Some resources about UK rappers and rap in the UK

  • Jeffrey Boakye - Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millenials and the Meaning of Grime (2017)

  • Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital (2013)

  • Richard Bramwell - UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City (2015)

  • Hettie Collins & Olivia Rose - This is Grime (2016)

  • Alex de Lacey - Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music (2024)

  • Adam de Paor-Evans - Hip Hop in the Sticks: A Deepening Con/Text (2023)

  • Adam de Paor-Evans - Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism (2020)

  • Adam de Paor-Evans - Scratching The Surface: Hip Hop, Remoteness and Everyday Life (2020)

  • Todd Dedman - Purists And Peripherals : Hip-Hop and Grime subcultures (2024)

  • DJ Target - Grime Kids: The Inside Story on the Global Grime Takeover (2018)

  • Aniefiok Ekpoudom - Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain (2024)

  • J Griffith Rollefson - Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality (2017)
    [Chapters on MIA, Juice Aleem and New Flesh]

  • Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime (2018)

  • Reyhan Hyder - Brimful of Asia: Negotiating Ethnicity on the UK Music Scene (2004)

  • Martin Jones - Zulu Dawn: The Early Years Of UK Hip Hop (2014)

  • Arusa Qureshi - Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop (2021)

  • Laura Speers - Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene: Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music (2017)

  • Simon Wheatley - Don't Call Me Urban! The Time of Grime (2010)

  • Joy White - Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People (2017)

  • Justin Williams - Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century (2021)

  • Justin Williams - The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop (2015)

  • Mike Skinner - The Story of The Streets (2013)

  • Stormzy & Jude Yawson - Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far (2018)

  • Ruth Adams - “Home sweet home, that’s where I come from, where I got my knowledge of the road and the flow from”: Grime music as an expression of identity in postcolonial London. (2018)

  • Zoe Adams - ‘I don't know why man's calling me family all of a sudden’: Address and reference terms in grime music (2018)

  • Lee Barron - The Sound of Street Corner Society: UK Grime Music as Ethnography (2013)

  • Andy Bennett - Rappin' on the Tyne: White Hip-Hop Culture in North East England - An Ethnographic Study (1996)

  • Richard Bramwell & James Butterworth - 'I Feel English as Fuck': Translocality and the Performance of Alternative Identities Through Rap (2019)

  • Monique Charles - Are You Grime or Part-Time?! Reviewing Race and ‘Realness’ in Britain’s Grime Scene (2018)

  • Monique Charles - Grime Labour: Grime Politics Articulates New Forms of Cross-Race Working-Class Identities (2018)

  • Monique Charles - Hallowed Be Thy Grime: A musicological and sociological genealogy of Grime music and its relation to Black Atlantic religious discourse (2016)

  • Raymond Codrington - The Homegrown: Race, Rap and Class in London (2005)

  • Ian Collinson - 'Dis is England's New Voice': Anger, Activism and the Asian Dub Foundation (2008)

  • Adam de Paor-Evans - From Broken Glass to Ruf Diamonds: Manchester Hip Hop (2018)

  • Todd Dedman - Agency in UK Hip-Hop and Grime Youth Subcultures: Peripherals and Purists (2011)

  • Rob Gallagher - “All the Other Players Want to Look at My Pad”: Grime, Gaming, and Digital Identity (2017)

  • Headz-Zine - Vol 1 Issue 1: North-West Headz (2020)

  • Headz-Zine - Vol 1 Issue 2: South West Headz (2021)

  • Headz-Zine - Vol 1 Issue 3: Bristol Headz (2021)

  • David Hesmondhalgh & Caspar Melville - Urban Breakbeat Culture: Repercussions of Hip Hop in the United Kingdom (2001)

  • Dave Hook - ‘Scottish people can't rap’: the local and global in Scottish hip-hop (Popular Music 40(2)) (2021)

  • John Hutnyk - The Nation Question: Fun-Da-Mental and the Deathening Silence (2006)

  • Claudia May - ‘NOTHING POWERFUL LIKE WORDS SPOKEN’: Black British ‘Femcees’ and the sampling of hip-hop as a theoretical trope (2012)

  • James McNally - The Formation of Hip-Hop in London, 1982-84: A Cultural History (2015)

  • Jessica Perera - The Politics of Generation Grime (2018)

  • James Peterson - Ethnographic Revelations of Nationalism in London Hip-Hop (2002)

  • Christopher Vito - Can We Keep Independent Hip-Hop Lowkey?: Using Content Analysis to Analyze Glocalization in Lowkey‘s Lyrics (2015)

  • Oli Warwick - Systems Overload: Britcore and the UK Underground (2020)

  • Justin Williams - Rapping Postcoloniality: Akala’s “The Thieves Banquet” and Neocolonial Critique (2016)

  • Nina Willment - Geographies of Aesthetic Labour and the Creative Work of Grime DJs (2018)

  • Andy Wood - Original London Style: London Posse and the Birth of British Hip Hop (2009)

  • Nabeel Zubieri - 'New Throat Fe Chat': The Voices and Media of MC Culture (2014)