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Mr ShaoDow: How to sell 10,000 CDs completely independently
It feels good to know that as an independent artist I've managed to achieve on my own; what some artists with a whole label and team of people aspire to do.
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Launchpad Records are taking off
Back in 2004, following the release of Wiley’s debut album Treddin’ on Thin Ice and Dizzee Rascal’s semi-seminal Boy in Da Corner the previous year, a young grime fan named George Quann-Barnett...
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Dexplicit: The Dex Files and #ThatBassLife are coming and Pow ‘came out of...
Dexplicit plans to release twelve instrumental EPs over the next 12 months, with the first coming out at the end of February.
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Big Narstie: The ‘lighter’ and funnier side of grime
“If I made a song in pink boxer shorts and green gloves called Sexy Girl and got a number 1 the whole fucking grime scene would be in pink boxer shorts making a f****** remix.”
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Interview with Tre Mission: Grime going global
Grime legends Chronik and Wiley recently featured on the gold-selling album of a Polish rapper named Popek, while shows in Prague and Croatia are rapidly becoming as important to UK MCs as summertime...
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Interview with Frisco ‘I wanted to step up the levels because I’m getting...
In September 2006 Logan Sama’s Kiss FM grime show played host to a series of dubs from two of the scene’s biggest crews, The Movement and Boy Better Know, these dubs went on to be released as a...
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Interview with Kozzie, the young veteran
Lewisham MC Kozzie may be young, but when he speaks about his experiences in the grime scene you would be forgiven for thinking you were talking to one of the genre’s veterans
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Interview with Riko Dan: Clashing is good for the youngers, but why are...
One of the more unfortunate recipients of Riko’s wrath was Demon, an East London MC best remembered for his verse on Pow! or his song Armshouse. “Yeah, he disappeared after that” Riko tells me,...
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Interview with JME: The grime artist rewriting the rulebooks
In the last year alone, JME has won the Lord of the Beats producer contest, featured on a top 3 hit alongside Wiley and Skepta with Can You Hear Me? and been named as one of the UK’s most influential...
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Interview with Jammer: A chat about Lord of the Mics with grime’s elder...
Big H, who was due to appear on Lord of the Mics 4 until his opponent, Scratchy, pulled out. “H was going to do it but then Wiley paid Scratchy 10 grand not to clash,” he tells me.
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Interview with Big H: Behind the scenes of Fire And Smoke
“Grime ain’t about glorifying violence and drugs, it’s about documenting what’s actually happening. The reason I write about violence and drugs is because I’ve got nothing else to write about”.
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Interview with Justin Clarke: His evolution from Ghetto to Ghetts
There’s no introduction needed, Justin Clarke is one of grime’s most interesting characters. An East London MC with unparalleled natural talent and a Jekyll-and-Hyde-style split personality; he has...
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