Music & style visionary Pharrell Williams brought the stars out and lit up the “City of Lights” for his debut SS24 collection as creative director of Louis Vuitton. It’s not often – or ever – that we see Beyonce use her tour rest day to sit front row and headbop at a Paris fashion show.…
Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. Friday is the day…
Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. Friday is the day…
Blue Monday is claimed to be the saddest day of the year so what better way to fight it than with music. A casual search of Blue Monday brings up that it is the saddest day in the northern hemisphere, but the UK in particular, and usually falls on the third Monday of January. It…
In the conversation of Black British music we can never forget the ladies that played just as big a part as the men. If you were a young Black Brit growing up in the era of UK Garage, and were about for the rise of the UK founded genre Grime, you were probably listening to…
Nines went number 1 with his Crabs In A Bucket album on Friday, but how replicable is that for other artists? Success is something Nines is no stranger to, but going number 1 with his latest album is something that very few artists from our scene can relate to. In fact, even a number one…
Blackness is a diverse and vast topic but music has been a great place highlighting this. I’m sure many of you will have seen a lot of commentary on the topic of Blackness on social media over the past few days, most of it negative. Rather than leaning into the negativity, I think it provides…
There are artists that do shows and then there are artists who perform. Seeing an artist perform live can sometimes make or break fans appreciation for artists, it can even gain artists new fans. But the job of being a performer isn’t an easy one. To get a crowd hyped up, capture and sustain their…
Black culture was a dominant force that refused to take a backseat at the 40th anniversary BRIT awards show. Whether it was Lizzo stealing the show from host Jack Whitehall, Stormzy‘s amazing multi-stage performance with an impromptu Burna Boy set, or the man of the show Dave – Black culture took centre stage at the…
Having produced number 1 singles like Dave & Fredo‘s ‘Funky Friday’ as well as hot off releasing his latest single ‘No Fears’ featuring Wretch 32, 169 joined us for a catch up. As a multi-talented, 21 year old, artist and super producer it was only right to bring him down to GUAP HQ. We spoke…