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Melz: ‘I come with this conscious, political edge’

My Element: Built by Grime — Ahead of the release of Huck’s new film on UK grime culture, we catch up with Melz – the maverick south London MC balancing viral Stormzy parodies with revolutionary race equality campaigns.

  • Music
  • Grace Shutti

What happened when Dizzee Rascal performed Boy in Da Corner last night

Sweet like Tropicana — Dizzee Rascal performs his debut 2003 album end-to-end at London's Copper Box Arena, for a special Red Bull Music Academy show.

  • Music
  • Gabriela Helfet

Snowy: The MC leading Nottingham grime’s conquest of the UK

Notts is wild — Nottingham’s hardest working MC is helping to build the foundations for a new generation of grime artists dragging the spotlight away from London.

  • Music
  • Alex King

The photographer documenting exclusive UK music subcultures since the 90s

Part of a scene — A natural affinity for music and clobber gave northern soul boy Ewen Spencer access to the most exclusive of British subcultures.

  • Photography
  • Ewen Spencer

Video: The rise of grime in the United States

Spitting bars across the Atlantic — Grime's biggest artists brought their UK sound to Austin, Texas last month. Watch this mini-documentary and see everything that went down at SXSW, with Skepta, Lethal Bizzle, Stormzy, and more.

  • Culture
  • Jason Nicco-Annan

A trip down memory lane with Kano, progenitor of a distinctly London sound

More than grime — He made a name for himself in East London’s grime community, but Kano carved out a long career by refusing to be defined by any genre.

  • Music
  • Shelley Jones

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