GRM Daily

Shortly after SB.TV and Link Up TV debuted in the U.K., GRM Daily—originally titled Grime Daily—rose to prominence as one of the country’s foremost music platforms by functioning as a central hub for the nation’s expanding grime community. Once it had grown into the U.K.’s largest media outlet, the platform began generating original music in 2019, assembling contributions from its regular collaborators on the first compilation, Let’s Work, Vol. 1.

Matt Thorne, Koby Hagan, and Pierre Godson-Amamoo launched the venture in 2009, supplying the grime scene with one of its earliest comprehensive outlets under a single banner that gathered mixtapes, interviews, and archival recordings. To mirror its broadening scope across U.K. urban music, the site rebranded in 2012 as GRM Daily (Grime and Rap Music Daily); the change solidified its status as a career accelerator for artists such as Tinchy Stryder and Wretch 32 while introducing the Daily Duppy freestyle series that showcased emerging rappers including Sneakbo. As rap scenes evolved throughout the decade’s second half, the platform continued to promote talents such as Ramz, Dave, Fredo, Russ, and D-Block Europe and to support styles ranging from Afro-swing to drill.

After placing both Daily Duppy and Hardest Out on streaming services, GRM Daily turned to in-house track creation in 2019, drawing on frequent partners AJ Tracey, Hardy Caprio, Not3s, Fredo, and Wretch 32. The resulting project, Let’s Work, Vol. 1, appeared via the platform’s own imprint that July.