Can we tell you that it took a fair amount of archive bedeviling to find the issue in which we talked to Roots Manuva? We just did. We gave him a Gen F in issue 30 and then It turns out we put him in ...

It seems Roots, aka Rodney Smith, is destined to forever make vibrant, interesting and funny pop rap while all around succumb to clichés and easy options. This is an irresistibly individualised ...

BRITAIN'S most underrated hip-hop star is back with an album as split as his own personality. The first half is filled with upbeat tunes like the dancehall-tastic Again And Again and crazy lead single ...

Roots Manuva's album Slime and Reason is coming out in the US at the end of September, but because we love to ply you guys with incentives to actually buy things, here is a 15-minute sampler of the ...

A couple of weeks ago I had the world premiere on the brand new Roots Manuva record. Produced by Sheffield Dancehall chemist Toddla T, 'Buff Nuff' is the first single to be taken from his forthcoming ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. Almost a decade after his debut album Brand New Second Hand appeared, ...

While there's still no word on a fifth studio record from British dub/hip-hop mainstay Roots Manuva, his label, Big Dada Records, has announced that it will release an LP of his songs reworked by UK ...

what you hold in your hands is largely a series of re-works by a talented producer who, for reasons best known to himself, goes by the moniker wrong tom. it covers all four of roots manuva's main ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It’s the NME Award Shows’ moment to, as Master Shortie puts it, “give some noise for UK hip-hop”, but down at KOKO, Camden’s Twiglet pseudo-urchins are having some trouble krumping in their ...