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SCORCHER, WHEN THE FIRE STARTS TO BURN

He did time. He came back with a MOBO, a new mantra and an album called All Dorks Must Die - Scorcher isn’t here to make nice. He talks the cosplayers ruining UK music culture, The Movement and if Lipsin Ting Part 2 is real, with veteran grime archivist, Hyperfrank.

JAYAHADADREAM

Cambridge-raised rapper and MC, JayaHadADream, is bringing a different perspective to the UK music scene. A MOBO-nominated artist with roots in grime, she came up on Nas' Illmatic, Channel AKA and The Rocky Horror Pcture Show in equal measure.

CEEBO, ENTER THE BLOCCSTAR

From open-mic basements to Baby Keem co-signs, Lambeth’s Ceebo has spent years watching the room. Post-Blair Babies and pre-Bloccstar, he talks to Naz Hamdi about Congolese roots, French detours and what a rapper’s rapper does with a moment like this one.

ONOE CAPONOE

I ask Onoe Caponoe, an artist with an unusually large number of intriguing “unreviewed ” bios scattered across the World Wide Web, most of which mention cat piss in some way.

LAST WORD KESH

KESH OG grime scenester, musician, artist and designer, KESH, on Kanye bust-ups, dream duets with Michael Jackson and why guestlist never stops her buying a ticket...

THE POZZY PARADOX

Talking all things rap with the Bury St Edmunds MC ready to bury any MC...

GARMS + SETS

From a 2009 Manchester dance floor to her dad’s old Blockbuster card, kept like scripture, Garms + Sets founder, Ellie Rousseau, has been documenting the characters, not just the clothes, of inner city UK street culture.

BIB SAMA

If you’re seeking a brief escape from whatever drudgery or horror is currently occupying your headspace, bib sama has you covered.

KENDRA FILMZ

From flowerovlove to N4T, Kendra Filmz has spent her early twenties shooting London’s tastemakers on their way up. Naz Hamdi meets the 21-year-old visual artist quietly changing the frame.

AMEN GYALDEM

Worshipping at the pulpit of Black British music is Amen Gyaldem, a community made up of a devout congregation of Black female disc jockeys and gender non-conforming selectahs coming through to run up riddims across the Big Smoke.

N3

What do three reloads in a row mean? Rising teenage barsman N3 can tell you.