uk-rap
Page: 3
Mark July 7-9 in your calendars, people, because Wireless Festival has just announced the first round of headliners for this year’s edition. Unlike last year, when the festival was spread across three different sites across London and Birmingham, Wireless will just be at one site: its spiritual home of Finsbury Park. Playboi Carti will headline Friday where he’ll […]
After some time away, rising London rapper Nix Northwest is back with a new jazz-infused single titled “Sun In My Eyes”, which is lifted from his forthcoming debut album, Xin’s Disappearance. The track offers an insight into the life of ‘Xin’—a fictional alter-ego portrayed by Nix across the conceptual LP—as visuals depict the liminal space between […]
Last year, Joe James released no fewer than four—yes, four—projects and, even more impressively, they were all really damn good, earning him positions on quite a few end-of-year lists in one way or another. But if you thought he was about to take a breather, think again because he’s just released yet another project: 3. The Essex rapper has already followed […]
Quite often when we write these lists, we’ll half-complain about how much of a struggle it is and woe-is-me-I’ve-been-tearing-my-hair-out, but the truth is this process was actually the most fun it’s ever been this year. A big part of that is how diverse music has been in 2022. Diversity, to some extent, has always been […]
Here at Complex, we wanted to acknowledge and honour the achievements of UK rappers this past year by compiling a list of the 10 best! To help us with this difficult task, we brought in some top industry experts and insiders, including Complex UK’s Editor-In-Chief, Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson, super-producer M1OnTheBeat, Capital Xtra’s Robert Bruce, Block […]
South London’s Shadez The Misfit is back with a brand new single, “South-Side Solace”, and it marks a bit of a landmark moment in the artist’s life. The last few years have been pretty transformative for Shadez. He’s one of his recent single, “2B3”, was used for the backdrop for Barack Obama’s segment in a […]
The plaudits and awards are still technically rolling in for Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and honestly, we were content with letting it roll a little longer and continuing to digest it, but then last week, Simbi took to her socials to make the shock announcement that not only had she been working on […]
In a world of immediacy and impatience, there really is something to be said for biding your time and resisting the urge to take the first opportunity. Avelino, for example, has been patiently laying the foundations of his next move for years now. We’ve had a huge tower of singles and three scene-stealing mixtapes—Young Fire, […]
Fresh off joining forces with Lil Uzi Vert for a remix of his breakout hit “Miles,” Skaiwater returns with his debut full-length offering, Rave. The 11-track mixtape features tracks “A Lie,” “Auto,” “Chloe,” “Eyes (Vip Mix),” “Boys Don’t Cry,” and “Ihy,” as well as the Uzi-featuring remix of Skaiwater’s viral hit “Miles.” Since dropping “Miles” earlier this year, the […]
The road to Rippa’s current burgeoning success has been a long and storied one (quite literally, as it happens). The young MC has been under the wing of Ciaran Thapar for just shy of a decade now and they’ve been through a lot together—so much so that Ciaran made Rippa the main character in his […]
