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…