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At the end of this month (May 26), Jords will release his landmark debut album, Dirt In The Diamond, a momentous new project that’s been in the works for some time. We’ve already had a couple of tastes of the new album—“Drill vs Grime” with Lil Sykes and last month’s twofer release, “MoBay” / “Stay Close” […]
Creativity juices are flowing. Inside Metropolis’ lofty halls, music is being made at an almost industrial scale, but in ways that can only be termed organic. In Studio A, producer Ben Billions and alt-pop queen La Roux are cooking up a beat while, in Studio B, UK rap wonderkids A1 x J1 have finished a […]
Just shy of a year on from the release of SMH, Vibbar rhymer and podcaster Jordy is back with the KMT EP. We got our first tastes of the EP with pre-release singles “Enemies” and “PEAK!”, and to celebrate the project’s release, he also released its third single, “Forty Acres”, with Wretch 32. In many ways, KMT is a spiritual successor […]
When Wretch 32 dropped his debut project, Learn From My Mixtape, in 2006, everything changed—not just for him, but the entire British music scene he was about to disrupt. Here we had a grime-inspired rapper from Tottenham, North London, whose very first release was packed with the kind of penmanship US rap’s Mount Rushmore—of every era—would highly […]
The Grammy Awards have always been controversial. For as long as they have existed (61 years), their results have been hotly debated. This year, however, “music’s biggest night” was perhaps its most controversial ever. Already on the backfoot thanks to pandemic restrictions, with no live audience and awards presented on an outdoor stage, the ceremony netted its […]
Last last month, Universal Music UK announced the launch of Def Jam’s UK outpost, 0207 Def Jam, helmed by the five-piece team of Alec and Alex Boateng as the label’s Co-Presidents, Amy Tettey as Managing Director, Char Grant as A&R Director and Jacqueline Eyewe as the Marketing Director. The news came with the promise that they would be […]
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 […]
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