The MOBO Awards 2025 are taking place in Newcastle in February and the first three performers have now been confirmed ...

The BPI also names new female artists making an impact in the UK rap scene, like Bree Runway who recently made top 10 on the BBC's Sound of 2021 list, as helping drive streaming figures for UK rap.

Places that were making money from other genres have now looked at UK rap, AfroBeat, AfroSwing, all the different iterations, and gone: ‘We can make some money out of this.’” ...

The UK rap-scene has been evolving in recent years, taking inspiration from its US counterpart. Drill - a controversial subgenre of rap music - has grown in popularity in the UK, particularly London.

Reece even grilled Louis on what he thought of UK rap, grime and drill ... skrrt' over the top," he saved his best bit of feedback for Unknown T, exclaiming: "Wow, that’s hot".

Layyah's freestyle rap left the 1Xtra presenter ... Krept and Konan had the highest charting UK album by an unsigned act - with Young Kingz getting to 19 in the top 40 Official Albums Chart.

The UK rap-scene has been evolving in recent years, taking inspiration from its US counterpart. Drill - a controversial subgenre of rap music - has grown in popularity in the UK, particularly London.

The winning moment was revealed at the top of a London skyscraper ... has been credited alongside the DJ Mak 10 with bringing energy to the UK rap scene DJ Target has been presenting the show ...