JME’s Integrity> took grime back to basics
JME’s personality and worldview feels fully formed on ‘Integrity>’. We revisit the album eight years on from its release
Ify Adenuga – mother of Skepta, JME and Julie Adenuga – announces new memoir
Boy Better Know will publish the book in October. Ify Adenuga, the mother of Skepta,…
JME’s Grime MC FM to headline Crack Magazine stage at Love Saves The Day
JME and a host of special guests will top the bill on the Crack Magazine stage at Love Saves the Day this year
JME announces Grime MC release date, shares tour details
The much-anticipated follow-up to Integrity> lands at the end of November
JME spotlights Trump’s error of blaming Obama for Bush’s embassy deal
The grime MC points out that the embassy relocation began under George W. Bush, not Barack Obama
AJ Tracey shares Secure The Bag! tracklist featuring Sir Spyro, Craig David, Denzel Curry
The EP is due out on 6 October
Boy Better Know’s Glastonbury slot was another milestone for grime in the mainstream
Rounding off a monumental weekend for grime and UK rap artists, Boy Better Know headlined…
Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity among the grime scene continues to grow
The Labour leader has received support from JME, AJ Tracey, Novelist and more
JME, Giggs and Damian Marley added to Wild Life Festival
A new round of names has come in for Wild Life Festival, the Brighton event…
JME to appear in Simon Amstell’s new movie about veganism
The grime MC will feature alongside including Martin Freeman, Joanna Lumley and Vanessa Feltz in Amstell’s directorial debut
Watch a trailer for a brand new Skepta documentary
The Beats 1 documentary- Greatness Only– follows the decade-long rise of one of the UK’s…
Skepta takes on Ally Pally with the gang
Hamda Issa-Salwe joins the 10,000-strong crowd for the Tottenham Top Boy’s victorious homecoming
Artist reimagines grime stars as Pokémon cards
Brighton-based photographer Ben Gore has released a peek of his ‘Grimemon’ series including Skepta, JME,…
Listen to Skepta’s Konnichiwa now
Skepta’s hotly anticipated new album is on Spotify now Last night Skepta played a live…
Watch JME show off his shiny Charizard collection
The excitable grime MC waxes lyrical on Pokémon cards in a new video for the…
Simple Things confirm 2016 festival date
The forward-looking festival is set to return to Bristol in October, with ticket registration open…
Tracks Of The Year 2015
We count down the 50 best tracks of the year
In the Endz:
5 classic grime videos
Tomas Fraser selects five videos that prove grime is as gritty as ever
Simple Things 2015: Jme and Skepta
Grime dons Skepta & JME shut down the Academy at this year’s Simple Things Festival…
The 23 moments that defined Skepta‘s biggest year so far
And it’s not over yet
Logan Sama – FabricLive 83
‘FabricLive 83’ is a warts and all collation of glossed up verses and 16 bar whomps that exploits Sama’s bloating black book of MC contacts
Drake’s got a BBK tattoo now
Yes, Drizzy has finally made the eternal commitment to Skepta and JME’s set Inked, permanently,…
Skepta’s been in the studio with Pharrell
While there’s still no news of a Konnichiwa release date, the unstoppable grime MC reveals…
Skepta + JME announce headline Brixton show
Novelist, Frisco, Casisdead and Section Boyz will support the December date Grime’s most high profile…
Elf Kid
If you caught Novelist & The Square at any club or festival this summer, the chances are you heard Elf Kid’s signature track Golden Boy
Skepta’s New Mixtape is Online Now
The grime MC dropped his new tape via SoundCloud this morning In case you missed…
Simple Things adds new names to lineup
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Ruff Sqwad + J-Cush, Hodge, and Tessela are amongst the additions
Skepta has won an AIM Award for Outstanding Contribution
Skepta has been handed the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at this year’s AIM Awards. Skepta…
Simple Things unveil new names
Skepta, JME, Savages, Untold, HEALTH and Holly Herndon and more join the lineup
JME has made a mixtape in 48 hours
There’s a 12-minute ‘making of’ film too While his recent LP Integrity> took him three…
JME is swapping vinyl for Pokémon cards
He’s swapping Integrity> on vinyl for a shiny Charizard JME has got a batch of…
The 12 Best Musicians to Follow on Twitter
The very best of musicians’ thoughts pouring out of their heads and onto the internet
ONEMAN drops festival edits
The edits mix Skepta, JME, Young Thug and more ONEMAN has released a stream and…
P Money – Sounds & Gimmicks
Forget the clean-living that vegan JME attests to – Lewisham grime MC P Money puts…
JME saw Jurassic World and he didn’t enjoy it
Like, at all So JME went to see Jurassic World last night and didn’t rate…
Jme Integrity> Album Review
‘No label, no PR, no publisher…’ so goes JME’s Twitter bio, ‘no meat, no dairy…
Stormzy drops new freestyle ‘Shut Up’
The 21-year-old MC spits over a classic beat. Following his appearance at The Great Escape…
May Playlist
At first, this playlist feels like a dreamy summer soundtrack. With woozy, laid-back material from the…
Skepta reclaims grime’s history for its true authors
With towering expectations for 2015, the revered MC rises to the challenge