It’s about fucking time. The saviour of UK music has finally arrived and – gasp – he’s not carrying a guitar, although he is armed with a fair share of teen angst. Making So Solid Crew look like the ...

The ecstatic weirdness of “I Luv U” remained intact after all this time, as did the boom of “Fix Up, Look Sharp.” (The passage of time did make “Jus’ a Rascal” sound more like a Dr. Demento novelty ...

In addition to bringing UK Garage to New York with a DJ EZ set a few weeks ago, MoMA PS1's 2014 Warm Up series provided an unprecedented, last-minute grime set by Skepta and Jammer last Saturday.

The controversial influencer-turned-boxer praised the now-viral sketch. In 2003, Grime was the next stop on what music writer Simon Reynolds calls the hardcore continuum – British music’s ongoing ...

Five years ago Dylan Mills, then 18, emerged as Dizzee Rascal with the groundbreaking debut album "Boy in Da Corner," a collage of cockney slang, Jamaican patois, electro-industrial beats, dubbed-out ...

1Xtra Salutes one of the UK's most influential artists, Dizzee Rascal. Celebrating the journey of a true pioneer. From the raw, groundbreaking sound of early grime classics like I Luv U, Fix Up, Look ...

Dizzee Rascal might be just a guest verse or two away from breaking into the American rap charts, but he's equally promising as a refraction of hip-hop's psychogeographical shadow. Rascal hails from ...