“I think I heard my first grime tracks in the summer of 2004. A buddy brought some really shitty MP3s burnt onto a CD from a trip to London. It was mostly Ruff Squad and some Nasty Crew and a lot of ...

Wiley and Stormzy kicked off 2020 with the most closely watched grime beef in ages. Wiley's "Eediyat Skengman" and Stormzy's "Disappointed" tracks have got fans reminiscing about the halcyon days of ...

There are few gestures of mainstream embrace quite like an invitation to Buckingham Palace. In March, Prince William made Richard Kylea Cowie, better known as the rapper and producer Wiley, a Member ...

“Hoodies All Summer” by London grime artist Kano is unified by its sparse, unconventional production and thoughtful lyricism. Instead of danceable rhythms and blustery lyrics, the grime legend employs ...

It wasn’t Zane Lowe’s first DJ set, but this one had to knock the socks off an entire planet. It was late June, and the former BBC jock had just signed on to Beats 1, the Internet radio station that ...

Grime is the most "significant musical development within the UK for decades", according to the author of one of the first academic studies into the genre. It's as "powerful and disruptive as punk", ...