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Stefflon Don

June 2024

  • Stefflon Don

    Stefflon Don: Island 54 review – seamless summer playlist

    This long-awaited debut uses dancehall as a springboard into global styles, from electropop to South African amapiano

November 2023

  • Not subtle … Chase and Status.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Chase and Status: 2Ruff Vol 1 review – resurgent drum’n’bass duo rev a little too hard

    These collaborations with next-gen producers and vocalists are dominating the charts and have rowdy charm, but as a full record they leave you gasping for air

June 2023

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Glastonbury 2023 composite image showing (from left) Weyes Blood, Stefflon Don, Fatboy Slim, Thundercat, Jake Shears, and Becky Hill

    ‘People complained that I had my ass out’: all-star Glastonbury veterans advise festival first-timers

    The likes of Fatboy Slim and Sophie Ellis-Bextor are used to the mud and madness, but Cat Stevens, Rick Astley and others are Glasto virgins. We pair them off to discuss what to expect

March 2023

  • Luis Fonsi, El Chombo, Daddy Yankee

    Can you copyright a rhythm? Inside the reggaeton lawsuit that could shake the pop world

    Two dembow progenitors are suing superstars including Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee – in a case that also names Justin Bieber – claiming that they deserve credit for birthing the genre

December 2022

  • ‘The island is me’ … Stefflon Don.

    2023 culture preview
    Stefflon Don: ‘That’s what it is to be an artist – you’ve always gotta evolve’

    She’s produced tracks with everyone from Skepta to Sean Paul to Nile Rodgers. This year, the UK rapper releases her long-anticipated debut album, Island 54. What took her so long?

June 2022

  • Diana Ross on stage singing

    Diana Ross, Queen and Lin-Manuel Miranda to play Party at the Palace

    Saturday evening’s three-hour event at Buckingham Palace will include musical theatre and pop stars

September 2020

  • L-R: J Hus, Stefflon Don, Dizzee Rascal.

    J Hus, Stefflon Don and Dizzee Rascal: Rated awards celebrate black British music

    J Hus won album of the year for Big Conspiracy while Dizzee Rascal took the legacy prize at the fifth annual GRM Daily awards

June 2019

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    This week's new tracks
    Tracks of the week reviewed: Stefflon Don, Freddie Mercury, Zara Larsson

    We’ve got some Auto-Tuned phone vex, a rediscovered track nobody asked for, and possibly this year’s feelgood hit of the summer

August 2018

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    Pass notes
    Stefflon Don – how the rapper's new video taught a private school a lesson

    The Mobo award-winner’s new video has been filmed at London’s Mill Hill School. Featuring spliffs in the dorms, it has left the governors asking staff to see them after class

March 2018

  • Stefflon Don.

    Stefflon Don review – the rapper swaggering to the top

    Trinity Centre, Bristol
    Fuelled by musical versatility and a bold stage presence, the grime star from Hackney seems poised for global success

April 2017

  • Ringleader … Stefflon Don in London in February.

    Stefflon Don review – a magnetic presence, when she's actually on stage

  • ‘Wit and ferocity’: Stefflon Don, aka Stephanie Allen.

    One to watch
    Stefflon Don: ‘I’m not going to compromise, or not say what I want’

January 2017

  • Kitty Empire

    Why pop’s future is black and British

    Kitty Empire
    Ray BLK’s triumph in the BBC’s Sound of 2017 poll underlines the dominance of UK R&B
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