Grime, Afro bashment, drill ... how​ black British music became more fertile than ever​

Black musicians were once boxed in by the mainstream. But the success of grime has helped diverse, diasporic tracks to hit the charts‘You can’t escape its inspiration’: inside the true history of grimeGrime’s overdue entrance into the UK mainstream, via Stormzy, Skepta and others in the past few years, has now opened doors for a host of other genres of black British music. On the one side, there is the tabloid-worrying, tonally dark road rap and UK drill scenes, with a...

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