While I was waiting for Wiley to answer the phone for our interview, he was busily tweeting about the greatness of The Wire (“people will be tryna copy it for ever”), the killing of George Floyd (“there has to be consequences”), and his spice-free passionfruit and mango flavour order at Nando’s (“no shame at all”). It is hard to imagine someone more committed to sharing their every waking thought with the world. So it came as a surprise to discover that his new album would be his last. “I’m 41,” he tells me. “I don’t want to try and fit in with kids. I just need to not let my genre die on the way out”…
There’s a certain time in a lot of our lives when we fantasize about being in bands, and those fantasies usually go something like this. You and a small group of friends love nothing more than…
A new generation of Ghanaian producers are making electronic music that’s rooted in swing, highlife and Afro-Cuban music. James Acquaye Nortey-Glover talks to those who are leading the…
Chloe x Halle are voices of the next generation and are being outspoken in various ways. They called in to Sway In The Morning to talk about their latest project Ungodly Hour.
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