Guardian Music — Twenty-one-year-old rapper heads list of nominees for urban music awards including Dizzee Rascal, N-Dubz, Plan B and Professor GreenRapper Tinie Tempah leads the nominations for this year's Mobo awards, with organisers saying urban music "is now the ... more info

News of The World — Ms Dynamite's younger brother performs XXL in the XS Studio. more info

MTV.co.uk News — Rapper Akala has released his new album Double Think this week. The LP from the UK hip hop star features a collaboration with a classical pianist Paul Gladstone Reid as well as recent single XXL.... more info

EXCLUSIVE: THREE explosive new tracks from hip hop star and Ms Dynamite bro Akala more info

MS DYNAMITE'S bro Akala wants to form British Wu-Tang Clan with homegrown stars more info

The Mirror — Akala, whose XXL single is out today, really wants to spice things up - by opening a Jamaican vegan restaurant in London. Yum. more info

Guardian Music — With Palestine, terrorism and racism all filling verse space, the UK's hip-hop fraternity is finally embracing social commentaryUS hip-hop has always been rooted in politics, from the Last Poets and Dead Prez to Public Enemy and beyond. But when it c... more info

The Mirror — He's worked wonders for Amy Winehouse... and now Mark Ronson is to take Brit rapper Akala under his wing. The producer met Akala, whose big sister is Ms Dynamite, at Yoyos in Notting Hill and said he was a big fan of his single XXL out on April 19. A... more info

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Unit One — Methods and the False Aristocracy crews are teaming up to bring you Starkey. If you can remember Unit.One brought him to Dallas in 2007 for DJ Select’s Birthday Celebration and again to NYC at the Knitting Factory in 2008 with Akala & Star Eyes. Yo... more info