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

Waterworks Festival © Photography by Jake Davis (www.hungryvisuals.co.uk)

New festival Waterworks to launch in east London this summer

Ben UFO, Sherelle and Eris Drew will play at the event’s inaugural edition

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Novelist, Snapped Ankles and more announced for Sound City Ipswich 2019

Sound City Ipswich has unveiled its full line-up for 2019

Little Simz & Novelist © Daniel Regan

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

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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

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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…