The burgeoning demand for grime is ringing loud and clear. Spotify has now designated a category for the U.K. genre’s content amidst the genre’s rising popularity and mainstream-adjacent status.

Grime went from strength to strength in 2017, with major releases and achievements from artists including Stormzy, Skepta, and Wiley helping to push the genre ever closer to the mainstream. The ...

Ever since grime first emerged in the early 00s, people have been asking questions about how to define the genre. Is it a style of hip-hop? An offshoot of UK garage? A cousin of jungle? Perhaps ...

Spotify has officially created a Grime genre category. By Nerisha Penrose Grime started off as an under-the-radar movement birthed back in 2002 in the U.K. but has since grown exponentially over the ...

Sian Anderson is a BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and freelance writer. In her column Grime Time, she looks at the stories behind the headlines in grime. The future of grime is being spearheaded by women. While ...

Grime, as a movement, seems inextricable from the flows and personalities of Wiley, Dizzee, JME et al. But before MCs ruled the roost, sublow growls and dark, sparse rhythms were the vertebrae of the ...

Chip is putting grime firmly back on the map with the release of his fifth studio album, Grime Scene Saviour. The British musical icon released the project, a grime-first body of work, on Friday ...

“Hoodies All Summer” by London grime artist Kano is unified by its sparse, unconventional production and thoughtful lyricism. Instead of danceable rhythms and blustery lyrics, the grime legend employs ...