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In politics, the 2017 campaign #Grime4Corbyn harnessed rappers’ clout, encouraging young people to back the then-leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. “Grime Stories” was designed as a ...
The strong and sometimes harsh delivery of UK accents has barred grime rappers from truly crossing over to the states. I remember thinking, as far back as 2003 or 2004, Dizzee Rascal being the ...
A British orchestra is teaming up with two UK grime artists in a bid to encourage more young listeners to get interested in classical music. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO ...
“We’ve been shut down for many years.” Buck was right. British rappers and grime artists had long been marginalised: overshadowed by their transatlantic counterparts, demonised by ...
Rap star Chip has reignited his five-year feud with Stormzy after the Grime legend's controversial BRIT win. Stormzy, real name, Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., stunned the music industry ...
CHIP is a British grime artist who has made a big name for ... In March 2020 he announced a surprise album with fellow rappers Skepta and Young Adz. Insomnia debuted in at number three in ...
And as much as there are probably quite a few rappers who would cite Wiley as an influence, he hasn’t released any ‘rap’—but without him and the grime world he created, where would most ...
But what about British rappers? First, this was a hard list to ... With more than a twenty-year career as a Grime artist, Skepta is still impossible to ignore if you are a fan of Black British ...
Skepta believes the doors Drake and Kendrick Lamar once kicked open are being shut on other rappers in the wake of ... once signed a deal with the British Grime icon’s Boy Better Know label ...
“Rappers coming from Memphis ... one that combines England’s hometown signature grime with drill, a bass-heavy rap subgenre that blew up in Chicago in the early 2010s. The London rap scene ...