UK Rap, Grime and Drill Posters, Printed for Collectors
British hip-hop went from pirate radio and pirate-DVD freestyles to the top of the Official Albums Chart in barely a decade, and this collection puts that story on your wall. Our Rap UK set gathers 33 designs pulled from the albums, mixtapes and cover art that built grime, UK drill and modern British rap, each one printed on museum-grade 200gsm matte stock and offered from A4 up to poster-sized A1, framed in black or chrome white or shipped unframed. Whether you rate Dave's Psychodrama, a Central Cee mixtape cover or a London-born legend like MF DOOM, there is a print here for your bedroom wall, your studio or your gift list. Because the full range runs on Buy 2 Get 1 Free, filling a wall with cover art costs less than a night out.
Below is a guide to the artists and scenes collectors reach for most, from Tottenham grime to West London drill and two of the biggest names in world rap who were both born in London. Everything we reference is a real product in this collection, so you can click straight through to the piece you want.
Grime: the sound that started it all
Before drill, before the streaming numbers, there was grime: 140bpm, built in East London bedrooms in the early 2000s. Skepta is the scene's elder statesman, a Tottenham MC and co-founder of the Boy Better Know collective whose 2016 album Konnichiwa won that year's Mercury Prize and dragged grime from the underground into the pop charts. We carry the cover of his self-produced follow-up, Skepta's Ignorance is Bliss, released through Boy Better Know on 31 May 2019. It is the piece that anchors the grime corner of any British rap wall.
Dave: the storyteller from Streatham
No British rapper this generation has been decorated quite like Santan Dave. His 2019 debut Psychodrama entered the Official Albums Chart at Number 1 with the biggest first-week streaming figures for a British rap album at the time, then went on to win the 2019 Mercury Prize and Album of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards. His 2021 second album, We're All Alone in This Together, landed the biggest opening week of 2021 in the UK and returned him to Number 1. Collectors who want the full set can pair the album art with the Psychodrama cover, the Psycho portrait and the Psychodrama graffiti print.
UK drill: Central Cee and the new wave
Drill crossed the Atlantic from Chicago, mutated in South London and, by the 2020s, became Britain's dominant rap sound. Central Cee is its biggest export. The Shepherd's Bush rapper reached Number 2 with his 2021 debut mixtape Wild West, then scored his first UK Number 1 album with 2022's 23. In 2023 he joined forces with Dave for the Split Decision EP, whose lead single "Sprinter" spent ten weeks at Number 1 and became the longest-running Number 1 rap song in UK chart history. We stock the drill wave in depth, with the Wild West cover, the 23 cover and the 23 logo all available as clean wall art.
The heavyweights: Knucks, Nines and Nemzzz
British rap is a country of scenes, and this collection reaches beyond the biggest names. Knucks is the jazz-inflected North West London storyteller whose 2022 album Alpha Place was widely praised for its cinematic London writing, sold here alongside a stripped-back black and white portrait. Nines, the Church Road rapper from Harlesden, took his third album Crabs in a Bucket to Number 1 in 2020 and won the MOBO Award for Album of the Year, following the mixtape One Foot Out. And repping the next generation is Manchester's Nemzzz, born in 2004 and one of the youngest names in the scene, whose Money and Vibes art brings a fresh face to the wall.
London-born, worldwide: 21 Savage and MF DOOM
Two of rap's most quietly British stories close the collection. 21 Savage was born in Plaistow, East London in 1992, a fact the wider world only learned in 2019, and both his 2018 album I Am > I Was and his 2020 collaboration with Metro Boomin, Savage Mode II, debuted at Number 1 on the US Billboard 200. His 2024 solo record American Dream leans into that born-in-London, raised-in-Atlanta identity. MF DOOM, the masked underground icon, was also born in London, in 1971, and his 2004 Madlib collaboration Madvillainy is regularly cited as one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever made. We carry his 1999 debut Operation: Doomsday, the concept album Mm...Food and the unmistakable mask logo too.
Sizes, frames and building a British rap wall
Every design ships in A4, A3, A2 and A1. A4 and A3 suit a desk, a shelf or a tight bedroom grid, while A2 and A1 work as a single statement piece above a bed or sofa. Choose black framing for high-contrast covers and portraits, chrome white to lift brighter artwork, or unframed for the flexible, lower-cost route. All prints use museum-grade 200gsm matte stock for deep colour and a glare-free finish that holds up for years. The easiest gallery to start is a three-poster trio: one hero album cover, one portrait and one logo, kept to a single frame colour and a repeated A3 size for a clean grid. Thanks to Buy 2 Get 1 Free, that third print is on the house, which makes a proper UK rap wall the best-value corner of the shop.
