SKEPTA Tickets

Joseph Junior Adenuga, aka Skepta, has always managed to balance being part of a scene with following his own path.

Like so many others, the North London MC and producer is parlaying a youth spent cutting his teeth on pirate radio and in grime raves into a mainstream career with seemingly unstoppable momentum, but along every step of the way he has done things his own way - and he has no intention of changing this to please anyone.

His two albums to date - 2007's wittily titled 'Greatest Hits' and 2008's 'Microphone Champion' - were both released on his own crew's independent Boy Better Know label, as will this year's 'Doin' It Again' be, and he has put the hard yards in when it comes to live performance.

Hard work means little without talent, though, but Skepta has plenty of that. He's nothing if not versatile: he can do menacing, he can do witty; he can do thoughtful, he can do feel-good party tracks. He can make you laugh and get you hyped up, and he's never less than a thrill to listen to.