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Also featured in the summer 2023 HOMEGROWN ISSUE...

“Stormzy a Briton that represents the best of the country today,” says editor-in-chief IB Kamara for the HOMEGROWN issue cover star. Stormzy grew up in Croydon with two worlds inside of him: one, in ends with local MCs like Charmz under the haze of the new millennium, and two, the Ghanaian home his parents left behind to come to the UK. Back in the studio working on new music in the run-up to his 30th birthday, he reflects on his part in a cross-generational, globe-spanning story that's got the world on fire.

Drill superstar Digga D life has been branded too violent to rap about by the British establishment, a ruling that speaks to the ways in which Black music has been criminalised for centuries. He is one of the first artists to be assigned a criminal behaviour order that limits who he associates with, where he goes and what he says in his music. But without the means to make his voice heard, who would he be today?