KA & GRM Daily Present The ‘Rated’ Awards

KA and GRM Daily proudly present the Rated Awards, a brand new music award ceremony to celebrate and recognise the best of British urban talent. Nice!

Read the official press release on the Rated Awards including confirmed acts that will take to the stage...

All award categories and full nominations will be announced on 17th August, the same day that voting opens. Fans will need to head over to www.ratedawards.com and vote for their winners. All entrants over 8 will also get automatically entered into a competition to win tickets to the star studded event held on September 17th at the Clapham Grand. The awards will see the who's who of urban music descend into Clapham, promising to be on of the most important nights in the urban music calender.

Already confirmed to perform at the awards, stalwarts of the scene - Kano and Ghetts plus newcomers Fekky and Bonkaz, with a whole host of other artists still to be release. There's also set to be special guest appearances, exclusive collaborations, award hosts, and presenters all to be announced in the coming weeks.

Event: iLUVLIVE 10th Birthday with Naughty Boy, Emeli Sandé, Rough Copy, Jacob Banks & More! + COMPETITION!

*Competition closed! Congratulations to Chandice Bailey on winning TWO tickets to the show on Monday*

It's always exciting to see or hear about what the good people over at ILUVLIVE are up to, and on June 16th they're celebrating their ten years as the UK's leading home grown live music event.

To celebrate Naughty Boy and Emeli Sandé are back to perform some of their favourite tracks together. Emeli has taken to the ILUVLIVE stage twice before she got signed and was where she had first met Naughty Boy, which secured both of their futures. Speaking on ILUVLIVE, Emeli said: "iluvlive was a great opportunity for me. It's where I met Naughty Boy which led me to featuring on tracks with artists like Chip and Wiley."

The night will see support from some of the UK's hottest emerging acts such as Rough Copy, Stylo G, Ghetts, Jacob Banks, Blizzard, Tanika plus special guests. With the night ending with a thirty minute live jam session with the infamous ILUVLIVE house band and will see the likes of Terri Walker, GFrsh, Little Simz, Jamie Joseph, Lady Leshurr, Lady Lykez, Nick Brewer, Moelogo and still more to be announced surprise guests.

Sounds like a night NOT to be missed! And to make it even more exciting, I'll be running a competition giving away TWO tickets to ONE lucky person, further details about the competition and the event can be seen below.

ILUVLIVE 10th Birthday Event details

Venue: Electric Brixton, Town Hall Parade, Brixton, London SW2 1RJ

Date: Monday, 16 June, 2014

Time: 7pm - 11.30pm

Host/DJ's - Ras Kwame (Capital Xtra) / Twin B (BBC 1Xtra)

Tickets are priced at £10 + bf in advance and can be purchased via the iluvlive.co.uk website or ticketweb.co.uk, seetickets.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN OVER 14's EVENT. UNDER 1'S MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT. MAX TWO UNDER 18's PER ADULT.

COMPETITION DETAILS:

Interested in attending the ILUVLIVE event, and want to win a pair of tickets? Simply send an email to: itsjustmobolaji@gmail.com with your full name with the subject line ;ILUVLIVE Competition'. Winner will be picked at random and competition closes on Friday, 13 June, 2014 at 12noon.

New Music: Cashtastic - Audio Biography ft. Wiley, Ghetts and Krept & Konan

South East London's rising star Cashtastic is back with the 1st offering from the ‘Alarm Clock’ EP. Since his rise in 2011, Cash has been making waves on the underground and collaborating with some of UK's finest artists. ‘Audio Biography’ is a powerful track that offers personal insight into how each of the iconic artists featured got into the rap game.

‘Audio Biography’ features UK heavyweights Wiley, Ghetts and Krept & Konan and doesn't disappoint. The video for ‘Audio Biography’ will be out soon, as well as a host of new tracks landing very soon from the EP.

‘Alarm Clock’ EP will be released via iTunes on the 9th February through Team Winning Records.

New Video: Haze - Where I'm From ft. Ghetts & Sincere

UK rapper Haze enlists two of the UK's finest Ghetts & Sincere for this new video to 'Where I'm From'. 

Haze recently released a single 'So Many Ways' featuring Sway and Hipman Junky, also released a mixtape this year 'Loyalty.Honour.Respect' which was BBC Radio 1Xtra's mixtape of the week.

Teaming up with the people of the legendary SB.TV to direct the music video to 'Where I'm From', Haze has got a lot of viral buzz this past year alone. Haze has also worked with Lowkey on 'Winter Dreams' as well as with Akala and Swiss on 'Against All Odds'.