Roots Manuva
Slime & Reason

Rodney revisits his roots It’s interesting to note that the starting point for this, Manuva’s fourth studio album, was apparently a desire to look b...

Roots Manuva's proper English dialect, fierce, street-smart microphone skills and undying love for dub-reggae are part of a unique sound that has insp...

Roots Manuva's proper English dialect, fierce, street-smart microphone skills and undying love for dub-reggae are part of a unique sound that has insp...

On his sixth solo album from Big Dada, Slime & Reason, Rodney Smith, a.k.a. Roots Manuva, Lord Gosh, and/or Hylton Smythe among other aliases, firmly ...

Roots Manuva?s fourth full-length of completely new material ? Slime & Reason ? was released on the first of September in the U.K. The anticipatory si...

Although he's long been embraced by the mainstream media as the acceptable face of British hip hop, Rodney "Roots Manuva" Smith's records have never b...

Black-British MC culture hit the mainstream. The estranged grime twosome Wiley and Dizzee Rascal achieved their highest chart positions to date with i...

Maybe it's just the phonics of Rodney Smith's rap handle, but listening to Slime & Reason, I keep coming back to the word "ruminative." Though "I'm no...

Three years on from the darkness that was Awfully Deep, Stockwell's Rodney Smith returns. In an genre rife with up-and-coming MCs all vying to knock t...

Here's a rare experience: You listen to the new album by one of your favourite artists, and you realise it's their best so far and a work of genius......