Nolay‘s pen runs deep. Since her Unorthodox days, she’s been releasing hard lyrics over grime and rap beats. Her latest full length record was released last year – titled ‘III‘ – features thirteen booming tracks with beats from a wide range of producers. She also featured on one of our favourite sets of all time,…
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Eyez is a grime MC from Derby who’s been at it for a while now. There are freestyles of his knocking about on YouTube from as far back as eight years ago, but he started rapping at age eleven. Last year, he released an EP featuring some key names from the burgeoning grime scene in…
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Regardless of what you think to his delivery – Discarda is a true grime original, and his style has surely set the blueprint for a lot of MCs going for the amped up vibe. He’s mainly known for his classic bars that light up a set, but in recent time he’s been focusing on porting…
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Chowerman is an MC from Essex who’s been making music for a while now, and is part of the Over the Edge collective. Last years ‘Balamory‘ falls squarely into the UK Rap canon; while a track like ‘Antisocials‘ is as grime as they come. His last EP ‘Chow Diary’ continues that mixture of sounds, with…
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The evolution of grime is always a hotly debated subject among the scene. Last year, it felt as though every other day the discussion of whether grime is dead was being hurled out on the timeline, and eventually that morphed into ways the sound of grime could evolve. It’s come back around as we take…
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The tag of ‘Grime 2’ has sent purists into a frenzy over the new year. When you tune out from the noise, it’s a way for the artists who orbit the tag to create grime music in their own vision. Calling it a sub-genre would feel at odds with how grime works, while trying to…
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Mayhem NODB and Mystry need no introduction. Two of Birmingham’s finest, the former is best known for his earworm catchphrases and in our opinion – the hardest version of ‘French Montana‘ – which was released on vinyl last year. The latter produces dark grime tracks, most notably ‘Pulse 8‘ and ‘Liff‘. Their latest track is…
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Reloaded Sounds are a brand new label based in Nottingham aiming to release sounds from the underground spectrum. Fork and Knife is a producer from London, his style fitting into the grey area of club music that takes inspiration from grime and funky. His previous records have seen him link up with MCs like SBK…
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FFSYTHO took no prisoners on ‘Bop Through Ya Manor‘, and it was one of our favourite tracks from 2019. With a heavy Filthy Gears beat to back it up, the track was a breath of fresh air to the scene; proving that sometimes there’s no need for a deep topic, hard bars will do just…
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Wiley has been promising the fans of a ‘return to the village’, with an emphasis on physical music and radio shows, perhaps buoyed by the success of JME’s latest album. What we got on New Years Day was him firing out diss tweets to anyone that would listen, but he did at least have time…
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