Ella Mai on R&B’s cross-frontier between the US and UK, accepting the discomfort in growth and the value of vulnerability. Ella’s roots were nurtured in England, gathering the necessary know-how in music from her years at the BIMM. In 2015 she dipped her toes in the water with a SoundCloud release titled Troubled and she…
The UK has one of the strangest relationships with R&B, we love the genre but we seem to overlook it when it comes from our own shores. We are currently in the midst of a resurgence of British R&B. If we look at just the last couple of weeks MNELIA is testament to this. An…
Like many artists, Levelle London began making music during the height of grime in 2005. The temptation to embody the grit of a Ghetts or the intangible je ne sais quoi which marinades across a Skepta’s discography with ease, was constantly embedded in Black British culture. However, some years later, towards the end of the…
It’s weird to say that an artist that is still not even touching 30 years old is a veteran of their genre but in the case of Chip A.K.A. Chipmunk, this is definitely a fact. With over 10 years of experience in the scene, Chip’s career has been far from straight forward with a brief…