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June 2026

  • Joseph Harker

    double quotation markWith warmth, kindness and unlimited energy, Kanya King revolutionised Black British culture

    Joseph Harker
  • Kanya King pictured in 2025.

    Kanya King, founder of Mobo awards for Black British music, dies aged 57

May 2026

  • Azealia Banks wearing a union jack leotard on stage at O2 Academy in Brixton, London, in 2024

    Badenoch-supporting US rapper Azealia Banks to attend Spectator summer party in London

  • UK rapper and musician Pozer looks at the camera wearing a red jacket against a black background

    ‘I’ve rebranded as a stoic. It’s my ting now!’ The crime and punishment of Pozer, UK rap’s fastest, fiercest talent

  • Doja Cat performs in red lingerie behind a wall of flame

    Doja Cat review – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection

  • Ecca Vandal

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    Ecca Vandal, the genre-defying punk-rap star on getting offline and having tea with Flea: ‘It constantly spins me out’

  • Drake: Iceman / Maid of Honour / Habibti review – ​triple-album comeback is a boring, bloated disaster

  • Kanye West loses lawsuit over uncleared sample played at stadium fan event

  • ‘He’s inspired generations’: Stormzy to produce biopic about football great Ian Wright

  • Drake lost the beef and embraced the manosphere. Is it too late for him to win back his audience?

  • Rapper Kodak Black due in court in Florida on felony drug charge

  • Ranked
    Flutes, freestyles and infectious fun: Lizzo’s greatest songs – ranked!

  • Rapper Kid Cudi fires MIA from tour after ‘offensive’ Republican rant

  • ‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Kneecap: Fenian review – their new album is terrific, triumphant yet tortured

April 2026

  • A portrait of a man against a white background

    Man pleads guilty to role in 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

    Jay Bryant’s admission came more than two decades after the rapper’s murder, but he didn’t name others involved
  • a man holds a microphone on stage

    Tory Lanez sues California officials for $100m over prison stabbing

    Rapper, jailed over Megan Thee Stallion shooting, alleges he was ‘knowingly’ housed with prisoner with violent history

    • Man charged over 2002 Jam Master Jay killing to plead guilty, documents show

    • Afrika Bambaataa obituary

    • The Sunday read
      ‘A house of cards’: how did Wireless festival get it so wrong on Kanye West?

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