Natty Kasambala
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United Kingdom
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John Glacier, the renegade London rapper on the rise
In our latest print issue, we sit down with John Glacier, the rapper with renegade blood whose bars contain multitudes – past, present and future → Read More
tendai is bringing British music’s multiplicity to the world stage
Newly signed to 0207 Def Jam, the singer and producer explains his cinematic approach to music-making, and how his church upbringing, London architecture, and the colour dark purple inspire him → Read More
Deto Black on bad bitch energy, being your own best friend, and Bratz
The London-based hyper-trap artist releases her debut project Yung Everything, and talks through her Lagos upbringing, creative complexity, and sex positivity → Read More
South Londoner Tirzah’s Colourgrade LP turns painting into sound
Out today, Colourgrade is a genre-dissolving, collaborative journey into the south London artist's ‘village’ → Read More
Aminé celebrates the Black American teenage dream in this short film
Premiering on NOWNESS, Phillip Youmans’ More Amour is a highly saturated visual ode to Black joy, freedom, friendship, and beauty → Read More
Backroad Gee is shaking up UK drill with infectious energy
The genre-hopping British-Congolese rapper talks heritage, being a naughty kid and his hopes for his much-anticipated debut mixtape → Read More
Diss tracks and raptivism: meet 2021’s next gen of pop
From orchestral rap via Lagos to South Africa’s answer to Ariana Grande, the new school of pop stars is here → Read More
Thuso Mbedu as seen by the Black Image Center collective
The Underground Railroad lead and Barry Jenkins’ new breakout star, as interpreted by five young photographers from LA’s collective non-profit and resource empowering Black image-makers’ futures → Read More
Meet Omah Lay, Nigeria’s rapid rising star and afro-fusion artiste
The 23-year-old artist is exploding afrobeats as we know it – after a meteoric 2020, he talks future ambitions, the joys of the Nigerian music scene, and the traumatic event of last year he’s channeling into a forthcoming album → Read More
How to start your own production company, with Henrie Kwushue
The South London multi-hyphenate and Dazed 100 Ideas Fund recipient tells us how she made a viral web series → Read More
Rhea Dillon elevates black British queer lives in her liberating new film
The dual-screen film art installation frees the diaspora from stigma and celebrates it in all its tenderness, beauty, and intersectionality → Read More
Unpacking all the references in Childish Gambino's phenomenal new video
The ‘Jim Crow’ pose, the dance moves, the Statue of Liberty, and what it all means → Read More
Porches – ‘The House’ review
Sad boy dance anthems meet experimentalism as Aaron Maine cements his status as the reigning champion of electronic melancholia → Read More
Beautiful images of what being Black, British & Muslim means
Ejatu Shaw uses her photo series to reckon with battling sides of her identity and the consequences of rejecting religion → Read More
Moses Sumney – 'Aromanticism' review
Don't mistake Moses Sumney's debut for an album of classic love confessionals, it's more subversive than that → Read More
Everything Everything – 'A Fever Dream' review
The divisive art-rockers' fourth album feels torn between innovation and playing it safe → Read More
Why do graffiti writers get sent to prison for so long?
A conversation with the director, writer and subjects of a short film exploring the unjust sentencing of graffiti artists → Read More
Sheer Mag – 'Need To Feel Your Love' review
The Philadelphia band meld rock 'n' roll riffs and a political heft to create an album in thrall to the past but looking to the future → Read More
5 years after Channel Orange, no one sounds like Frank Ocean
Unpacking why the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter’s debut studio album is still a symbol of innovation and individuality → Read More
How Jay-Z’s new video references & subverts racist cartoons
The animated clip for ‘The Story of OJ’ employs a range of racially-charged caricatures and references to blackface from vintage cartoons → Read More