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🚨 CALLING ALL GRIME FANS! 🚨 . The full line-up for our Grime 3.0 showcase at SXSW London has officially landed! 👀 . Come down and witness the future ✨ . 🗓️ Wednesday 4th June, 2025.📍Strongroom Live Room, Shoreditch.⌚️ 2pm-11pm. 🔗
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Young love filming on set for the UK cult classic 'Kidulthood' ❤️🎬. 📸: Simon Wheatley
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HERITAGE: Watch @Santandave1 open up about a painful moment in his life, in this fierce freestyle for @we_r_blackbox, 2015
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Cleo Sol captivates a sold-out Radio City Music Hall in NYC with the healing tones of “Know That You Are Loved” 🌹
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Congratulations to Dr Akala on receiving an Honorary Doctor Of Arts award from Oxford Brooke’s University! 🎉
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An impromptu D Double E and Mak 10 set on the streets of East London = a grime kid’s dream 💫
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HERITAGE: Skepta, Stormzy and more roll deep on-stage with Kanye West in this iconic performance that marked a shift in 🇬🇧 x 🇺🇸 music relations, 2015.
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Chip is truly our grime saviour ✨. Last night saw Chip set the stage for his sold-out 'Grime Scene Saviour' show. 📹: @hyperfrank . It was difficult to condense an evening of reloads, riddims and joy into 3 minutes, but these are a few highlights from the London event to get
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Stormzy takes a stand against racism!. As Austria's Snowbombing festival release a statement to explain Stormzy's sudden cancellation, the young pioneer took a stand and accused the festival's security of targeting his team with racial-profiling and were physically aggressive.
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J Hus has been setting pace and carving out his own lane since he emerged 💫 . 🔗
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Metalheadz never looked down on jungle’s roughneck side—it simply chose to expand on it, pushing the sound into heady, Afro-futurist terrain. 🔗
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HERITAGE: Birmingham's @Jaykae10 lights up this @mrvirgoofficial production for this @JDZmedia freestyle, 2013
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HERITAGE: Watch @Wretch32’s family reflect on their hopes for their young prodigy during the struggle to rebuild the community after the Broadwater Farm uprising, on Channel 4's 'Scenes From The Farm', 1988
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HERITAGE: @MoTheComedian does hilarious impressions of @officialgiggs, @JmeBBK, @TheRealGhetts and more, 2010
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HERITAGE: Before he was the content-creator king that he is today, @poetscorneruk was shelling on grime alongside @SkribzSt in this Channel U gem “Never Gonna Blow”, 2008 ⚡️.
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Specs delivers 🌪️ galore. YouTube and social media star @specsgonzalez jumped on the mic last night at @OfficialChip's relaunch of his classic mixtape, ‘League Of My Own’, to remind everyone of his lyrical skills 🏆. 📹: @hyperfrank
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If we cancel Wiley, we need to cancel Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and the rest with the same level of anger and immediacy. 🔗
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Meet @CharleneWhite & @Nadine_Writes, two British-Jamaican women (and cousins) on the frontline of UK news media ✨ . 🔗
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Akala speaks on the facts surrounding knife crime in the UK.
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HERITAGE: @Skepta and @officialgiggs connect North and South London on this 🔥 street anthem, “Look Out”, 2009.
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HERITAGE: No one was expecting this during Misteeq's "One Night Stand" performance at the @BRITAwards, 2002.
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HERITAGE: @PotterPayper flies the flag for UK rap in this fierce freestyle for @grimeblog, 2013
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HERITAGE: Watch the late Esco 'Big' Bars effortlessly drop this historic freestyle loaded with 🔥, 2006
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HERITAGE: Shadrack And The Mandem had the comedy game on lock when they dropped "Guns And Pork", 2010.
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HERITAGE: Revisit this venomous freestyle from @Skepta during his lyrical war with Ghetts on @djlogansama's Kiss 100 show, 2008
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HERITAGE: @KayEwumi and @ZezeMillz create comedy gold in this scene from the original 'Hood Documentary', 2016
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Roll Deep laid the foundations for most of today's grime MCs. Here are 10 tracks to prove it:
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HERITAGE: @DJSemtex brings together @JColeNC and @OfficialChip to freestyle over "Hello Good Morning", 2010
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HERITAGE: Revisit @poetscorneruk's grime days in this classic Channel U video "Never Gonna Blow" with @officialskribz, 2008
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Boy Better Know's "Too Many Man" was released 10 years ago today 🎉. The @Skepta-produced track addressed the unbalanced man-to-woman ratio at a lot of raves 🕺🏽💃🏿🕺🏽🕺🏿
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🇬🇧🔥 UK & Trinidad link up 🔥🇹🇹. Digga D and Yung Bredda go back to back in this epic new freestyle session. ➡️ @Optimusprott
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A very special message from Cadet's mother at her son's tribute today 🌹 ..[via @MimShaikh_]
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HERITAGE: Watch the reaction @Griminal and @DevlinOfficial create as they lay down bars during F*ck Radio 3, 2006.
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'Blacklisted' sparked Skepta's freedom from chasing the mainstream and fully reconnected the Tottenham MC with the scene that championed him. 🔗
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HERITAGE: Vybz Kartel and Mavado clash live on stage at Sting in Jamaica, a format that inspired grime culture and beyond, 2008.
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HERITAGE: Pay As U Go and So Solid unite to deliver a rapid-fire barrage of lyrics at Alexandra Palace, 2001
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HERITAGE: Before the success of "London" and "Advice", silky-voiced @DenoDriz was capturing "Wavy" moments like this in the playground, 2016
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King Daddy Freddy 👑. Then and now 🎤💥
HERITAGE: Witness Daddy Freddy break his own record for the most syllables in 60 seconds on 'Record Breakers', 1989.
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HERITAGE: @Skepta and @officialgiggs connect North and South London on this 🔥 street anthem, 2009
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HERITAGE: R&B trio Loose Ends help put Croydon on the map with their hit single "Hangin' On A String", 1985.
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HERITAGE: Bam Bam unleashes nothing but hardcore rap energy in this classic freestyle for @KennyAllstar's 'Voice of the Streets', 2018
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HERITAGE: The Streets' "Fit But You Know It" gets a cheeky grime refix from @TheRealKano, @TinchyStryder and more, 2004
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The word 'BAME' needs to leave our collective lexicon with haste. We need to kill it with fire and put it in the bin where it belongs: 📝: @DanielleDASH
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Grime Gran’s impression of D Double E is seriously iconic 🎯🤣
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HERITAGE: Skepta and Stormzy go back to back in this epic @djlogansama set via @boilerroomtv, 2015
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Akala breaks down how the reporting on youth violence is being used to repackage ignorant and racist stereotypes. 🗣.
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Gospel drill artists need to find another way, says @GuvnaB. ⛪. Mimicking people's real-life situations is disrespectful, both to the rappers and to the man upstairs:
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.@Plastician and @Skepta’s “Intensive Snare”, released in 2007, has lived to see classic status—a true UK underground anthem 💎 . 🔗
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David Vance, Katie Hopkins and Nigel Farage have not experienced the same level of anger from the public as Wiley. Why is that? 🤔. 🔗
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R.I.P. Ruff Sqwad and grime legend, DJ Scholar 🕊🤍 We send our condolences and prayers to his family at this time.
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HERITAGE: @Klashnekoff's cult classic street anthem "Murda" is one of the most important rap tracks to come out of the UK, 2003.
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HERITAGE: @Diddy breaks down why the U.S. music industry should be more open-minded while backstage with @Skepta and @OfficialChip, 2011
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Before Stefflon Don, Ms Banks and Lady Leshurr, there was Ms. Dynamite:
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HERITAGE: So Solid Crew grace 'Top Of The Pops' with their breakthrough track "Oh No (Sentimental Things)", 2000
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HERITAGE: Revisit @DevlinOfficial's "London City", a Channel AKA favourite that captured the beauty of a night out in the capital, 2010
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HERITAGE: Skinnyman's skilled storytelling on "Council Estate Of Mind" captured the realities of living in poverty in the UK, 2003.
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HERITAGE: @RiskyRoadz captures @OfficialChip taking on Lil Nasty and more during the fifth installment of 'F*ck Radio', 2007
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Meet @Stalk_Ashley, the Jamaican-born singer/songwriter blending R&B with dancehall to great effect 💫. 🔗
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