"Skepta" Blogs & Blog Posts

It was just a week ago that it was believed that Adele was dating the rapper Skepta, with whom she was spotted on a shopping trip in San Bernadino—specifically at a discount Prada store. They’d been linked to each other since October, though Adel...

For over a year, I have been writing snarky blog posts about a persistent rumor propagated by British tabloid menace The Sun. Last October, they issued a series of reports that a recently divorced Adele was running around London with grime artist Ske...

I understand, in my heart and mind, that Adele and grime icon Skepta are probably not dating. The thought of it is absurd, and makes me laugh when I consider it for longer than I probably should. But what if they were dating? What if they had secretl...

I predicted that Adele, upon finalizing her divorce, would move to Los Angeles and make art about disaffected 30-somethings with complicated custody arrangements. Unfortunately, I could not have predicted that she’d also fall in love with grime art...

2016 Mercury Prize nominees and winner are discussed by editor Mary, including the Bowie fans who felt they were robbed and what Skepta's win truly means. The post Bowie vs. Grime: The 2016 Mercury Prize Story appeared first on There Goes The Fear, a...

Since the inception of grime—the hard-edged, futuristic British genre of rap music cultivated in East London in the early 2000s—its central nervous system has operated concurrently with the way teens use technology. Dizzee Rascal, for instance, b...

This week at the Brit Awards, Kanye West performed a new song called "All Day." It was an unequivocal banger, and the excited tension of hearing a new Yeezy track was amplified by the performance, which featured a giant entourage of mostly bl...