Dean Blunt drops new London Tonight Freestyle featuring Skepta, A$AP Rocky and Novelist
Blunt leaked the new track via his Youtube channel on Friday
New festival Waterworks to launch in east London this summer
Ben UFO, Sherelle and Eris Drew will play at the event’s inaugural edition
Novelist, Snapped Ankles and more announced for Sound City Ipswich 2019
Sound City Ipswich has unveiled its full line-up for 2019
Little Simz in conversation with Novelist: Call the shots
For our 100th issue, we united three sets of former Crack Magazine cover stars. Here, Little Simz and Novelist touch base on what it means to be self-made
10 Artists on Their Favourite Discoveries of 2018
We asked 10 artists with great taste to pick out something they’ve discovered this year that they think will stay with them long after 2018.
The Albums of 2018: Honourable Mentions
The second half of our albums of the year rundown, ranked from 100-51
Novelist’s album marked as explicit on digital streaming services despite containing no expletives
“I’d encourage you listen to it freely”
Novelist – Novelist Guy
The Lewisham MC’s long-awaited debut has finally landed, building upon grime’s DIY tradition with self-produced beats and self-publishing
The Update: Novelist
As he gears up to release his debut album, we catch up with the Lewisham MC to talk broadening his sound, the explosion of grime and retaining creative control
Novelist to release debut album this year
Novelist Guy lands on 13 April
Listen to a heartwarming conversation between Novelist and his mum
BBC 1Xtra’s Grime Mums is back, also featuring Jammz, Lioness, Coco and Joe Grind Four…
Premiere: Novelist links up with JD. Reid for new track Ready
The North London beatmaker links up with Novelist on the brand new ‘Ready’ – listen to it early, exclusively via Crack
Novelist releases summer track New Path
The hazy tune has been shared today via his own label, MMMYEH Records
Novelist pens powerful essay on the importance of voting, backs Jeremy Corbyn
“The people who get up and vote, they have the power to control the system”
Pro-Corbyn grime posters spotted around London
Grime MCs Jme, AJ Tracey, Novelist and Akala have previously urged their Twitter followers to vote for the Labour leader
Novelist surprise drops new EP, Be Blessed
“Say I wanted to go viral by dropping a project tomorrow. Would you help? RT”
Watch: Novelist shares SBTV Warm Up Session
As part of their #SBTV10 series, SBTV have just shared a new Warm Up Session…
When We Gonna Be Together: The Best Grime Love Songs
A selection of street serenades to soundtrack your Valentines Day, featuring Stormzy, Skepta, Ruff Sqwad and many more throwback classics
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
Run The Jewels added to Snowbombing 2017
Run The Jewels have joined the bill for Snowbombing 2017, heading up their second instalment…
Listen to Elijah & Skilliam’s Grime 2016 compilation now
The latest edition of Elijah & Skilliam’s annual grime compilation is available to buy and…
Flohio is tearing up grime’s template
Growing up in South London, Flohio was engulfed in grime from an early age. Now the young MC reworks the genre’s template for a more experimental vision
Warehouse Project reveal lineup, tickets on sale tomorrow
Manchester’s Warehouse Project returns for 2016 and this year they’ve lined up Moderat, Skepta, Ricardo…
Novelist Has Joined The Labour Party
The MC also Tweeted his support for Jeremy Corbyn and urged the Labour leader not…
Novelist’s new track Snitches is his most experimental yet
Check out the latest addition to Novelist’s newly invented Ruff Sound genre, Snitches, in the…
In GIFS: Field Day 2016
Get a feel for Field Day 2016 with our GIF galleries Though the rain came…
Field Day 2016
The festival suffered from bad weather for the first time in a few years, but sliding around in the mud just felt like part of the fun
Skepta – Konnichiwa
‘Konnichiwa’ is the sound of an artist winning after his genre has been ditched by the industry and stigmatised by the media
Listen to Skepta’s Konnichiwa now
Skepta’s hotly anticipated new album is on Spotify now Last night Skepta played a live…
New Bristol festival Sequences to launch this July
The all-dayer will take place around Motion and showcase three bass music institutions A new outdoor…
Novelist takes a shot at David Cameron on new song, Tax the MPs
The Lewisham grime MC and producer takes Dodgy Dave to task in a hard new instrumental Recent…
Outlook announce full lineup details for 2016
Croatia’s biggest bass-led festival is back for a ninth year. Outlook festival have revealed full…
Novelist drops heavy new instrumental Casper Riddim
Taking a break from rinsing David Cameron via YouTube, Nov returns with an aggressive new…
Watch footage from Novelist’s 19th birthday set
Risky Roadz cyphers return with footage from the grime party of the year Earlier this…
Listen to Novelist’s Self-Produced Break In Your House Freestyle
The former Crack cover star dropped his latest track on SoundCloud on Saturday night Novelist…
Skepta turned up to Novelist’s Radar Radio birthday set
You can listen to the whole set now Former Crack cover star Novelist turned 19…
Field Day announce second wave of acts
Check out who’ll be appearing in London’s Victoria Park on 11 and 12 June London’s…
Radar Radio are broadcasting a Novelist birthday set tonight
Today is Novelist’s 19th birthday, and to celebrate, London’s Radar Radio are broadcasting a set…
Novelist samples David Cameron in Street Politician
“Fuck these feds, they don’t give a damn about the mandem” Recent Crack cover star…
In the Endz:
5 classic grime videos
Tomas Fraser selects five videos that prove grime is as gritty as ever
November 2015 Playlist
20 new tracks we want you to hear
Novelist:
Next Generation
The young Lewisham MC is an unofficial mouthpiece for disenfranchised youth. Tomas Fraser looks towards a legacy with grime’s hardest working newcomer
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
Watch Novelist & The Square’s Black Cab Session
The Lewisham grime collective perform Lewisham McDeez with their former leader Following this week’s announcement…
Novelist releases freestyle in new video
Watch the Lewisham MC smash out a few bars on his drive
Novelist has left The Square
The grime MC tweeted about his decision to leave the group earlier It looks like…
Channel 4’s Four to the floor music programme is back
The alternative music show includes performances, documentary excerpts, animation and more. The programme’s first series…
Sónar: Day One Report
Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona | 18 June
Mumdance added to Field Day line-up
It’s been a big year for the producer so far, and now he’s just been announced…
In GIFs: Lords of The Manor
We sent one of our favourite photographers to document the chaos at King’s Weston House….
Lords of the Manor
On Easter bank holiday weekend, Crack joined forces with Red Bull Music Academy to host…
Mumdance X Novelist: minimalism in the ends
Deleting the presets and calibrating a new wave