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If Only You Knew: Grime & Drill For November Reviewed By Aaron Bishop

Dizzee Rascal

Don't Gas Me EP

Dizzee Rascal Tongue N Cheek Reviewed Track By Track

Articles 11

Low Culture Essay

A History Of Grime In Three Objects: Music, Memories And Everyday Life

In this month's subscriber only essay, academic and author Joy White uncovers the forgotten stories and continuing vitality of grime through a deep delve into her personal archive
Baker's Dozen

E3 Worldwide: Dizzee Rascal’s Favourite Albums

As Dizzee Rascal releases his first album since 2017, he guides Aaron Bishop through the songs that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from being the only black kid playing Nirvana on the estate to smoking with Snoop Dogg.

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 5: So Solid Crew’s They Don’t Know

The Low Culture series of essays written under lockdown continues with Ben Cardew taking a forensic look at So Solid Crew's debut album
Books

Grime Scene Investigation: Dan Hancox On Inner City Pressure

tQ meets Dan Hancox, author of Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, in a Peckham Rye pub to talk about grime's phenomenal resurgence and the increasingly bleak state of London
Black Sky Thinking

The Poet Laureate Is Up For Renewal: Could Grime Be The Answer?

Jeffrey Boakye was going to write us a piece on why Mercury-winner J Hus ought to be the next British Poet Laureate but, halfway through, he realised that a movement, not an individual, might be deserving of the sack of sherry
A Quietus Interview

Not Pleading The Fifth: Dizzee Rascal Speaks

Laura Snoad travels to Dirtee Stank Studios in South London to speak to Dizzee Rascal about his new album The Fifth, southern rap and the London riots
Art

Straight Out Of East London: Rinse FM’s FWD>> Thinking Art

Rory Gibb investigates a retrospective exhibition of the pirate-not-pirate station's last ten years of design and photography
Black Sky Thinking

My (Half) Life Of Grime By Ben Myers

Country Squire Ben Myers casts his mind back to his Peckham days ten years ago and remembers how grime collided with his life. Photograph by Simon Wheatly
Black Sky Thinking

Eazy Eavis – Glastonbury Finally Embraces The Urban

Melissa Bradshaw didn't think Glastonbury was for her... until the sun-blissed 2010, when Snoop, Joy Orbison and Hyperdub ruled the parched fields. Images thanks to Georgina Cook.
Black Sky Thinking

Wiley: Eskiboy’s Dalliance With An Electro-Dance Alliance

This week saw the first play of Wiley's new single with Chew Fu. 'Take That' meddles with electro; but is he already too far behind Dizzee, asks Tom Thurgood?
Black Sky Thinking

Is The BBC The Enemy Of Hip Hop?

Last week amongst the detritus thrown at UK rapper Lethal Bizzle by the audience at Download was a banana skin. Forget about this though - a bigger problem facing UK hip hop stars, argues rapper/writer Adam Narkiewicz is the media itself

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 7

Baker's Dozen

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA
Baker's Dozen

More Than Entertainment: Moses Boyd’s Favourite Music

Following the release of his Dark Matter album, London jazz scene mainstay Moses Boyd guides Michael Appouh through the music that shaped it, from N*/E/*/R*/D to Dizzee, Jeff Buckley and hymns of praise
Baker's Dozen

True Pairings: Tom Fleming’s 13 Favourite Albums

Former Wild Beast Tom Fleming, who's just released his excellent debut album as One True Pairing, picks the 13 records that shaped him, from Tool and Def Leppard to Scott Walker and Joanna Newsom
Baker's Dozen

Vibrations: Roll Deep Man Riko Dan On His 13 Favourite LPs

The grime veteran has a varied musical history, and his 13 selections across rap, soul and dancehall are proof.
Baker's Dozen

Beat Codes: Spoek Mathambo’s Favourite Albums

Spoek Mathambo gives Lior Phillips a tour of his record collection, crossing continents between the music of his South African homeland, American rap, and British new wave
Baker's Dozen

‘Snake Hits: Frank Carter’s Favourite Albums

Frank Carter of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes is one of the nicest men in all rock - here he sits down with Patrick Clarke to discuss the music that has shaped his life
Baker's Dozen

Unresolved And Discordant: Pearson Sound’s Favourite Albums

With his debut album released this week, the Hessle Audio producer talks Lauren Martin through his top 13 formative records ahead of his appearance at the Bloc weekender

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