Blackdown

Why "grime?" It could have been any one of a handful of terms - sublow, eski, 8bar or eastbeat - but in 2004 garage's hott...

“Pow! I’m Lethal B/If you don’t know about Lethal B/Betta ask someone quickly” – Lethal B “The spotlight’s on me” – Fumin "I’ll crack...

AIM HIGH 2 Target's new mixtape. No I've not heard it but the radio advert is messy. DJ PINCH "Quawwali" Minimal Purp...

Last night I interviewed Sway, a hot new MC, producer and artist from Hornsey, north London. He’s from the UK hip hop scene but has bucke...

I was in a rural place yesterday with someone far removed from urban culture, and as we walked through the winter sunshine, out of the blue ...

If grime is the voice of angry urban London, dubstep is its primary echo, the sound of dread bass reflecting off decaying walls. To feel...

Wonder and Kano’s Lately has stuck out of 2004 like a sore thumb. It’s not that there wasn’t dissonance in grime before it, but never has i...

Crazy Titch "Gype Riddim" orchestral grime? Crazy Tim on production Kode 9 "All Dem Fuckin People (Subkon/Daddi Gee voca...

... is there no better way to get one?