How MC Bugzy Malone put Manchester on the grime map

It may be thought of as a London thing, but grime has been flourishing up north for over a decade. Meet the acts who are waving the flag for the Rainy City…If you had checked the UK album charts a couple of weeks ago, you would have found unsigned MC Bugzy Malone’s Walk With Me nestled between Taylor Swift and Lionel Richie at No 8. Another week, another slamdunk for the grime genre’s second coming, its fans hungry for Bugzy’s frank tales of life growing up in “the