The BBC's digital radio station 1Xtra will reportedly drop its "Love Black Music, Love 1Xtra" slogan as part of a rebranding exercise to bring it closer to parent network Radio 1. According to The ...

Rapper Lady Leshurr and DJ Reece Parkinson will be replaced on BBC Radio 1Xtra, the corporation has announced. Lady Leshurr, whose real name is Melesha O’Garro, has not been doing her Saturday slot ...

This is dope on multiple levels. BBC Radio 1Xtra put together an hour long audio documentary about the late Keith “Guru” Elam. The program is part of the station’s ongoing “Gone Too Soon” series and ...

BBC Radio 1Xtra has announced outreach project 1Xtra Live: The Sessions. The station will head to Birmingham for a month of workshops and sessions with stars such as Sarah-Jane Crawford interacting ...

Drake will take to the BBC airwaves in London on Saturday when he co-hosts's the Radio 1 and 1xtra Rap Show with regular host Tiffany Calver. The news was announced on Thursday morning. You can see a ...

The UK rap scene was once overlooked internationally by its more widely famous counterparts in the US, for reasons including the difference in accents, execution style and dress code. However, in ...

“Words First,” the BBC’s first ever spoken-word season, is celebrating the powerful, high-energy art form that bridges poetry, storytelling, monologue theatre and a wide range of music genres ...

Sian Anderson is a BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and freelance writer. In her column Grime Time, she looks at the stories behind the headlines in grime. The future of grime is being spearheaded by women. While ...

On 16 August BBC Radio 1Xtra celebrates its 10th birthday. The Story of 1Xtra looks at the history of the digital station in two parts, starting this week with the station’s 'Creators', who tell of ...

Popular British radio host David Whitely, known as “Sideman” on BBC’s Radio 1Xtra, quit his job after the network decided to include a racial slur in a news story about a racist attack. The radio host ...

Two weeks after Skepta’s classic freestyle in 2008, Wiley dropped this freestyle to further his reputation as the King of Grime. Duration: 10:07 Black The Ripper drops something hot for Westwood — On ...