Skepta Sets the Table
Album · Released 6 November 2026 · Hip-Hop/Rap Skepta Sets the Table The Fork and Knife, by Skepta Fifteen songs, fifty-five minutes, and a back half that fills up with guests. On The Fork and Knife, Skepta hosts rather than declares — and the centre of gravity is not a single but “Belly”, eight minutes forty-nine of the whole scene at one table. The Fork and Knife — Skepta. Illustration by Stephen Agorsor. The title is the argument. A fork and a knife are not instruments; they are what you are handed when something is about to be served. Naming the record after the cutlery rather than the meal puts the emphasis on the eating — the appetite, the portions, the etiquette of who gets fed first. Skepta has been one of the defining voices in British grime for two decades, a co-founder of Boy Better Know and a Mercury Prize winner for Konnichiwa , and the interesting thing about The Fork and Knife is how little it behaves like the album of a man with nothing left to prove. Fifteen son...