Manchester Rapper Aitch to Star in Mobo Awards

Anger as rapper Wiley on bill at MOBO Awards in Manchester

The MOBO Awards will be held in Co-op Live, Manchester, this year

Manchester rapper Aitch to star in Mobo Awards

The rapper is lined up for the ceremony being held in his home city for the first time.

Brummie rapper Tony Bontana: ‘I have to speak on genocide, the same way I have to speak about my grief’

Fronting punk and ‘grungegaze’ bands while making dozens of rap albums, Bontana is a great British one-off. He explains why he’s working towards a world of peaceIn the weeks after his mother died, Tony Bontana sequestered himself in the apartment that doubled as his studio, located in an office block in Selly Oak, Birmingham. There, he worked on his album L’Humanité, often through the night, tussling with his grief over a symphony of manipulated…