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After releasing the EP All In in 2021, Skepta shifted his focus away from rap and towards his burgeoning career in house music, both as a DJ and owner of the label Más Tiempo. He still popped up with the occasional indication that he hadn’t left rap behind entirely, though: last spring, a snippet of a new song went viral, and today you can hear the full version, titled “Gas Me Up.” Produced by Cardo, the single is a glossy celebration of success boosted by Skepta’s oaky, blunt delivery.

Skepta has teamed up with Idris Elba and Odumodublvck to create ‘Jangrova’, the first song from the Tribal Mark soundtrack. Check out the single below.Released yesterday (January 19), ‘Jangrova’ sees Skepta, Idris Elba and Odumodublvck rap in English and Nigerian Pidgin.

Skepta has revealed the line-up for his inaugural Big Smoke Festival this summer – check it out below.The new event is due to be held at Crystal Palace Park in south-east London on Saturday, July 6, and will feature a bill curated by the Tottenham rapper himself. Tickets are available here.Skepta will be performing too, marking his only UK performance of 2024.

Skepta has issued a statement over claims that the artwork for his upcoming new single references the Holocaust.The London rapper is due to release the song ‘Gas Me Up (Diligent)’ on January 26 as the first preview of his sixth studio album, ‘Knife And Fork’.On Monday (January 8), he shared the official cover art for the track, which was created by artist Gabriel Moses. The image depicts a group of men with shaved heads and in matching uniforms.

Skepta has announced details of his new album, ‘Knife and Fork’, his first new studio record since 2019. READ MORE: Skepta – ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’ review Writing on Instagram, the rapper said: “It’s been years since I dropped my last album and I want to thank you for all the love during my hiatus. I’ve seen the messages, tweets and Tik Toks, I’m truly grateful that my music is still resonating with the world, even in my absence.” “I’m happy to announce my next studio album #KnifeAndFork is loading this year, the first single #GasMeUp (Diligent) will be out January 26th.” A post shared by Big Smoke (@skepta)The Tottenham grime legend has released a total of five studio albums so far, most recently 2019’s ‘Ignorance is Bliss’, which included the singles ‘Bullet from a Gun’ and ‘Greaze Mode’.

Skepta has announced the inaugural edition of his one-day music festival, Big Smoke.READ MORE: Skepta – ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’ review The new event will take place in Crystal Palace Park in south-east London on Saturday, July 6 and will feature a line-up curated by Skepta himself.The rapper will choose the acts on two open-air stages, one of which will be hosted by his record label Más Tiempo and platform dance artists.Skepta will also be performing, marking his only UK performance of 2024. The rest of the line-up will be announced in due course.Revealing the news on Instagram live, Skepta said: “I’m gassed to finally announce that Big Smoke Festival is official..I’m so excited, it’s been a wild one to do this.

Skepta has teamed up with Ryder to release a new collaborative EP, ’48 Hours’.Earlier this October, 19-year-old Ryder shared his remix of Skepta’s ‘Konnichiwa‘ deep cut ‘Text Me Back’ to TikTok, called ‘#skeptacore pt. 3’.

Skepta has put out a casting call for actors to play a young version of him in an upcoming project.The grime artist shared the listing from his creative agency Big Smoke Corporation on social media today (October 17), where it states that he’s looking for male actors aged 16-21 “to play a young Skepta”. Those wanting to audition must be based in the UK.The post invites candidates to send their showreels, portraits and other information to the email address listed below.

Skepta has paid homage to Amy Winehouse with his new single ‘Can’t Play Myself (A Tribute To Amy)’ – listen to it below.The Mercury Prize-winning rapper and producer released the atmospheric house track today (October 13) via Más Tiempo/Island. He’d teased the song during various sets over the summer, including at his show at Glastonbury.Clocking in at just over three minutes, the pulsating ‘Can’t Play Myself…’ contains vocal samples from Winehouse’s 2007 single ‘Tears Dry On Their Own’, which features on her classic album ‘Back To Black’ (2006).The sample was cleared by the Amy Winehouse Foundation, according to a press release.

Glastonbury Festival 2023.The Spider will be returning to the Arcadia area for this year’s edition of the festival, which will feature a range of electronic music heavyweights on its line-up.The Chemical Brothers, Skepta, Floating Points, Daphni, Dubkasm, Plastician and more will all play in the spider across the weekend. Find the full list of artists here.Ahead of the festival, Arcadia has announced that it will run entirely on recycled biofuels for the first time, including cooking oil and chip fat.Explaining the initiative, Arcadia co-founder Bertie Cole told DJ Mag: “With the current infrastructure that festivals run on it was clear one of the more efficient ways it could be done is by using a waste fuel to power all those bits of machinery.“But until quite recently, a lot of the biofuels that were available didn’t really have the provenance of components, like some of them had palm oils etc.

Glastonbury festival has been announced, featuring performances from The Chemical Brothers, Skepta and more.The Spider will be returning to the Arcadia area for this year’s edition of the festival, which will feature a range of electronic music heavyweights.Announced earlier today (May 12), this year’s line-up includes acts such as Floating Points, Daphni, Dubkasm, Plastician, Chloé Robinson and Skream, as well as a back-to-back performance between Skepta and Jammer (Más Tiempo). Find the full list of artists here.The most impressive of the newly announced acts, however, is the legendary electronic duo, The Chemical Brothers, who will be performing a DJ set on Friday 23 June.

Skepta is set to launch a new house music label, hosting a launch party as part of KOKO’s first birthday celebrations.The legendary Camden venue reopened last year after three years of restoration and redevelopment.

Run The Jewels, Skepta and Latto among others.According to a report from TMZ Hip Hop, a source close to Gangsta Boo’s estate has confirmed that several prolific names in rap have been secured to appear on the late Three 6 Mafia rapper’s posthumous album.Run The Jewels, Skepta, Latto, La Chat and Crunchy Black will reportedly rap on the album while Drumma Boy, Nick Hook and Run The Jewels’ El-P are set to produce on the record.Gangsta Boo’s former Three 6 Mafia bandmates DJ Paul and Juicy J are “in talks to provide some production heat” alongside Metro Boomin and BeatKing.While a release date for Gangsta Boo’s posthumous album has yet to be confirmed, sources tell TMZ Hip Hop that it is being planned for August 7, which would have been the late rapper’s 44th birthday.Gangsta Boo – real name Lola Chantrelle Mitchell – was found dead at the age of 43 on January 1. While an official cause of death has yet to be announced, sources close to the deceased rapper tell TMZ Hip Hop that Gangsta Boo’s death scene show “narcotics were found on her person and that a fentanyl-laced substance” was involved in the rapper’s death.Gangsta Boo joined Three 6 Mafia when she was just 15, after catching the attention of DJ Paul during a school talent show.

Machine Gun Kelly played a huge Wembley Arena gig last night (October 1) and was joined by special guests Skepta and Yungblud – see footage below.The rapper and singer is currently on the European and UK leg of his ‘Mainstream Sellout’ world tour and hit London on Saturday night.Alongside highlights from his own catalogue, the 28-song set saw Kelly welcome frequent collaborator Yungblud to the stage to perform ‘Acting Like That’ and ‘I Think I’m Okay’.Earlier in the set, Skepta was a surprise guest and performed ‘Praise The Lord’ with the rapper-turned-pop-punk star.See footage of the collaborations below.Aaaaand Skepta and Machine Gun Kelly pic.twitter.com/Q6oXWvd6vG— ali (@Justdip) October 1, 2022Back in August, Kelly pulled out a few tricks for the final show of his North American tour, which took place in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. During the show, the rapper-turned-pop-punk star zip-lined across the entire football field-length of the venue, Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium.

A painting by grime MC Skepta has sold at auction at Sotheby's in London for £81,900 ($94,656), a spokesperson for the gallery has confirmed to The FADER. The piece, titled "Mama Goes To Market," is Skepta's first painting and sold for £20,000 more than its estimated price.

Skepta is auctioning his first foray into the world of contemporary art at Sotheby's in London this month. The grime MC has contributed a painting to a collection he has co-curated specifically for the auction, which takes place in mid-September.

Skepta is set to sell his debut painting as part of a co-curated auction at Sotheby’s in London.The Tottenham MC and producer has partnered with the famed auction house, which specialises in “art and luxury” items, for the latter’s Contemporary Curated series.The auction is set to get underway tomorrow afternoon (September 7), and you can view all of the works in the collection – nine of which have been selected by Skepta – here.Skepta’s painting, titled Mama Goes To Market, is one of the items that will be going up for sale tomorrow, and will be exhibited at Sotheby’s’ New Bond Street galleries this week.Painted by the MC in 2020, a description reveals that Skepta “then took the painting to the graphic artist Chito’s collaboration with Givenchy, where people could bring any item to be transformed with Chito’s signature tag”. Tags by Goldie and the graphic artist Slawn can also be seen on the artwork.A post shared by Sotheby's (@sothebys)Sotheby’s estimate that Skepta’s Mama Goes To Market will sell for between £40,000-£60,000, with bidding set to conclude on September 13.“For me it’s about that beautiful thing of being able to look at a picture and feeling an emotion,” Skepta said about the Contemporary Curated series.

Skepta has opened up about his experience of suffering from stomach-related health issues.The rapper/producer was admitted to hospital last month with an undisclosed illness, per Metro.co.uk. Captioning an image taken from his bed, he asked fans to “say a little prayer for me”.Shortly afterwards, Skepta headed back out on the road to perform at events including Rolling Loud Portugal and Sun Festival 2022.Taking to Instagram Stories yesterday (August 9), the Boy Better Know star shared his experience of dealing with various stomach issues.

Little Simz won the award for Best Female Act and grime legend Ghetts won his first ever MOBO for Best Male Act. Dave won the Album of the Year award for ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’.The ceremony, which was held at Coventry Building Society Arena, saw performances from artists including Ghetts, Pa Salieu, Stefflon Don and Ms Banks, Bree Runway, Potter Payper, Tems, NSG and ENNY.You see the full list of winners here:ALBUM OF THE YEARDave, ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’BEST FEMALE ACTLit

Skepta has performed a freestyle on the video series ‘Plugged In’ by producer Fumez The Engineer.Earlier this week (November 1), Pressplay Media premiered the clip, where the grime legend appeared in a leather racing jacket, black gloves, and a balaclava.Skepta freestyled on a beat produced by Carns Hill, reviving classic verses from past work, including his Jme collaboration ‘Nang’, 2009 track ‘Dark’, and other various freestyle performances.Watch Skepta freestyle on ‘Plugged In’ below.In July,

Skepta has performed ‘Lit Like This’ from his latest EP ‘All In’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.The British grime legend delivered a rendition of the cut from his EP released in July for the popular US talk show last night (October 28). The performance sees Skepta walking around an office, rapping to workers and at one stage what appears to be an interview panel.It’s not clear whether the clip was filmed in the UK or in the US for the show.

Skepta has revealed that he has no more unreleased music and that he will instead produce other acts’ work from now on.The grime legend released his ‘All In’ EP on Friday (July 30) and with it announced that fans won’t be hearing anything else from him.

Skepta has announced that his new EP ALL in will be released this Friday July 30. The follow-up to 2019’s Ignorance Is Bliss, the five-song record includes collaborations with Kid Cudi, J Balvin, and Alté star Teezee.

Skepta has hinted that his new EP ‘All In’ is set to be released next week, and vowed to “never quit music” following recent talk of retirement.The rapper announced his new 5-track EP last month, after hinting back in March that he might be retiring after one more song.“This Jae5 song/video featuring Rema and myself was recorded and shot last year in Ghana,” Skepta revealed in an Instagram Story earlier this year.

Skepta has announced his new EP ‘All In’.The Tottenham rapper has yet to release any solo material in 2021, though he has featured on songs by the likes of Slowthai, the late Tony Allen and Pop Smoke this year.Announcing ‘All In’ on his Instagram Stories last night (June 22), Skepta confirmed that he had been working on the release with the producer and engineer Joshua Faulkner.“2020 was [woozy emoji] but still we made a lot of ideas,” Skepta wrote.

Slowthai has recalled the support he received from Skepta following his controversial behaviour at the NME Awards 2020.The Northampton rapper apologised for his actions towards Awards co-host Katherine Ryan following the February 2020 event, which he left early following a separate altercation with audience members.Speaking to NME in this week’s Big Read, Slowthai said that he was hurt over being called a “misogynist” during the Awards, adding: “My whole life I’ve championed people to be equal –

Skepta, the late Pop Smoke, and A$AP Rocky have teamed up for "Lane Switch," a track that appears on the F9 soundtrack. The track also features Juicy J and Project Pat, who both pay homage to their 2005 Three 6 Mafia single "Poppin My Collar" on the track.

Skepta and the late Pop Smoke from the Fast & Furious 9 soundtrack, has been released.The track is a star-studded affair, with additional verses from both A$AP Rocky and Juicy J, and Project Pat handling the song’s chorus. It also features production from Internet Money‘s Taz Taylor, Cxdy and OK Tanner.Listen to ‘Lane Switcha’ below:‘Lane Switcha’ appears on the soundtrack for Fast and Furious 9, the latest instalment in the film franchise.

There's a lot of talent on "Dimension," the new song from JAE5. There's the East London producer himself, whose Afrobeats-inspired hip-hop sonics help catapult London's J Hus to stardom (and onto the cover of The FADER).

slowthai has released “CANCELLED”, a new collaboration with Skepta taken from his forthcoming sophomore record TYRON.

So, are things really “heating up” between these two? Adele’s response to those Skepta dating rumors has set the record straight once and for all. The 32-year-old Grammy award-winning singer took to Instagram on October 28 to subtly address a report made hours earlier by People, which claimed to confirm her relationship with the British rapper.

Fans want to know: Are Adele and Skepta dating? Clues hint that the “Rolling in the Deep” singer may be moving on from her ex-husband with the British rapper and MC. Adele and Skepta were first rumored to be dating in October 2019 when The Sun reported that the “Rumor Has It” singer attended Skepta’s birthday party in London a month earlier. The news came a month after Adele finalized her divorce with her then-husband, Simon Konecki, after seven years of marriage.

Adele and UK rapper Skepta sparked romance rumours back in October 2019 when they were spotted out for the latter's birthday. Around the time, a source told The Sun that the pair have been there for each other a lot after both their relationships split up.” Now, as the romance buzz reignited, the rumoured couple is again front-and-center.

Adele? Many fans seem to think that the celebrated artist has sparked a romance with rapper Skepta, and are presenting what they claim is evidence to back up their relationship speculation.Over the weekend, the «Hello» singer and the British rapper exchanged some seemingly flirty messages on Instagram, which sent fans into a frenzy.Adele shared a pair of snapshots of herself on Saturday, as she watched her 2016 Glastonbury Music Festival performance on TV in her living room.

A lot of what has made Rico Nasty hot over the past few years is the music that makes people mosh, jump around violently, and plead for the DMV rapper to spit in their mouths during live shows. But I’d argue that much of Rico’s best music comes when she leans into her ability to create beautiful melodies, as she does on her newest track, “Popstar.” If you casually listen, the song is a lighthearted bop that’ll have you humming along by the midway point.

“Uh, mic check, it’s S,” raps Skepta, 37, on “Mic Check,” a song off Insomnia, his album with rappers Chip and Young Adz, released on Mar. 27.