NEW MUSIC: Skepta - 'Dare To Dream'

'Dare To Dream' is the brand new track from Skepta, premiered by MistaJam on BBC 1Xtra on Saturday.

What do you think?

NEWS: Busta Rhymes To Headline One Love On Peace Festival In The UK

US rapper Busta Rhymes will headline the One Love One Peace Festival 2011 at Wembley Arena, 31st July.

Other acts on the bill are Sean Paul, Aswad, Skepta, Gyptian, Shaggy and Ky Mani Marley and more.

Organisers of the festival aim to reaffirm their ‘Throw away your Guns, Throw away your Knives’ initiative by echoing the sentiments of Jamaica’s original One Love Peace Concert where headliner Bob Marley famously united opposing leaders on stage to bring an end to the country’s political civil war.

The event marks 30 years since the passing of Bob Marley and will celebrate the life and times of the King of Reggae with a series of themed sets including a tribute from his son Ky Mani Marley who will be performing a selection of his father’s greatest hits including 'No Woman, No Cry' and 'One Love'.

Tickets went on sale yesterday and are available from Wembley Box Office and Ticketmaster

Prices start at £35.

VIDEO: Diddy-Dirty Money's 'Last Train To Paris' Album Launch Party, London

Yesterday was Diddy-Dirty Money's 'Last Train To Paris' album launch party in London. Diddy, Dawn and Kalena went through some of the tracks from their album which is released in the UK  24th January.

Chipmunk, Skepta, Wretch 32 and Tinchy Stryder all joined Diddy on stage and performed.

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NEW MUSIC: Skepta ft Chipmunk - 'Big'

Skepta and Chipmunk tell you exactly how it feels to be 'Big'.

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NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Skepta - 'Mike Lowery'

Here's Skepta's brand new music video for his latest single 'Mike Lowery' where the MC gets back at his online haters.

NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Diddy - Dirty Money ft Skepta - 'Hello Good Morning' [GRIME REMIX]

We were wondering whether a music video was ever going to be released for the 'Hello Good Morning' Grime remix featuring Skepta.

Well here it is......

NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Skepta ft Preeya Kalidas - 'Cross My Heart'

Skepta is back with 'Cross My Heart' featuring ex-Eastender's actress now singer, Preeya Kalidas.

The single is released October 17th...will you be buying it?

NEW MUSIC: Diddy/Dirty Money ft Skepta - 'Hello Good Morning' [Grime Remix - Radio Rip]

If many of you follow Diddy or Skepta on Twitter you will know that last night the world got to hear the official Grime remix of Diddy/Dirty Money's gold-selling single 'Hello Good Morning' on DJ Logan Sama's Grime show in Kiss FM.

Have a listen to the track and let us know what you think?

NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Skepta - 'Oynama Sikidim Sikidim'

Skepta seems like he really does try his hardest to be different, especially with his new Turkish sampled track 'Oynama Sikidim Sikidim'.

Are you feeling this track?

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SOCIALWRITERS MEET........Nathan

After taking some time out of the game, UK sensation Nathan is back with a hot new track 'Caught Me Slippin’', just in time for summer. We sat down with a jet-lagged Nathan to talk about his new single, his take on the UK music scene and just why he’d choose South London over ATL any day!

You’ve been M.I.A from the music scene for a while now – what was the reason behind that?

Basically, I went to America for a little while to expand my network. I released the first album ‘Masterpiece’ and decided that I wanted to release it in different territories so we released in Japan and it did really well, sold like 80,000. I was really happy with branching out. When I was releasing 'Come Into My Room' and 'Do Without My Love' everyone was like, you should try and go to America as well.
 I went to America and just met a lot of new people, new producers, and started working with people like the guy from Wallstreet who produced the first single, Swizz Beats, Angela Hunte, who wrote 'Empire State Of Mind', it’s just been wicked. So, people were like "what, aren’t you doing music anymore?" They just think beause I haven’t been releasing anything...but there was a lot of behind the scenes work and focusing on this new album and now it’s coming together.

Tell us about the new single

'Caught Me Slippin’' is just a fun song! It was just fun that I had in the studio. At the time when I was recording it, last year November or October, when I was in the studio with Wallstreet he played me the beat and I wasn’t even trying to make a single or anything like that, he just played me the music and I just did what I felt. I wrote it in like 10 minutes, recorded it in like an hour and it was just a fun vibe to go along with the music.


Was it your choice to feature Flo Rida on the track?

Yeah, the way the Flo Rida feature happened was probably about 3 weeks after I recorded the song. I came back over here because Flo Rida had a show in Bristol and they wanted me to support him. We did the show, and we were at the after party and I was so happy with this new song that I did I was like "let me play it in the club", to see how it went. And like everyone was feeling it, it just dropped like one of the songs that was already in. So I was talking to Flo Rida and he was saying "I’m feeling that song" and I was like "you know what would be dope, is if you could feature on it?" We hooked it up that same day. Probably about three or four days after that we came down to Brixton....We brought him to the ends! Yeah we went to the Dairy Studios, we recorded it there, had a little party, you know, had to make sure he had a good vibe, so we brought in some Patron and that, got some girls in.

The video looks amazing! It’s nice to see you dancing for once! But are you worried that you may be compared to other artists such as Chris Brown or Jason Derulo?

I don’t worry about it, I don’t really mind. All of them are good at what they do. With the dancing thing I do like to dance but, I don’t really want to be seen as like...hmm, it’s hard to explain. With music, for me each song is different. So, I don’t want to be that guy that sings and dances to every song because I can sing and just because I can dance. Some songs, it’s about dancing. Some songs make you want to dance; 'Caught Me Slippin’' is that type of song. Then there’s other songs where it’s not like that. It’s just about being in the vibe and moving a certain way so for me, it depends on the song.

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NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Skepta - 'Rescue Me'

Skepta has released the video for his next single, 'Rescue Me', which will be released sometime in the summer.

What do you think of the video and the track? It's not your regular Grime video.....we like!

In other Skepta news, yesterday he was in the studio recording the Grime remix for Diddy's 'Hello Good Morning'. We can't wait to hear the final track!

NEWS: Tinie Tempah & Tinchy Stryder To Feature On The UK Remix To Diddy's 'Hello, Good Morning'

After all the various talk on Twitter about Diddy and UK Grime artists, Diddy exclusively revealed to RWD editor, Hattie Collins, that both Tinie Tempah and Tinchy Stryder will feature on a UK remix to 'Hello Good Morning'.

"I think Tinie is doing something for us but not on the grime mix. He's on one of the UK remixes of Hello Good Morning with Tinchy Stryder. That's exclusive right there."

He also went on to talk about Skepta, who Diddy openly contacted via Twitter to talk about a Grime remix to 'Hello, Good Morning'.

"I want Skepta to do a straight, dirty, authentic grime remix where I redo the vocals, the beats and everything. So I hit up everyone on Twitter and Skepta hit me right back" said the music mogul.
"He was buggin'. He said his twitter blew up, caught on fire and nearly crashed the server... And we just, I guess it's just exciting."
"I'm actually rooting for the UK. I love the UK, I love the artists, the vibe, the style, the swag. I always wanted to do more with the UK cos I think we have an affiliation with each other. If I could be one of the people musically to help expose some of the talent through this album especially, because this album has a very UK vibe. The last train to Paris is through London so...."

Diddy also revealed that if the track with Skepta goes well, they'll even shoot a video for it!

The pair also spoke about Diddy and his love for Grime, what UK rapper Diddy is meant to have signed and his management deal with Nicki Minaj.

Read the full interview here.

NEWS: Diddy Does Grime?

Diddy and Grime in the same sentence?.....Yes it's true

Not content with signing a UK rapper, which he has yet to reveal, Diddy took to Twitter to ask the UK which Grime artist should feature on a Grime remix of his latest single, 'Hello, Good Morning'. Diddy claims he is a fan of Grime music, and seeing as the charts have been filled with hits from the UK rap/Grime scene of lately
This caused a massive Twitter debate, which is still ongoing as I type! Apparently the people spoke, and they chose Boy Better Know member and self-proclaimed Ed Hardy King, Skepta.

So people watch this space! A Skepta and Diddy/Dirty Money collaboration may be on the cards.

NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Skepta - 'Bad Boy'

The Ed-Hardy loving MC is back with an electro-sounding new single 'Bad Boy', with a few cameos from some UK MCs. 'Bad Boy' will be digitally released March 1st 2010.

*Side note: Is wearing designer belts around your neck the new fashion?? Is it the new substitute for a tie?*