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🚨 Schedule News 🚨

We are thrilled to announce that Birmingham native DJ Day Day will join 1Xtra as our new weekday host live from Birmingham Monday to Friday 10am-1pm from January 22nd 2024!

Welcome to the 1Xtra Family DJ Day Day ❤️

The 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards are here to celebrate 50 years of the genre!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first hip hop party and people across the world are celebrating the music, culture and fashion and 1Xtra will be celebrating with BET UK.

This year’s BET Awards will take place in October in Atlanta and we will be supporting this year’s Best International Flow category!

We will be reflecting all the amazing content on air and on social. Catch the BET Hip Hop Awards on My5 soon!

Dizzee Rascal! joins Kenny Allstar to celebrate 20 years of his groundbreaking debut album 'Boy In Da Corner' with a live performance and in-depth interview as part of Hip-Hop's 50th birthday celebrations 🔥

Listen on BBC Sounds from 11pm

This year, the BBC celebrates 50 years of Hip Hop!

As part of the anniversary, 1Xtra Salutes The Notorious B.I.G with an hour of classics from the legend himself!

To listen head to the Music tab in BBC Sounds and play ‘Hip Hop 50’ 🎧

🔗: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/curation/m001p2r7

ARE YOU READY FOR 2023?!?! 👀🔥

This year we have partnered with AfroNation to bring you an amazing line-up with the likes of Burna Boy, 50 Cent and more heading to Portugal!

🚨 SIGN-UP FOR PRIORITY ACCESS TO TICKETS - Phase One Line up has arrived! 🎉 We’re not done yet, so watch this space 😉

Tickets will be available to those who have signed up on Thursday 26th Jan at 9AM GMT.

Sign-up at afronation.com 📲

🚨 NEW PRESENTER ALERT 🚨

Introducing our newest presenter CassKidd who will be joining the 1Xtra family from January 3rd 2023 ✨

CassKidd will take over from Jamz Supernova on Tuesday nights at 9pm.

🎧 Catch the launch live on BBC Sounds

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Migos rapper Takeoff. Our thoughts and sincere condolences to his family, friends and loved ones during this unimaginable time.

Rest in Power Takeoff 🕊❤️

Takeoff: Migos rapper shot dead in Houston, reports say The star, whose group found fame with hits like Bad and Boujee and Stir Fry, was 28 years old.

💫 1Xtra Future Figures is back 💫

This Black History Month, we're celebrating inspirational people/organisations in the community making Black history now.

This year's Future Figures have been selected by you. 🙏🏾

You can read more about their success and positive impact here ⬇️

BBC - 1Xtra Future Figures 2022 1Xtra Future Figures 2022 - Making Black History Now

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of rapper Coolio, the artist who brought us the classic hit ‘Gangsta’s Paradise.’ 🙏🏾🌹

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones. Rest in Paradise. ❤️

Coolio: Michelle Pfeiffer and Snoop Dogg lead tributes to Gangsta's Paradise rapper Stars pay tribute to Gangsta's Paradise rapper, who has died at 59 after being found unresponsive.

One year of the UK’s Official Afrobeats Chart with Eddie Kadi 🙏🏾🖤

The UK’s first ever Official Afrobeats Chart Show celebrates first anniversary "To celebrate one year of the UK’s first-ever Official Afrobeats Chart Show is a huge moment for us and for the culture”

🏆 We Stay Winning 🏆

Congratulations to our presenters DJ Target, Kenny Allstar, Sir Spyro, Snoochie Shy and Tiffany Calver who have been nominated for ‘Radio DJ of the Year’ at this years
Rated Awards!

1Xtra Live Update 🎤

Due to some significant changes over the past few weeks, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s 1Xtra Live, which was due to be held on 15th October in London.

A combination of changes to artists’ schedules and increasing financial costs means that we are not able to put on the event to the standard we expect from ourselves and more importantly, to the standard our audience expects from us.

We are working hard to deliver something special for later in the year, which we’ll announce soon.