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This year, Skepta will release his first album in seven years, a record of “party music” — an album of bangers including “Gas Me Up (Diligent)”; “Cold Outside”, a jittery club-ready collaboration with fellow grime MC Novelist; and “Deadlines”, which turns Skepta’s immigrant upbringing into autobiography.

The story behind the album title, Fork & Knife? “I started thinking about my trajectory — how I ended up being this Nigerian, British-born artist with this outlook and this understanding of gratitude and luck,” he tells us. “Like the lottery ticket of me being Skepta to my parents. One day I asked my mum how that happened. I know Nigerian people all over the world who ended up in America or Russia or Japan. So I asked her, why the UK? She explained that her dad worked in hospitality in Nigeria. He told her that when people of a certain level sit down for dinner they use a knife and fork — how it’s set up, how it’s laid out — and he wanted all his family to do well enough to live like that.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

@skepta wears @louisvuitton
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Styling Assistants: @thuulala @alexmakubuya

Skepta began DJing before he ever picked up a microphone, drawn first to rave culture and the communal energy of pirate radio.

“When you go right back to the pirate-radio days, it was all inspired by raving,” he says. “Because I started out DJing before I was ever MCing. I was really inspired by rave culture. It was a time when I was away from my family, away from the strictness of having Nigerian parents. I was allowed to go out and be in a British rave.

“You’ve got Black people, white people, Indian people — every colour, every continent — just in the club respecting each other. Nobody being racist, nobody being prejudiced. Everyone just raving together and listening to these beats.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, with his first album in seven years about to drop, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

Editor-in-chief @teovandenbroeke
Photographer @jessicamadavo
Stylist @feranmieso
Art Director @grenadinedempsey
Style Director @zakmaoui
Luxury Director and Interview @johnnydavisesq
Entertainment Editor (Special Projects) @nicolafahey
Picture Production Editor @gemmalucia_shootproducer
Picture Editor @_abiihollister
Senior Designer @laura5heppard
Hair @tstyles___
Grooming @shanicemua_
Set Designer @charlieheathmartin
Movement Director @joegreyadams
Tailor @nafisatosh
Set Assistants: @nyk_mensah @mariashrigley @ellistudorartdept
Styling Assistants: @thuulala @alexmakubuya

Skepta began DJing before he ever picked up a microphone, drawn first to rave culture and the communal energy of pirate radio.

“When you go right back to the pirate-radio days, it was all inspired by raving,” he says. “Because I started out DJing before I was ever MCing. I was really inspired by rave culture. It was a time when I was away from my family, away from the strictness of having Nigerian parents. I was allowed to go out and be in a British rave.

“You’ve got Black people, white people, Indian people — every colour, every continent — just in the club respecting each other. Nobody being racist, nobody being prejudiced. Everyone just raving together and listening to these beats.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, with his first album in seven years about to drop, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

Editor-in-chief @teovandenbroeke
Photographer @jessicamadavo
Stylist @feranmieso
Art Director @grenadinedempsey
Style Director @zakmaoui
Luxury Director and Interview @johnnydavisesq
Entertainment Editor (Special Projects) @nicolafahey
Picture Production Editor @gemmalucia_shootproducer
Picture Editor @_abiihollister
Senior Designer @laura5heppard
Hair @tstyles___
Grooming @shanicemua_
Set Designer @charlieheathmartin
Movement Director @joegreyadams
Tailor @nafisatosh
Set Assistants: @nyk_mensah @mariashrigley @ellistudorartdept
Styling Assistants: @thuulala @alexmakubuya

Skepta began DJing before he ever picked up a microphone, drawn first to rave culture and the communal energy of pirate radio.

“When you go right back to the pirate-radio days, it was all inspired by raving,” he says. “Because I started out DJing before I was ever MCing. I was really inspired by rave culture. It was a time when I was away from my family, away from the strictness of having Nigerian parents. I was allowed to go out and be in a British rave.

“You’ve got Black people, white people, Indian people — every colour, every continent — just in the club respecting each other. Nobody being racist, nobody being prejudiced. Everyone just raving together and listening to these beats.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, with his first album in seven years about to drop, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

Editor-in-chief @teovandenbroeke
Photographer @jessicamadavo
Stylist @feranmieso
Art Director @grenadinedempsey
Style Director @zakmaoui
Luxury Director and Interview @johnnydavisesq
Entertainment Editor (Special Projects) @nicolafahey
Picture Production Editor @gemmalucia_shootproducer
Picture Editor @_abiihollister
Senior Designer @laura5heppard
Hair @tstyles___
Grooming @shanicemua_
Set Designer @charlieheathmartin
Movement Director @joegreyadams
Tailor @nafisatosh
Set Assistants: @nyk_mensah @mariashrigley @ellistudorartdept
Styling Assistants: @thuulala @alexmakubuya

Skepta began DJing before he ever picked up a microphone, drawn first to rave culture and the communal energy of pirate radio.

“When you go right back to the pirate-radio days, it was all inspired by raving,” he says. “Because I started out DJing before I was ever MCing. I was really inspired by rave culture. It was a time when I was away from my family, away from the strictness of having Nigerian parents. I was allowed to go out and be in a British rave.

“You’ve got Black people, white people, Indian people — every colour, every continent — just in the club respecting each other. Nobody being racist, nobody being prejudiced. Everyone just raving together and listening to these beats.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, with his first album in seven years about to drop, Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

Editor-in-chief @teovandenbroeke
Photographer @jessicamadavo
Stylist @feranmieso
Art Director @grenadinedempsey
Style Director @zakmaoui
Luxury Director and Interview @johnnydavisesq
Entertainment Editor (Special Projects) @nicolafahey
Picture Production Editor @gemmalucia_shootproducer
Picture Editor @_abiihollister
Senior Designer @laura5heppard
Hair @tstyles___
Grooming @shanicemua_
Set Designer @charlieheathmartin
Movement Director @joegreyadams
Tailor @nafisatosh
Set Assistants: @nyk_mensah @mariashrigley @ellistudorartdept
Styling Assistants: @thuulala @alexmakubuya

“I love the music so much, the music kind of loves me back. When I took a break from rapping and was DJing more, people on TikTok were taking lyrics from my old songs and using AI to put them on new beats. Those clips were getting millions of plays. I was thinking, aren’t there any new MCs making these tunes? If I stop rapping, are people just going to keep remixing my lyrics forever? And I thought, I can’t stop.”

Fresh from winning a Brit Award, with his first album in seven years about to drop, #Skepta is proving he isn’t just king of grime but master of the universe. He speaks to Esquire UK for the May/June issue. Read the interview at the link in our bio.

Editor-in-chief @teovandenbroeke
Photographer @jessicamadavo
Stylist @feranmieso
Art Director @grenadinedempsey
Style Director @zakmaoui
Luxury Director and Interview @johnnydavisesq
Entertainment Editor (Special Projects) @nicolafahey
Picture Production Editor @gemmalucia_shootproducer
Picture Editor @_abiihollister
Senior Designer @laura5heppard
Hair @tstyles___
Grooming @shanicemua_
Set Designer @charlieheathmartin
Movement Director @joegreyadams
Tailor @nafisatosh
Set Assistants @nyk_mensah @mariashrigley @ellistudorartdept
Styling Assistants @thuulala @alexmakubuya
Producer @dixiemooncie
DOP @edmundcurtis
Cam Assist @jesfdp
Video editor @yoana.pavlova_

#PedroPascal arrived at the Paris premiere of #TheMandalorianandGrogu last night, in a taupe sweater and burgundy jacket, sneaking in a tie to make his casual style a little smarter.

#PedroPascal arrived at the Paris premiere of #TheMandalorianandGrogu last night, in a taupe sweater and burgundy jacket, sneaking in a tie to make his casual style a little smarter.

The #MetGala after party looks have started to roll in and #ConnorStorrie has not disappointed.

The #MetGala after party looks have started to roll in and #ConnorStorrie has not disappointed.

The #MetGala after party looks have started to roll in and #ConnorStorrie has not disappointed.

Last night, around 450 A-list guests descended on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute for the #MetGala 2026, fashion’s biggest night of the year.

As we’re in the business of menswear, we’re giving you a look at all the best (and in some cases most painterly) menswear from the night. So, who adhered to the dress code, which called for guests to explore their relationship to fashion as an embodied art form? Take a look at the link in our bio.

#ASAPRocky and #Rihanna are, as ever, the last people on the #MetGala red carpet. And, as ever, it was worth the wait. Rocky wears custom #Chanel by Matthieu Blazy and Rihanna wears #Margiela couture by Glenn Martens.

Photography by @gettyimages

#ASAPRocky and #Rihanna are, as ever, the last people on the #MetGala red carpet. And, as ever, it was worth the wait. Rocky wears custom #Chanel by Matthieu Blazy and Rihanna wears #Margiela couture by Glenn Martens.

Photography by @gettyimages

#ASAPRocky and #Rihanna are, as ever, the last people on the #MetGala red carpet. And, as ever, it was worth the wait. Rocky wears custom #Chanel by Matthieu Blazy and Rihanna wears #Margiela couture by Glenn Martens.

Photography by @gettyimages

Burberry creative director #DanielLee, #RosieHuntingtonWhiteley and #RomeoBeckham fly the flag for Great Britain at the #MetGala. The top model and Beckham have long been friends of the brand they chose to wear, having starred in a 2015 Christmas campaign together.

Photography by @gettyimages

Music royalty #JayZ, in Louis Vuitton, and #Beyonce, in Olivier Roesteing, (with Blue Ivy in Balenciaga) arrive at the #MetGala.

Photography by @gettyimages

#HudsonWilliams goes shirtless and nods to the Black Swan, his self-confessed favourite movie, at the #MetGala.

Photography by @gettyimages

#HudsonWilliams goes shirtless and nods to the Black Swan, his self-confessed favourite movie, at the #MetGala.

Photography by @gettyimages

#HudsonWilliams goes shirtless and nods to the Black Swan, his self-confessed favourite movie, at the #MetGala.

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight at the #MetGala, the leather-clad guests seemingly had a one track mind and all wanted to pay homage to celebrated queer artists like Tom Of Finland and Robert Mapplethorpe (in lieu with he theme “fashion is art”).

Photography by @gettyimages

#Sombr attends his first Met Gala in #Valentino. We don’t think this will be his last.

Photography by @gettyimages

#Sombr attends his first Met Gala in #Valentino. We don’t think this will be his last.

Photography by @gettyimages

#Sombr attends his first Met Gala in #Valentino. We don’t think this will be his last.

Photography by @gettyimages