UK rap, also known as British hip-hop or UK hip-hop or British rap, is a music genre and culture that covers a variety of styles of hip-hop made in the United Kingdom. The development of UK rap was sh
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Slick Rick is an English rapper.
Wiley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Music.
Skepta's Konnichiwa (2016) won the Mercury Prize and was named the Best Album of 2016 by Apple Music.
UK underground rap is a hip-hop music genre, counterculture and scene of experimental UK rap that emerged in London during the early 2020s. It has been called "the UK's rap revolution". The scene diff
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…British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on stage. Little Simz also released Grey Area in 2019 to much acclaim. During the late 2010s to early 2020s, a new UK underground rap scene emerged in the United Kingdom, originally pioneered and popularised by artists such as Lancey Foux, Fakemink, Phreshboyswag, YT and Zukovstheworld…
The visual identity of the London Underground and Overground networks has been adopted by some UK underground rap artists due to coincidences in naming.
Stratford rapper Lancey Foux has been called "fundamental" to the scene's initial success and referred to as the "godfather" of the movement.
Essex rapper Fakemink has been called the face of the movement.
East London rapper Fimiguerrero has been credited with helping shape the scene's fusion of jerk and rage music.