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As a teenager, Denzil Bell felt that his religious beliefs and his love of grime were incompatible – until he heard the lyrics of Ghetts and Stormzy. As Ghetts releases a new LP, Bell explores the relationship between Christianity and grime
Jeffrey Boakye argues that the banning of Blue Story by two cinema chains shows how in the UK black art is held to different standards to everything else, and "a reminder of just how poised society is to reject blackness on the assumption that it can be a corrupting force"
Underground veterans 65daysofstatic are back with a new album diving deep into the state we're now in. Here, Paul Wolinski makes the case for staying inspired and creative under the impecunious trials of late capitalism
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
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