Keep an eye on Manchester. deed0t has announced his new album, Time To Move Forward, out on 20 November. The Line of Best Fit reports that it’s his lengthiest body of work so far.

The rollout has been steady. ‘Same Face’ opened the era, followed by ‘Locked In’, ‘Been Around’ and ‘Change’, which came out at the end of October. He describes ‘Locked In’ as ‘turning survival mode into tunnel vision’.

‘Been Around’, with Suggz and Zeddy East, made No.8 on the first Official UK Rap Chart, covering 6 to 12 November.

Music runs in the family. The Line of Best Fit says his father was a defining DJ in Manchester’s soundsystem scene, and his grandfather was part of the generation that brought reggae to the city’s underground.

Why this matters: London still dominates UK rap headlines. A Manchester artist in the first rap chart’s top 10 shows the map is getting bigger.