is Big Zuu, who sounds right at home atop the distorted bass and […]

It’s been far too long since the last Meridian Dan drop (2019’s “Yo G”), but he’s finally back with his new single, “Teachers Pets”, and he’s joined by his old Meridian Crew teammates Jme and President T.  The instrumental comes from Sir Spyro, giving the three MCs a chuggy, dubstep-leaning bed for them to bounce on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s been a tumultuous decade for all of us. The past ten years have seen Britian host the Olympics, endure uninterrupted Tory rule and conclude it by crashing out of the European Union in the most embarrassing way possible. Similarly, grime hasn’t exactly had a smooth run. From the genre’s beginning (2001) up until around 2009, it had made a […]

MsM. Yes, you’ve heard the name on tracks and your favourite grime sets. Born and raised in North London, MsM has been working behind the scenes of grime for years as a mixing engineer. First starting out in his parents’ house, Michalis Michael now boasts an illustrious career, working with the likes of BBK, Drake, Ed Sheeran, […]