It’s about fucking time. The saviour of UK music has finally arrived and – gasp – he’s not carrying a guitar, although he is armed with a fair share of teen angst. Making So Solid Crew look like the ...
The ecstatic weirdness of “I Luv U” remained intact after all this time, as did the boom of “Fix Up, Look Sharp.” (The passage of time did make “Jus’ a Rascal” sound more like a Dr. Demento novelty ...
If the rise of Jamaican syllable swinger Sean Paul and any number of mush-mouthed Dirty South MCs tells you anything, it’s that pop lyrics don’t need to be intelligible to get over. They never did, of ...
As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. In 2003, Grime was the next stop on what music writer Simon Reynolds calls ...
These are the known knowns: Dizzee Rascal is an MC from Bow, East London, and the UK government calls him Dylan Mills. His debut album, Boy in da Corner, won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize last ...
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As grime progresses through time, those who were once seen as the youthful originators become elder statesmen of the scene. Dizzee Rascal, to whose debut album Boy In Da Corner the genre owes so much, ...
London’s Wireless Festival offered a couple of big grime moments over the weekend. The first was during Drake’s set on Friday, when the rapper brought out Skepta for a short, high-energy medley. The ...
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