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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.

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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_

#SebastianStan debuted a fresh buzzcut for summer at #CannesFilmFestival, where his new film #Fjord premiered last night.

#SebastianStan debuted a fresh buzzcut for summer at #CannesFilmFestival, where his new film #Fjord premiered last night.

For a couple of years the neck tie was thought to be over, but with a little help from #HarryStyles (among others), it has been resurrected as the menswear grail product. Like Styles, who is currently on his Together Together tour, go bold.

Photography by @gettyimages

For a couple of years the neck tie was thought to be over, but with a little help from #HarryStyles (among others), it has been resurrected as the menswear grail product. Like Styles, who is currently on his Together Together tour, go bold.

Photography by @gettyimages

#ConnorSwindells is in Cannes. It’s his first time. It is, by his own account, “a rather overwhelming experience in the best way”.

“It’s sort of everything you’d expect really,” he says of the French film festival. “It’s a lot of flash photography, and a lot of people looking very beautiful, and a lot of people here to celebrate cinema.”

Swindells, 29, is also there to be celebrated. This evening, he will be awarded with the Trophée @Chopard, an award from the Swiss watch and jewellery maker that is given to a pair of promising actors each year.

Over the years, Joe Alwyn, Mike Faist and Florence Pugh have also won. “It’s a little bit overwhelming, and I’m a bit nervous, but it’s wonderful to be joining a lineage of very, very talented and special individuals,” Swindells says.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photography by @oliverholms

#ConnorSwindells is in Cannes. It’s his first time. It is, by his own account, “a rather overwhelming experience in the best way”.

“It’s sort of everything you’d expect really,” he says of the French film festival. “It’s a lot of flash photography, and a lot of people looking very beautiful, and a lot of people here to celebrate cinema.”

Swindells, 29, is also there to be celebrated. This evening, he will be awarded with the Trophée @Chopard, an award from the Swiss watch and jewellery maker that is given to a pair of promising actors each year.

Over the years, Joe Alwyn, Mike Faist and Florence Pugh have also won. “It’s a little bit overwhelming, and I’m a bit nervous, but it’s wonderful to be joining a lineage of very, very talented and special individuals,” Swindells says.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photography by @oliverholms

#ConnorSwindells is in Cannes. It’s his first time. It is, by his own account, “a rather overwhelming experience in the best way”.

“It’s sort of everything you’d expect really,” he says of the French film festival. “It’s a lot of flash photography, and a lot of people looking very beautiful, and a lot of people here to celebrate cinema.”

Swindells, 29, is also there to be celebrated. This evening, he will be awarded with the Trophée @Chopard, an award from the Swiss watch and jewellery maker that is given to a pair of promising actors each year.

Over the years, Joe Alwyn, Mike Faist and Florence Pugh have also won. “It’s a little bit overwhelming, and I’m a bit nervous, but it’s wonderful to be joining a lineage of very, very talented and special individuals,” Swindells says.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photography by @oliverholms

#ConnorSwindells is in Cannes. It’s his first time. It is, by his own account, “a rather overwhelming experience in the best way”.

“It’s sort of everything you’d expect really,” he says of the French film festival. “It’s a lot of flash photography, and a lot of people looking very beautiful, and a lot of people here to celebrate cinema.”

Swindells, 29, is also there to be celebrated. This evening, he will be awarded with the Trophée @Chopard, an award from the Swiss watch and jewellery maker that is given to a pair of promising actors each year.

Over the years, Joe Alwyn, Mike Faist and Florence Pugh have also won. “It’s a little bit overwhelming, and I’m a bit nervous, but it’s wonderful to be joining a lineage of very, very talented and special individuals,” Swindells says.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photography by @oliverholms

#ConnorSwindells is in Cannes. It’s his first time. It is, by his own account, “a rather overwhelming experience in the best way”.

“It’s sort of everything you’d expect really,” he says of the French film festival. “It’s a lot of flash photography, and a lot of people looking very beautiful, and a lot of people here to celebrate cinema.”

Swindells, 29, is also there to be celebrated. This evening, he will be awarded with the Trophée @Chopard, an award from the Swiss watch and jewellery maker that is given to a pair of promising actors each year.

Over the years, Joe Alwyn, Mike Faist and Florence Pugh have also won. “It’s a little bit overwhelming, and I’m a bit nervous, but it’s wonderful to be joining a lineage of very, very talented and special individuals,” Swindells says.

Read more at the link in our bio.

Photography by @oliverholms

#ASAPRocky isn’t letting fatherhood get the better of his outfits. He even managed to make a vibe out of the blow-up balloon flowers.

Photography by @gettyimages

Ahead of their nuptials this summer, American football star #TravisKelce (with #TaylorSwift), was seen flexing his laid-back tailoring game in @fearofgod and @tomford in New York City.

Photography by @gettyimages

Ahead of their nuptials this summer, American football star #TravisKelce (with #TaylorSwift), was seen flexing his laid-back tailoring game in @fearofgod and @tomford in New York City.

Photography by @gettyimages

Last night Demna brought his @gucci cruise show to NYC’s Times Square and a star-studded front row followed, including singer #ShawnMendes.

Last night Demna brought his @gucci cruise show to NYC’s Times Square and a star-studded front row followed, including singer #ShawnMendes.

Last night Demna brought his @gucci cruise show to NYC’s Times Square and a star-studded front row followed, including singer #ShawnMendes.

Tonight #HarryStyles kicked off his Together Together tour in Amsterdam. Always one to deliver with his tour outfits, he opted for brightly-coloured, custom @celine for the opening show.

Photography by @gettyimages

Tonight #HarryStyles kicked off his Together Together tour in Amsterdam. Always one to deliver with his tour outfits, he opted for brightly-coloured, custom @celine for the opening show.

Photography by @gettyimages

Today at #CannesFilmFestival an emotional #JohnTravolta received an honorary Palme d’Or, the highest honour of the film fest. For the occasion? A fresh new look.

Today at #CannesFilmFestival an emotional #JohnTravolta received an honorary Palme d’Or, the highest honour of the film fest. For the occasion? A fresh new look.

Today at #CannesFilmFestival an emotional #JohnTravolta received an honorary Palme d’Or, the highest honour of the film fest. For the occasion? A fresh new look.

Today at #CannesFilmFestival an emotional #JohnTravolta received an honorary Palme d’Or, the highest honour of the film fest. For the occasion? A fresh new look.

“There’s a place called Unsung that makes incredible boots. It’s run by two brothers, and everything is made there — lace-ups, engineer boots, riding boots. They’re rooted in traditional styles, but done with real care. I’ve had a couple of pairs made there and worn them all over the world.”

‘The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach shares the musical hotspots and culinary highlights of his home town, Nashville, at the link in our bio.

“There’s a place called Unsung that makes incredible boots. It’s run by two brothers, and everything is made there — lace-ups, engineer boots, riding boots. They’re rooted in traditional styles, but done with real care. I’ve had a couple of pairs made there and worn them all over the world.”

‘The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach shares the musical hotspots and culinary highlights of his home town, Nashville, at the link in our bio.

“There’s a place called Unsung that makes incredible boots. It’s run by two brothers, and everything is made there — lace-ups, engineer boots, riding boots. They’re rooted in traditional styles, but done with real care. I’ve had a couple of pairs made there and worn them all over the world.”

‘The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach shares the musical hotspots and culinary highlights of his home town, Nashville, at the link in our bio.

“There’s a place called Unsung that makes incredible boots. It’s run by two brothers, and everything is made there — lace-ups, engineer boots, riding boots. They’re rooted in traditional styles, but done with real care. I’ve had a couple of pairs made there and worn them all over the world.”

‘The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach shares the musical hotspots and culinary highlights of his home town, Nashville, at the link in our bio.