Watch our full-length documentary Open Mic

Trip back to the birth of grime as Dizzee Rascal, Scratchy and Kano spit bars in Ewen Spencer’s highly anticipated new film

Music Nation kicks off online today as countercultural obsessive photographer and filmmaker Ewen Spencer takes to the streets where East London’s grime invasion gave birth. In his raw and candid film Open Mic, trace back to the community centres, bedrooms and makeshift club nights where Britain’s last seismic youthquake began.

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