Add a collaboration with Drake on the viral hit “Which One”, and you have a foundational year for the man from West London. From one side of the “Sprinter” to the other, Santan Dave also made his long ...

Upon discovering Chidera Eggerue, also known as The Slumflower, it’s not hard to be pulled into her orbit. In person, Eggerue is as bubbly as her tweets of affirmation and body positivity suggest. Her ...

My first and only Wireless Festival was back in 2013, a glorious peak for my evolving rap fandom. Not only did I see a then-ascending A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz perform ...

As we all delve into the BBC’s captivating new drama series, ‘Champion’, TRENCH meets the cultural powerforce behind it. We explore how showrunner Candice Carty-Williams’ love of UK garage and seminal ...

Top Of The Pops on Christmas Day isn't quite the institution it once was, but in the late '90s it was still a pretty massive deal in a lot of households. It wasn't just to see the Christmas No. 1, it ...

In the year 2000, UK garage was at the epicenter of British underground music and culture. Anywhere and everywhere—from the block to the barbershop—you couldn’t walk past a corner of London where the ...

Now in full swing, The Block Report's freestyle series, Staircase Smoke, reveals the third episode in the series, this time featuring North London's J4MZ on a production from Dave Lewis. Staying true ...

Sounds Like: “In terms of genre, I don’t know; I have struggled with that for a while. I think with the music that’s out now, I guess it would fit in the category of soul, maybe R&B at a push. I don’t ...

In case the music didn’t make it obvious, CASISDEAD has seen some shit. Over the course of 15-plus years, the man originally known to grime superfans as Castro Saint went from pirate radio to mixtapes ...

If it was the February drill heater “Year Of The Real” that first alerted you to the powerful tone of Manchester rapper Meekz, you’d be forgiven for assuming he was one of the genre’s staples, such is ...

To be truthful: at first, I was a fan of Trap Lore Ross’ work. Stumbling across a video assessing the rise and fall of Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, the young YouTuber from Bognor Regis ...

A little while back, in last year’s blue-sky summer, Youngs Teflon and I sat in an office block kitchen. Lunchtime had petered out into late afternoon and the room had run quiet. Ceramic plates dried ...