This is 1Xtra’s Rap List, your essential guide to the week’s biggest rap, drill, grime and hip-hop records. If it’s in the culture, it’s on the list. Only the hottest, heaviest and most talked-about ...

Sam Fender, PinkPantheress and more elevated British and Irish music in 2025. In mid 2024, there was talk that the U.K. wasn’t producing future stars nearly fast enough and that its reputation as a ...

Premiere: Avelino & Wretch 32 Discuss ’10 Fits’ That Marked Key Moments In Their Careers Author GRM DAILY Share ...

North London heavyweights Wretch 32 and Avelino come back together to honour one of UK rap’s most influential joint releases, Young Fire, Old Flame. A decade on from its original arrival, the landmark ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

The National Theatre has announced two new special events as part of Indhu Rubasingham’s first season as director. Musician Wretch 32 will make his National Theatre debut in the Olivier theatre with ...

31-year-old British rapper Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo, known by her alias Little Simz, released her sixth studio album at the beginning of June. Celebrating emotional vulnerability, the album ...

It’s a topic she returns to on at least two other tracks on the album, going into quite some detail about her sense of betrayal and broken trust and the impact of this on her sense of self and ...

Wretch 32's sixth studio album, HOME?, is a sweeping, genre-blending meditation on identity, belonging and cultural memory. Drawing on a mix of grime, Afrobeats, reggae and soul, the North London rap ...

Wretch 32’s “Home?” album blends Afrobeat and grime with raw reflections on identity, migration and what it means to belong. The North London wordsmith doesn’t hold back on Home?, released Friday (May ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sense of political frustration: Wretch 32 - Frank Fieber Did you ever expect to hear a grime rapper busting rhymes about ...