Hearing groups of boys go back to back to the soundtrack of Eskimo riddim. Listening to my favourite grime MCs through the fuzzy background of pirate radio. Discussing who spun who on the latest Lord of the Mics – long may the Wiley vs Kano clash live. This was the black British music I grew up with.

Those were the foundations of what we have now. And what we have now is one of the most successful periods black British music has ever seen in the UK. We have artists like Skepta, Stormzy, and Giggs with chart success. Black British artists are making moves in grime, rap, R&B, and everything in between, by being unapologetically themselves.

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