{"id":629084,"date":"2026-09-19T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629084\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:02:14","slug":"skepta-teams-with-chase-status-suggs-on-innocent-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629084\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepta Teams With Chase &#038; Status, Suggs On \u201cInnocent Smile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London grime giant Skepta has taken his career to some unexpected places lately. He released an extremely cool <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2321152\/skepta-fred-again-release-collaborative-ep-skepta-fred\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">collaborative EP<\/a> with the superstar DJ Fred again.. last year, and then he took steps to become a superstar DJ himself. Earlier this year Skepta started up spinning house records at M\u00e1s Tiempo, his DJ residency at H\u00ef Ibiza&#8217;s Club Room, and he released <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2496926\/skepta-is-making-house-music-now\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">an EDM EP<\/a> to go along with it. Now, Skepta&#8217;s back to rapping on a new single, but it&#8217;s got its own strange clubby energy.<\/p>\n<p>At some unidentified date in the future, Skepta will reportedly release a new album called The Fork And Knife. His new single &#8220;Innocent Smile&#8221; is a fast, restless, breakbeat-driven jam that will almost certainly soundtrack at least three movie montages in the next decade. Skepta co-produced the track with drum &#8216;n&#8217; bass hitmakers Chase &amp; Status, and the endlessly lovable longtime Madness frontman Graham &#8220;Suggs&#8221; McPherson sings the Gorillaz-esque chorus. <\/p>\n<p>Skepta opens &#8220;Innocent Smile&#8221; up with this unfortunate bar: &#8220;What&#8217;s the story, morning glory?\/ More fake news tryna mind-control me.&#8221; It&#8217;s a big, obvious commercial play that may or may not go off at festivals. For the first minute or so, I was like, &#8220;Oh no, this is terrible.&#8221; Then, I was like, &#8220;Wait a minute, this goes hard.&#8221; It&#8217;s quite a ride! The song has a cool new video from Aidan Zamiri, the frequent Charli XCX collaborator who directed her movie The Moment. Check it out below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London grime giant Skepta has taken his career to some unexpected places lately. He released an extremely cool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-629084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}