Shygirl, Skepta and John Glacier star in new Burberry campaign
The latest campaign is new Burberry creative director Daniel Lee’s first for the fashion brand and also features a new Burberry logo
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
Skepta to release new EP All In this week
The five-track project features Kid Cudi, J Balvin and more
New Bottega Veneta digital journal features original music from Arca
A selection of unreleased Arca pieces are premiering via the luxury brand’s Issue 02 zine
Skepta announces new EP All In
The rapper claims he’ll be “ready to move on to the next chapter” once he releases the five-track project
Skepta’s Papi Chulo verse selected for Democratic Party’s promo video
The video celebrates Kamala Harris’ win
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,…
Skepta, A Tribe Called Quest, CHAII and more added to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack
The THPS remake comes with 37 new tracks. The full soundtrack for the remake of…
Kiran Kai shares new Skepta-produced single Passports
The LA via London newcomer teams up with a grime legend on his new single….
Skepta, Young Adz, Chip share new single Waze
The first single from the trio’s upcoming album Insomnia. Skepta, Young Adz and Chip have…
JME announces Grime MC release date, shares tour details
The much-anticipated follow-up to Integrity> lands at the end of November
Headie One – Music x Road
With a little help from the likes of Dave and Skepta, Headie One sets himself apart from the crowd on his latest mixtape ‘Music X Road’
slowthai, Octavian and Chip star in Skepta’s new video for Love Me Not
Skepta enlists an ensemble of old school icons and new wave talent for his Love Me Not house party.
Watch Skepta and Sophie Ellis-Bextor perform Love Me Not for the first time
Skepta and Sophie Ellis-Bextor joined forces at Maida Vale for Skepta’s BBC Radio One session.
EXIT Festival 2019: A musical democracy in a three-hundred-year-old fortress
Across three days EXIT festival hosts every genre imaginable across 21 stages, all housed within a 17th-century fortress.
Skepta drops COLORS session
Fresh from releasing his fifth studio album, the UK legend performs ‘No Sleep’ in the COLORS Berlin studio wearing a ABAGA VELLI space suit
Jorja Smith, Skepta, Octavian and The Black Madonna announced for Field Day 2019
The London festival will move to a new location in Enfield’s Meridian Water on 7-8 June
Wiley sends for Dizzee Rascal in new track Flip the Table
Wiley’s long-running beef with Dizzee Rascal has boiled over on a new diss track
Wiley blasts Skepta and Dizzee Rascal in rant, calls them “paigons”
The self-proclaimed godfather of grime wasn’t too pleased about the two linking up for a track
Skepta shares image of baby scan
The UK grime artist appears to have announced he’s becoming a father
Skepta and Wiley are credited as composers on Kanye West’s ye
The full credits for the three albums released from Kanye West’s Wyoming sessions have now…
D Double E drops new Skepta-featuring video Nang
Two figures from the UK grime scene collide in a new three-minute visual
Skepta, SZA and N.E.R.D. are heading to Lovebox 2018
The London festival is moving to Gunnersbury Park in July
Skepta, Liam Gallagher and Goldie lined up for Parklife 2018
The Manchester festival will return to Heaton Park in June
Skepta and Goldie announce vinyl-only collaboration
Metalheadz have announced details of a special collaborative project from Skepta and label-boss Goldie. Upstart is…
Skepta drops surprise ‘Vicious’ EP featuring Lil B, A$AP Rocky and Section Boyz
To celebrate halloween, Skepta’s shared a brand new EP. Vicious dropped at midnight and features…
Meet the Tottenham MCs fronting Skepta’s SKAir campaign
Hamda Issa-Salwe gets a tour of Meridian Walk from Belly and Shailan – two young MCs who recently starred in the ad campaign for Skepta’s new trainer
Selections: Faze Miyake
Future-proof grime and spacey party music from the London DJ and producer in this exclusive Spotify playlist
Mick Jagger teams up with Skepta for new track England Lost
The new song has been released alongside Gotta Get A Grip
Skepta launches new No Fear Forever collection at Sports Direct
The grime MC’s second clothing line is out now
In Photos: Wireless Festival
Photographer Daniela Monteiro gets snaps of Young Thug, Rae Sremmurd, Skepta and more at the Saturday of the UK’s biggest hip-hop festival
Skepta drops new track Hypocrisy
In which he claims that he turned down an MBE
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…
Makonnen drops new Skepta-produced track Dark Blue
The Atlanta rapper has surprise dropped his new EP today – and Skeps is on it
Skepta announced as Songwriter of the Year by Ivor Novello Awards
The grime MC will be taking home two prestigious awards
Idris Elba slams Tory housing benefits cuts at Skepta charity gig
Skepta played a special show in London last night (4 April) in aid of homeless…
Drake got a photo with his mum and Sade last night
Celebrations were in order last night at the final night of Drake’s mammoth run of…
Skepta, Death Grips and Sampha added to Lowlands Festival 2017
19 new acts have been added to the Dutch festival’s line-up in celebration of their 25th Anniversary
Watch: Skepta drops his new video for ‘No Security’
The British grime MC dances with mannequins, old white men, and in a room of awards for his new clip ‘No Security’
Brits 2017: A continued snub of the black British experience
Last night the #BritsSoWhite backlash reappeared. Bex Shorunke argues that the racial undertones are not imagined here, they are apparent.
Brits 2017: Skepta and Stormzy lost Best Breakthrough Artist to Rag’n’Bone Man and the internet isn’t happy
Uh-oh.
Devlin – The Devil In
Demons are fought and souls are searched on Devlin’s third album, but it’s the insular moments that resonate
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
London turns out for Wiley‘s landmark Roundhouse show
Walking into The Roundhouse, the space already packed by 8pm, the audience a mixture of…
Skepta will perform at the BRIT Awards
Skepta is the latest addition to the lineup for the 2017 BRIT Awards. He’s up…
Aphex Twin, Miguel and Bon Iver announced for NOS Primavera Sound 2017
NOS Primavera Sound have announced the lineup for their sixth edition. Bon Iver, Aphex Twin,…
The Year in Collaborations
Contributors and collaborators from Blackstar, The Life of Pablo, Konnichiwa and more reflect on their part in the year’s biggest releases
Watch Apple Music’s Skepta documentary now
Following the trailer coming out last week, Apple Music’s mini-documentary on Skepta has arrived. Skepta: Greatness…
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…
The Evening Standard reviews Skepta, mistakes reloads for technical difficulties
“not everything went to plan: songs were restarted”
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
Staying In
Because there’s no Space like home…
Skepta’s going on Top of the Pops
The BBC have announced the lineups for their yearly Christmas Day and New Years Eve editions…
Skepta wants to spends his Mercury Prize money on community projects
The Tottenham MC told The Evening Standard that he wants to spend his untouched prize…
Skepta teams up with Section Boyz for Worst
“Theresa knows Britain is mine” Section Boyz dropped a new track featuring Skepta last night…
Listen to Elijah & Skilliam’s Grime 2016 compilation now
The latest edition of Elijah & Skilliam’s annual grime compilation is available to buy and…
A$AP Rocky to debut new material in London this week
The rapper will premiere to new A$AP Mob tracks at a live screen event in…
Elijah & Skilliam announce Butterz Grime 2016 compilation
The Butterz bosses tap Skepta, Kano, Wiley and AJ Tracey for their roundup of the…
Listen to Skepta and Smoke Dawg’s new collab Overseas now
Skepta’s latest transatlantic collaboration sees the UK MC link up with Toronto’s Smoke Dawg Fresh…
One Night with
Lil Yachty
Decked out in a yellow Supreme tracksuit, hip-hop’s alienating newcomer Lil Yachty bounds on to…
MOBO nominations announced
Laura Mvula and Kano both lead with four, while Skepta and Giggs appear on three…
Tory minister claims he likes Skepta, can’t name a single track
Matt Hancock, the Tory minister for culture, claimed “we listen to it in the back…
Skepta has won the Mercury Prize
The UK MC’s album Konnichiwa has beaten the frontrunner, David Bowie’s Blackstar, to win this…
Revisiting our reviews of the 2016 Mercury nominees
If this year’s Mercury Music Award nominees are anything to go by British music has had a particularly fruitful year
Skepta previews new song No Security, listen now
Skepta has teased his first new material since the surprise ILoveMakonnen collaboration Coming Soon via…
Additional support acts announced for Massive Attack Bristol show
A DJ line-up has also been announced for the Clifton Downs festival The full line-up for for…
Skepta announces massive London show for December
Tickets for the Alexandra Palace show will go on sale on 12 August Last night…
Back On Road:
AJ Tracey‘s Transatlantic Takeover
From Ladbroke Grove to Long Island, AJ Tracey is poised to capitalise on the growing appetite for London Talent. Grant Brydon finds him in Queens, NY, taking stock of the hype thus far
David Bowie, ANOHNI and Skepta nominated for Mercury Prize
The nominations are in! The Mercury Prize have announced the shortlist for this year’s award….
Skepta finally got an OVO tattoo in Toronto
Earlier this year Drake got a Boy Better Know tattoo and now Skepta has returned…
Melt! Festival remains a pulse-galloping pacesetter
Ascending one of Ferropolis’s decommissioned excavators, you begin to survey the expanse of Melt! Festival….
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…
Skepta cancels Lollapalooza set due to Visa Issues
It’s not the first time Skepta has blocked from playing in the US. Last year…
Hideout 2016
As we arrived in Novalja – the coastal town on the Croatian island of Pag…
Glastonbury
Festival 2016
taNo man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the…
Skepta, Céon and Makonnen have linked up on ‘Coming Soon’
Coming Soon is a bouncy, tropical track that combines Skepta’s serious flow with Makonnen’s signature…
In GIFS: Field Day 2016
Get a feel for Field Day 2016 with our GIF galleries Though the rain came…
Check out a new zine dedicated to the grime scene
Skepta, Logan Sama, Jammz, Capo Lee and more feature in the black-and-white printed celebration of…
Skepta – Konnichiwa
‘Konnichiwa’ is the sound of an artist winning after his genre has been ditched by the industry and stigmatised by the media
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…
Skepta to celebrate Konnichiwa release with Boiler Room in Japan
Tune in later today to see the grime kingpin lay down some tunes alongside a…
Grime Karaoke announced for Fresh Island
Fresh Island takes place 12 – 14 July at Zrce Beach, Croatia This year’s Fresh…
Skepta announces mini-tour
Tickets are only available to fans who have pre-ordered Konnichiwa Skepta will be hitting the…
6 New Videos You Need To See
Stormzy gets Scary and Skepta trashes a car in this week’s roundup of the best music videos out there
What did Top Boy do for grime?
As Drake and Skepta conspire to bring back Top Boy Ruby Atkin looks back at the series and discusses its impact on the genre that fed its aesthetic
Snowbombing 2016
You’d have to to be a pretty soulless adventurer to not be able to hunt…
Listen to Skepta’s new single Man (Gang)
Konnichiwa drops on 6 May Grime don Skepta has just shared the latest cut from…
Skepta announces Konnichiwa release date
Skepta dropped details of his long awaited album on Instagram It’s been one of the…
Glastonbury reveal full 2016 line-up
Glastonbury Festival have announced the full list of acts set to descend on Worthy Farm…
Bestival unveils another round of new acts
Lady Leshurr, Kano, Goldie, Evian Christ and more have joined the line-up The Isle of…
Skepta announced as ‘Cultural Ambassador’ for Uniqlo
Clothing brand Uniqlo has revealed Skepta as one of six new cultural ambassadors As it…
Drake signs to grime label and collective Boy Better Know
After a surprise performance in London with Skepta and Section Boyz, the rapper announced the…
Field Day reveal new Sunday additions
Head over to Victoria Park this June to see Empress Of, Steve Mason and Mystery Jets…
Skepta unveils Nike collaboration
Skepta posted the first pictures of his new Nike collaboration on Instagram earlier today Grime…
Skepta to headline Berghain this April
The world-conquering Shutdown don will be taking over the techno fortress this Spring One of the…
20 more artists added to Hideout 2016 line-up
The new additions will join Skepta, Stormzy, Seth Troxler and more on the idyllic Zrce…
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…
Plastician to play ten year old Skepta and Plasticman set on Rinse tonight
Tune in to hear a throwback set featuring unreleased dubs from Coki, Skream, Joker, Mr Virgo, Skepta…
Sónar Barcelona announce first names for 2016
Barcelona’s Sónar festival have just shared the first acts on their 2016 line-up Sónar are taking…
Skepta announced for Snowbombing 2016
The breakthrough grime star will be hitting the slopes in April The world’s number one…
Hideout prepares for 2016 outing
The Croatian festival will welcome the likes of Skepta, Stormy and Jamie xx to its sunny shores
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
Red Bull Music Academy share Simple Things Playlist
Looks like Red Bull are getting hyped for Simple Things 2015 With only a week…
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…
Artist Reuben Dangoor reimagines grime stars as historical figures
D Double E, Stormzy and Skepta all feature As a tribute to the grime scene…
Skepta + JME announce headline Brixton show
Novelist, Frisco, Casisdead and Section Boyz will support the December date Grime’s most high profile…
Tabloids are reporting Lily Allen took a swing for Skepta
The incident allegedly occurred backstage at LFW
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
Flow Festival 2015
“We don’t want to be the biggest, we want to be the best.”
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…
Skepta jumps on Jamie XX’s I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
Skepta has laid down bars on Jamie XX’s Summer anthem I Know There’s Gonna Be…
August 2015 Playlist
G-funk is in the air. Dre just casually dropped his first album in 16 years,…
Simple Things unveil new names
Skepta, JME, Savages, Untold, HEALTH and Holly Herndon and more join the lineup
Skepta announces mixtape with Westwood, drops updates on new album
And that Westwood tape is imminent Skepta has got Tim Westwood on board to host his…
Lovebox
Lovebox has established itself as a bastion for vibrant, carefree fun in the centre of…
5 Crack alumni to catch at Lovebox
We’ve provided a handy guide to just a handful of the acts playing who’ve graced the pages of our magazine over the last few years
Drake and Skepta team up for Ojuelegba remix
Following a headline set at Wireless festival and a number of visits to Wimbledon, Drake’s…
ONEMAN drops festival edits
The edits mix Skepta, JME, Young Thug and more ONEMAN has released a stream and…
Jme Integrity> Album Review
‘No label, no PR, no publisher…’ so goes JME’s Twitter bio, ‘no meat, no dairy…
Top 5 Career #SHUTDOWNS of 2015 so far
A run down of 5 careers that have been – literally – shut down
Idris Elba has remixed Skepta’s Shutdown
The Luther actor has dropped a rework of Skepta’s grime banger Idris Elba has decided…
Watch Skepta perform ‘Shutdown’ on Jools Holland
“Mans has never been in Jools Holland when it’s shutdown, eh?” Former Crack cover star…
Stormzy drops new freestyle ‘Shut Up’
The 21-year-old MC spits over a classic beat. Following his appearance at The Great Escape…
Skepta reclaims grime’s history for its true authors
With towering expectations for 2015, the revered MC rises to the challenge