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JP’s UK Culture Picks: April/May 2026

Complex·Joseph JP Patterson·about 1 month ago
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Welcome to   JP’s UK Culture Picks , your one-stop monthly column for all the best in UK music and culture! Expect everything from my favourite tracks and albums of the month to random YouTube finds, fire food spots to club night recommendations. You can find me on IG:   @josephjppatterson . Roll on, road rap revival… Roll on! Road rap, “real rap”, UK street rap—whatever you wanna call it, it’s a sound and a feeling I believe the wider scene has been waiting to be restored for a good while now, but thankfully, some of its premier names are starting to make their way back to the front. For those unaware of its roots, road rap emerged in the mid-2000s at the intersection of Brixton’s P.D.C and, specifically, Giggs from Peckham, which marked something of a passing of the torch in UK street music during a time when grime’s first wave was still on heat.…

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