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Photograph of the cast members of Top Boy's fifth season, walking in Bow, Tower Hamlets

Critically-acclaimed Top Boy, the East London-based drama about gang culture, returns for a fifth and final season on Netflix, triggering

A Quick Ting On: Grime, by Franklyn Addo book cover.

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Book review: A Quick Ting On: Grime by Franklyn Addo

21 August 202330 August 2023 Polly Nash

From anti-social pastime to widely-respected creative art form, Addo’s debut book traces the nationwide reverberations of a music genre born

Daniel and Mo from 4Deuce Films, producers of grime documentary Aint Hidin Nuttin.

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Aint Hidin Nuttin: Insights drawn from a life of grime and crime in Bow

21 July 202213 February 2023 Panayiota Demosthenous

How two East London locals are showing the world what it was like to grow up in the Mecca of

Grime photographer Simon Wheatley with Mustafa Has, outside Cafe East on Roman Road in Bow, East London

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How being an outsider helped Simon Wheatley document grime from the inside

23 January 202122 June 2023 Tom McGhie

Simon Wheatley is an acclaimed photographer who spent twelve years documenting grime culture. His book Don’t Call Me Urban! spans the years between 1998-2010 and a selection of the photos were displayed recently in Cafe East.

Photograph of grime rapper Wiley by an ice cream van with his entourage of ten.

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Key grime figures and their roots in Roman Road, #BowE3

13 December 202011 May 2023 Tom McGhie

Grime music, the genre which took the British charts by storm in the early noughties, is deeply connected to Roman Road and the surrounding area.

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Famous grime figures and their roots in Roman Road, Bow E3 (#BowE3)

13 December 202022 June 2023 Tom McGhie

Defining urban Britain in the noughties, grime music was honed and crafted by the likes of Wiley and Dizzee Rascal

Dizzee Rascal's new album cover. E3 AF on yellow background.

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Album Review: E3 AF by Dizzee Rascal

13 November 202022 June 2023 Citizen Journalist

Dizzee Rascal’s E3 AF (homage to his roots) is the follow up to Raskit, the hard hitting, banger filled album where Dizzee shows those who thought otherwise that he can still bar with the elite.

Lady Shocker portrait posing smiling grime artist Bow

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Lady Shocker on the evolution of grime culture in Bow and beyond

6 March 20206 July 2021 Frederick O'Brien

‘Grime gets people away from a bad place. It gives them a living, something to focus on,’

Bot bot podcast hosts in recording studio by Zamei Moore

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‘Grime still gathers’: podcast hosts discuss the local music scene

21 February 202012 March 2020 Siva Thangarajah

‘The youth clubs were the element that brought everyone together as part of that MCing culture. So after they started shutting down, everyone sort of drifted,’ laments Gipson.