Krept & Konan cover Huck’s new digital issue, focusing on our home city

In a hyper­con­nect­ed dig­i­tal world, where we trans­port our­selves from over­hear­ing con­ver­sa­tions tak­ing place on the New York sub­way to the inside of a celebrity’s kitchen with the drag of a thumb, it’s easy to for­get to take in our imme­di­ate surroundings.

This cul­tur­al shift – cou­pled with sav­age eco­nom­ic forces – has led local jour­nal­ism to a reach cri­sis sta­tus, leav­ing areas with ​“dark spots” and a void of infor­ma­tion or sto­ry­telling that touch­es close to real people’s lives.

At Huck, while we have always told sto­ries from across the globe, Lon­don, our home city, has been the foun­da­tion of every­thing we do. Since we start­ed 19 years ago, east Lon­don has remained our home, and we’re as focused on the peo­ple who we walk past each day as on those we cov­er around the world.

To cel­e­brate the city that has forged us, we’ve put togeth­er a dig­i­tal-only spe­cial mag­a­zine for our Apple News sub­scribers, focus­ing on the best sto­ries of com­mu­ni­ty and cul­ture that Lon­don has to offer. On the cov­er are Krept & Konan – true Lon­don suc­cess sto­ries – who have had to over­come loss and adver­si­ty to become UK rap’s most defin­i­tive dou­ble act.

Then we have Rise Unit­ed, the ESEA+ foot­ball club forged out of pan­dem­ic hate, who are now one arm of a ris­ing burst of Asian cre­ativ­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ty in the UK cap­i­tal, as well as a micro report into London’s queer line danc­ing scene at a time when coun­try music is hav­ing a glob­al renais­sance. We also take read­ers into Hackney’s Phở Mile – a stone’s throw from Huck’s Shored­itch base – and revis­it its his­to­ry of local action, and there’s much more to dive into in the magazine.

Check it out here, and do please fol­low Huck on Apple News+, to make sure the best of our sto­ries from Lon­don and beyond reach­es your feed every day.

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