“This Skepta album is fire! It’s his first one, right?” a friend and hip-hop fan asked me earlier this week. It got me thinking about the unique position the British MC and producer now finds himself ...

LONDON—In a country where the combined ethnic population represents a tiny 8 percent, young black music fans have rarely been the focus of popular-music marketing. Suggested Reading The Story of ...

Wretch 32’s “Home?” album blends Afrobeat and grime with raw reflections on identity, migration and what it means to belong. The North London wordsmith doesn’t hold back on Home?, released Friday (May ...

About fifteen million years ago on the Internet (a/k/a at the beginning of January of this year), my friend Skinny Friedman issued an errant tweet claiming something to the effect of, “Grime is going ...

black british music (2025), the new project from multi-hyphenate Jim Legxacy, tells the story of a U.K. rap scene overspilling its borders as it... During the second night of headlining shows at ...

“Grime.” It sounds like some rogue idea born in the technology-addled brain of William Gibson: music composed on PlayStations and disseminated by pirate radio stations (which serve the same function ...

Bob Vylan, an English punk rock and grime duo, is under investigation by British authorities after the pair rocked a politically-charged set at this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival. Bob Vylan’s lead ...

Grime is a fast-paced UK genre blending electronic beats, rapid-fire MCs, and urban storytelling, influencing music, fashion, and street culture. Grime, a genre of electronic dance music, is one of ...

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