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Jun 1, 2018 · Ben Beaumont-Thomas. Fri 1 Jun 2018 01.00 EDT. S ince emerging from London as a harsh, lyrically dextrous, hybrid rap music in the early 00s, grime has had the three-act narrative of a Hollywood...
Sep 24, 2018 · In “Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime,” the British journalist Dan Hancox describes the sound of those early days as having “crash-landed in the present with no past, and no future ...
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Jul 12, 2022 · Originally an underground sound, grime has gone mainstream in Britain—and since its creation, it has become hugely influential for artists around the world. Now, a new free exhibition...
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- Pay As U Go. 'Know We' (2000) Understanding grime means understanding where it came from – run-down inner London council estates, in the anxious atmosphere of a new millennium, with UK garage's bottle of Cristal champagne shattering into a million pieces on the pavement.
- Wiley. 'Eskimo' (2002) Breaking free from UK garage meant building something new, “an even colder sound” than So Solid had managed, as Wiley put it. In the first years of the 2000s, he created a whole sound-world, ‘eskibeat’ or ‘eskimo’, characterised by sparse arrangements, sci-fi synths, devastating basslines and awkward, off-kilter rhythms: with track names like Ice Rink, Igloo, Ice Pole, Blizzard, Ice Cream Man, Snowman, Frostbite, Freeze, Colder and Morgue.
- Dizzee Rascal. 'Imagine' (2004) On his classic first two albums, 'Boy in da Corner' and 'Showtime', Dizzee shows himself to be not just a genius lyricist and beat-maker – while still a teenager, no less – but a kind of frontline reporter, on overlooked lives and untold stories from the troubled world around him: paranoid, marginalised, and scapegoated by cops, politicians and the media, precarious and yet trapped.
- Lethal Bizzle. 'Pow! (Forward)'(2004) Where to start with a tune so raucous it was banned from clubs across London and Essex? ‘ All Lethal B tracks are banned from this venue (including instrumentals)’ read one such sign, a testament to the power of Dexplicit’s 'Forward' riddim: even the instrumental alone was too liable to start a riot.
- 2005 Pirate Radio Takes A Hit
- 2015 Kanye Sneaks Grime’s Finest on to Live TV
- 2016 Drake Signs to Boy Better Know
For the last three years, Rinse FM has been one of the go-to places for grime MCs to get on the mic. A little too much so for the liking of the authorities, who give DJ Slimzee an Asbo, banning him from being on the roof of any building in Tower Hamlets more than four storeys high. Rinse continues to broadcast (legally), and these days, Slimzee doe...
When Kanye West performs ‘All Day’ at the Brits, he unexpectedly brings a 40-person tracksuited mafia of London grime artists on to the stage. Is he exploiting grime? Is he boosting its profile? Either way, it shows that the genre has some serious fans across the Pond.
Back in the day, grime artists tried desperately to get cred by being acknowledged by North American artists. When, in February, Drakeinstagrams ‘the first Canadian signed to BBK’, the internet goes mental. ‘Finally!’ they squeal, ‘they’ve come to us for credibility. The roles are reversed!’ Grime’s journey to global mega-ness is complete.
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) [3] that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage, [4] and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. [2] The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 140 beats per minute, [4] [1] and often features an ...
Dec 22, 2021 · As with any real-life tale, there is no single story of grime. It is layered, nuanced and complex. The moment where one genre ends and another begins is not clear-cut; the edges are blurred. As memories fade, or play tricks, conversations continue about what was the first grime track, or where t…
