As last month’s BRIT awards were overrun with speeches celebrating youth work, and Netflix’s Adolescence warns of increasing youth violence, Dazed speaks to four artists and youth mentors on how music outreach can shape Britain’s future
Apr 14, 2025
Bringing a more thoughtful approach to the grime genre, Jawnino’s debut mixtape 40 is in a lane of its own. To celebrate this release, he takes a walk down memory lane with close friend and Rye Lane star Vivian Oparah
May 03, 2024
Photographer Simon Wheatley has been shooting grime’s brightest stars for decades. Here, he shares the secrets behind his favourite images
Mar 25, 2022
It’s time to educate yourself and take action as anti-semitism continues to permeate pop culture, from British politics to Wiley’s troubling Twitter tirade
Jul 30, 2020
Stormzy’s new track follows Wiley’s ‘Eediyat Skengman 2’
Jan 09, 2020
The stalwarts of grime continue their beef
Jan 07, 2020
January’s best new releases, including Migos making culture, The xx’s boldest and brightest pop moment yet, and a victory lap by grime pioneer Wiley
Feb 02, 2017
The album that he says will probably be his last is being released in the midst of grime’s resurgence, one that he hasn’t been a part of – now could be his final chance to mark his territory as the undisputed king
Jan 12, 2017
In 2011, Dazed interviewed grime superstar Wiley in the run up to his hotly anticipated comeback to talk fame, family and money
May 07, 2016
Skepta, Stormzy and Dizzee are the subjects of a series of impressionistic oil paintings that see them reimagined as historic British noblemen and officers
Dec 01, 2015
Vans Eley Kishimoto Collaboration
With tracks this electrifying, no wonder Kanye and Drake are waking up to the London genre
Jul 21, 2015
Led by sportswear rebels Les Benjamins, an upcoming generation are forging a new legacy for the historic city
Mar 27, 2015
The Wiley Graduate Centre? Sounds good to us
Jan 28, 2015
From the heyday of Channel U to Tinchy's Chuckle linkup, we look at British music's last great youthquake in 26 letters
Nov 05, 2014
Rewind to the mid-noughties with the key players of Grime and the style story of the east London underground