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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 […]
Gangsta Boo’s legacy lives on. More than two months after her untimely death, TMZ Hip Hop confirmed plans for the rapper’s first posthumous album. Sources said Gangsta Boo’s estate has already secured a number of big-name features, including Latto, Run the Jewels, Skepta, and La Chat. The insiders also revealed that Drumma Boy, Nick Hook, and El-P have signed on to […]
Skepta has weighed in on Louis Vuitton’s next chapter. The 40-year-old grime rapper took to Twitter this week to offer LV a few suggestions as it continues the search for its next leader. Questions and uncertainty began swirling around the French fashion house in late 2021, when its menswear creative director Virgil Abloh died after a private battle with cancer. Though […]
UK rap (and to an even greater degree, UK drill) has come under a bit of flak this year. The naysayers are circling with accusations of “bait samples” and a lack of originality, but when we sat down to run through our pick of the year’s best songs, it turns out that was a load […]
Back in August, a video did the rounds of Skepta jumping on deck for Circoloco at DC-10 in Ibiza. Even for those of us who remember his pre-MCing days when he would DJ for Jme and the rest of Meridian Crew were a little surprised to see him on the 1s and 2s at a house […]
It’s barely been a month since K-Trap released The Last Whip II, a star-studded 19-tracker that became an instant fan favourite and a standout for the year, but he’s already back with a big A-list remix of Trapo highlight “Warm”. When the UK drill star announced the remix’s imminent arrival on Tuesday, he simply posted the artwork with […]
Tremaine Emory’s Denim Tears has just unveiled its new curated collection alongside grime star Skepta and art/luxury marketplace Sotheby’s. The collection follows a whirlwind few weeks for the Tottenham legend. Earlier this month, he announced his first foray into the world of contemporary art with renowned auction house Sotheby’s, and not long after revealed his service agency Big Smoke Corp […]
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 […]
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 […]
A year on from the special, live-streamed ceremony held in the midst of lockdown, last night saw the MOBO Awards return with its first live in-person ceremony at the Coventry Building Society Arena. Hosted by Munya Chawawa and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, the ceremony broke from tradition by eschewing broadcast on one of the major channels, instead opting […]
