Krept & Konan cover Huck’s new digital issue, focusing on our home city
- Text by Isaac Muk
- Photography by Thomas Morgan, Will Ainsworth
The London Issue — As we gallop into a hyperconnected age, we think it’s never been more important to engage with our local surroundings. So, we’ve put together a special magazine, exclusively for our Apple News subscribers, to celebrate London and its unending vibrancy.
In a hyperconnected digital world, where we transport ourselves from overhearing conversations taking place on the New York subway to the inside of a celebrity’s kitchen with the drag of a thumb, it’s easy to forget to take in our immediate surroundings.
This cultural shift – coupled with savage economic forces – has led local journalism to a reach crisis status, leaving areas with “dark spots” and a void of information or storytelling that touches close to real people’s lives.
At Huck, while we have always told stories from across the globe, London, our home city, has been the foundation of everything we do. Since we started 19 years ago, east London has remained our home, and we’re as focused on the people who we walk past each day as on those we cover around the world.
To celebrate the city that has forged us, we’ve put together a digital-only special magazine for our Apple News subscribers, focusing on the best stories of community and culture that London has to offer. On the cover are Krept & Konan – true London success stories – who have had to overcome loss and adversity to become UK rap’s most definitive double act.
Then we have Rise United, the ESEA+ football club forged out of pandemic hate, who are now one arm of a rising burst of Asian creativity and community in the UK capital, as well as a micro report into London’s queer line dancing scene at a time when country music is having a global renaissance. We also take readers into Hackney’s Pho Mile – a stone’s throw from Huck’s Shoreditch base – and revisit its history of local action, and there’s much more to dive into in the magazine.
Check it out here, and do please follow Huck on Apple News+, to make sure the best of our stories from London and beyond reaches your feed every day.
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