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Grime

July 2024

  • Smooth … Skepta on stage at the Big Smoke festival.

    Skepta review – grime royalty broadcasts London to the world

    The Tottenham-born rapper transmits forceful hits and ferocious lesser-known cuts to the inaugural Big Smoke festival crowd

May 2024

  • Lady Sanity performs in Stan Douglas’s ISDN.

    Reverb review – summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in a concrete basement!

    This pounding show explores the magic of collaborations – between musicians and between the worlds of art and music. Our writer gets so deep in the groove he can’t get out

April 2024

  • A man and two children sit on a wall with a wall of speakers to their left

    Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator

    Aleema Gray used British Library’s collection to assemble Beyond the Bassline exhibition about Black British music
  • Lyrical adventurer … Central Cee’s freestyles have been influential in spreading new slang.

    Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation

    Fuelled by music fandom and social media, young British people’s slang is evolving to include words with pidgin, patois and Arabic roots – even where strong regional English dialects exist
  • Drummer Bobbie Vylan, left, with Bobby Vylan on stage in 2018.

    ‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy

    The London punk-rap duo’s second album advocates for repatriation and an aggressive approach to the rental crisis. But equally important, says frontman Bobby Vylan, is promoting hope and self-worth

March 2024

  • Ghetts on stage.

    Ghetts review – a founding father of grime commands the stage

    The British rapper showcases his fourth album with a bravura display of old-school brio and and late-career earnestness

February 2024

  • Ghetts.

    Ghetts: On Purpose, With Purpose review – brimming with elegant fury

    The grime veteran proves he’s still on the up with a well-crafted collection of thoughtful, impassioned tracks
  • Wiley pictured in 2021.

    Grime pioneer Wiley stripped of MBE

    Rapper and producer posted antisemitic comments to social media in 2020 and 2021, and was later charged with assault and burglary

    • Club culture
      ‘I am the ultimate UK vocalist!’ Flowdan, the first British MC to win a Grammy

    • Mobo awards 2024: Central Cee tops winners thanks to megahit Sprinter

    • Laneway festival 2024 review – Stormzy electrifies against the odds at Sydney Showgrounds

January 2024

  • So Solid Crew in 2007.

    Where We Come From by Aniefiok Ekpoudom review – a social history of British rap

    This unusual account of a musical movement eschews grand narratives and embraces the small-scale

November 2023

  • Sheffield city centre skyline

    Mobo awards for music of black origin to be held at Sheffield Arena

    Exclusive: Yorkshire city will host event for first time to bridge north-south divide in funding and exposure
  • Theresa Ikoko.

    Theresa Ikoko on Grime Kids: ‘This was not just music. It was a way of life’

    The co-writer of the award-winning film Rocks has written a BBC drama inspired by DJ Target’s hit memoir about the birth of grime. Here she writes about the risks people took in order to be heard
  • Grime Kids (left to right): Juwon Adedokun, Gabriel Robinson, Yus Jamal Crookes, Shanu Hazzan and Tienne Simon.

    TV review
    Grime Kids review – so joyous you’ll want to get out your Discman and blast So Solid Crew

    Set in the early 00s, DJ Target’s book about the birth of grime becomes a fun, infectious look at a group of mates trying to make it in music. It’s as box-fresh as a new pair of Reeboks

October 2023

  • Photograph by David Levene

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Black History Month with DJ Target and Henrie Kwushue – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

    DJ Target joins Chanté to talk about his career in grime and the new series of The Rap Game UK on BBC3. Plus Kiss FM’s Henrie Kwushue’s iconic black British pop culture moments

August 2023

  • Composite: 50 years of hip-hop

    ‘It was freaking bananas!’: rap luminaries on the defining moments from 50 years of hip-hop

  • Jammer in 8 Bar – The Evolution of Grime

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a gripping history of the game-changing grime scene

  • Stormzy at All Points East festival.

    Stormzy review – rapper’s bullish approach pays off with joyous performance

  • rappers on stage

    Why rap and drill are the folk music of today

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