1Xtra - Season 5 / Year 2021

1Xtra is the home of black culture & entertainment in the UK. Here you can find the hottest freestyles, incredible live performances, in-depth interviews and so much more!

Now we bring you one the of the biggest African stars to take over the world, with over 830 million views on his YouTube channel!

The Nigerian/American singer Davido rose to fame in 2011, with his single "Dami Duro". Blowing up in his home Nigeria, the track made it's way to the UK's thriving Afrobeats scene.

Keeping his foot on the gas, Davido steadily released successful singles, until the levels were changed in 2017! After re-negotiating his recording contract due to creative control issues, he landed banger after banger with "If" and "Fall"! Collectively they have over 320 million views on YouTube, with "Fall" being the longest-charting Nigerian pop song in Billboard history; leading him to superstar status.

Davido is no stranger to 1Xtra, where in 2018 he joined the likes of Chance The Rapper and Stefflon Don for 1Xtra live at the 02 Arena London, before selling out 20,000 tickets for his own show in 2019; joining the likes of Rihanna and Justin Bieber!

It's our pleasure to bring you this very special Live Lounge - This is Davido.

Mahalia performs 'Jealous', with Rico Nasty joining all the way from America, and covers Justin Bieber's 'Peaches' for Ace in the 1Xtra Live Lounge.

1Xtra's HOT 4 2021, these are the artists we feel will be doing big things this year.

Performances from the UK's Bellah, Central Cee, Ivorian Doll, PA Salieu, Berwyn, Midas The Jagaban and Lavida Loca alongside interviews with 1Xtra's Remi Burgz.

Alongside international artists Skillibeng, Stalk Ashley & Omah Lay.

We're all influenced by our surroundings but, for musicians and artists, the environment they're raised in can have a huge effect on the work they make in later life – whether they realise it or not!

In this new documentary looking at just how the places artists are raised influence their work, rising UK rapper Ivorian Doll introduces us to the London Borough of Hackney, the place that made her the artist she is, and where she discovered her talent for music.

Revisiting key parts of her childhood including her old school, Ivorian Doll (whose name is derived from her family's roots in Ivory Coast plus an early obsession with Barbie Dolls) takes us on a tour of the streets and estates she remembers from her youth. She also catches up with her good friend – and another British female rapper raised in Hackney – Paigey Cakey. They discover the effect Hackney Empire had on their younger years, and how this venue with its roots in the Victorian Music Hall of the old East End, helped set them up for their own careers in the entertainment industry.

A year ago today George Floyd was murdered at the hands of the police during an arrest, his murder was captured, shared and became the catalyst for change.

Tonight we discuss the Pain, Power and Progress from the last year.

It's 1Xtra Talks with Richie Brave, Seani B and Kelechi Okafor

Musical taste may not be genetic, but in some families musical roots run deep. Decks of Kin looks at black music culture through a generational lens as young artists get into conversation with a relative from an older generation who influenced their musical evolution.

By meeting big names through this intimate and relatable access point, we get to share the foundation stories of today's stars, in conversation with those they're closest to. And by learning about the music and the culture of the generations who influenced them we'll contextualise and explore the richness of British black music heritage with an appreciation of just how deep these musical roots really run.

Filmed in the intimate surrounds of an old school record store, these personal audiences unfold as our star and their relative reminisce about the heritage they both share in an unfiltered and free flowing conversation.

We meet singer Santino Le Saint and Dad, Charlie, who was part of 1990s hip hop group 57th Dynasty. Rapper Novelist who is joined by his Mum and Creative Advisor, Dee. And Jordss sits down with her Mum, Verna, whose eclectic music taste influenced her to become a DJ.

Musical taste may not be genetic, but in some families musical roots run deep. Decks of Kin looks at black music culture through a generational lens as young artists get into conversation with a relative from an older generation who influenced their musical evolution.

By meeting big names through this intimate and relatable access point, we get to share the foundation stories of today's stars, in conversation with those they're closest to. And by learning about the music and the culture of the generations who influenced them we'll contextualise and explore the richness of British black music heritage with an appreciation of just how deep these musical roots really run.

Filmed in the intimate surrounds of an old school record store, these personal audiences unfold as our star and their relative reminisce about the heritage they both share in an unfiltered and free flowing conversation.

We meet singer Santino Le Saint and Dad, Charlie, who was part of 1990s hip hop group 57th Dynasty. Rapper Novelist who is joined by his Mum and Creative Advisor, Dee. And Jordss sits down with her Mum, Verna, whose eclectic music taste influenced her to become a DJ.

Musical taste may not be genetic, but in some families musical roots run deep. Decks of Kin looks at black music culture through a generational lens as young artists get into conversation with a relative from an older generation who influenced their musical evolution.

By meeting big names through this intimate and relatable access point, we get to share the foundation stories of today's stars, in conversation with those they're closest to. And by learning about the music and the culture of the generations who influenced them we'll contextualise and explore the richness of British black music heritage with an appreciation of just how deep these musical roots really run.

Filmed in the intimate surrounds of an old school record store, these personal audiences unfold as our star and their relative reminisce about the heritage they both share in an unfiltered and free flowing conversation.

We meet singer Santino Le Saint and Dad, Charlie, who was part of 1990s hip hop group 57th Dynasty. Rapper Novelist who is joined by his Mum and Creative Advisor, Dee. And Jordss sits down with her Mum, Verna, whose eclectic music taste influenced her to become a DJ.

How is it that Britain, one little island in the middle of nowhere, has been such a game changer when it comes to creating original music genres that give birth to entire new underground cultures which then go on to have such a huge impact on the world?

London – the crowning example of the uniquely British inner city mash up of race, class and culture – has been the crucible for a series of original and unique music genres and pop culture lifestyles that have set the world alight. The recipe has been further enriched by contributions from other key urban centres – cities like Bristol and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Inspired by the bass heavy rhythms of Jamaican sound systems, fused with the culture, fashion, slang and attitude of the Caribbean, West Africa, Asia and America, fueled by a never-ending soundtrack of pirate radio, and led by successive generations of entrepreneurs, hustlers and maverick visionaries, the whole world has moved to the beats of underground music and club culture made right here, in Britain.

This is the story of Jungle, UKG and Grime – three massive underground music scene that were all ‘Made in Britain.' These more recent genres exploded from the streets, pirate radio stations and council estates of London and the UK's inner cities over a period of just a few years in the 1990s. All three gave birth to their own unique sounds, creating a generation of stars, fashions, club scenes and fortunes and all three never quite vanished. Their beats, flows and attitude can still be heard in tunes being made today.

Each episode gives the inside track one of the genres, as told by some of the leading figures who created these underground movements in the first place, in conversation with Ron Samuels, himself a leading light of the original 90s Jungle scene as DJ Ron, and now a documentary director.

How is it that Britain, one little island in the middle of nowhere, has been such a game changer when it comes to creating original music genres that give birth to entire new underground cultures which then go on to have such a huge impact on the world?

London – the crowning example of the uniquely British inner city mash up of race, class and culture – has been the crucible for a series of original and unique music genres and pop culture lifestyles that have set the world alight. The recipe has been further enriched by contributions from other key urban centres – cities like Bristol and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Inspired by the bass heavy rhythms of Jamaican sound systems, fused with the culture, fashion, slang and attitude of the Caribbean, West Africa, Asia and America, fueled by a never-ending soundtrack of pirate radio, and led by successive generations of entrepreneurs, hustlers and maverick visionaries, the whole world has moved to the beats of underground music and club culture made right here, in Britain.

This is the story of Jungle, UKG and Grime – three massive underground music scene that were all ‘Made in Britain.' These more recent genres exploded from the streets, pirate radio stations and council estates of London and the UK's inner cities over a period of just a few years in the 1990s. All three gave birth to their own unique sounds, creating a generation of stars, fashions, club scenes and fortunes and all three never quite vanished. Their beats, flows and attitude can still be heard in tunes being made today.

Each episode gives the inside track one of the genres, as told by some of the leading figures who created these underground movements in the first place, in conversation with Ron Samuels, himself a leading light of the original 90s Jungle scene as DJ Ron, and now a documentary director.

How is it that Britain, one little island in the middle of nowhere, has been such a game changer when it comes to creating original music genres that give birth to entire new underground cultures which then go on to have such a huge impact on the world?

London – the crowning example of the uniquely British inner city mash up of race, class and culture – has been the crucible for a series of original and unique music genres and pop culture lifestyles that have set the world alight. The recipe has been further enriched by contributions from other key urban centres – cities like Bristol and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Inspired by the bass heavy rhythms of Jamaican sound systems, fused with the culture, fashion, slang and attitude of the Caribbean, West Africa, Asia and America, fueled by a never-ending soundtrack of pirate radio, and led by successive generations of entrepreneurs, hustlers and maverick visionaries, the whole world has moved to the beats of underground music and club culture made right here, in Britain.

This is the story of Jungle, UKG and Grime – three massive underground music scene that were all ‘Made in Britain.' These more recent genres exploded from the streets, pirate radio stations and council estates of London and the UK's inner cities over a period of just a few years in the 1990s. All three gave birth to their own unique sounds, creating a generation of stars, fashions, club scenes and fortunes and all three never quite vanished. Their beats, flows and attitude can still be heard in tunes being made today.

Each episode gives the inside track one of the genres, as told by some of the leading figures who created these underground movements in the first place, in conversation with Ron Samuels, himself a leading light of the original 90s Jungle scene as DJ Ron, and now a documentary director.

Giveon performs 'Heartbreak Anniversary' and covers 'Just for Me' by PinkPantheress

BERWYN performs in the 1Xtra Live Lounge

Summer Walker performs 'Toxic', 'Playing Games' and covers Erykah Badu's track 'Bag Lady' for BBC 1Xtra's Live Lounge.

Potter Payper performs in the 1Xtra Live Lounge