Lest there be any doubt, 2015 was a very good year for UK rap fans. Aside from the grime renaissance, the Section Boyz and 67 ...

Sasha Keable has shared her new single, "Tai Chi". Recorded between London and Los Angeles, "Tai Chi" is Keable's first ...

The track was first released last month as part of her recent Love Is A Kingdom EP, a more intimate and pared-back counter to ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, it's been a whole decade since Wretch 32 and Avelino went toe-to-toe on their joint album, Young Fire, Old Flame. To mark the occasion, the duo are back with a 10th anniversary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some moments stay with you. In 2014, for example, after a lifetime spent dreaming of watching a live professional cricket game in India, I found myself sat in an auto-rickshaw in Mumbai traffic, my ...