Grime 2017

Latest No Hats No Hoods release aims for the 'Golden Boy' vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgj4gFf24iQ

Mist's stuff with Steel Banglez is pretty samey, but I dig it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Wfiz4x2XU

I dunno if it's because some of these guys are on the festival circuit and need bigger-sounding productions, but there's a kind of 90s raviness creeping in - Avelino's 'Energy', Rude Kid's 'Banger After Banger' etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16zH5fRAyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l8jUBR4RJ4

Maxsta over a remix of Together by Ruff Sqwad

I haven't been this excited about UK music in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwFCH2eJWoU

Kurupt FM and Funky Dee on the same track!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksKOmWSGTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlRambz3mQ

Lot of sick non-London MCs around these days. It's good to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU4DlTomcTw

Bit of a drill influence on this one

It was grime wot (sort of) won it!

Love love love this pic.twitter.com/MlP5nFPS5p

— hattie collins (@hattiecollins) June 9, 2017

I think we all need to come together and admit that right now JME is the greatest living British person.

I come to your team and I fuck shit up. I'm Theresa May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGj2wt94zBM

I thought it was Flow Dan doing the hook at first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWrjHndcEM

I've never really gotten the hype about Bugzy Malone but this one is big

Spyro did an Essential Mix and it's terrific

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tb91b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGq-P0nC0fw

Chip's lyrics are decent, his flow's good but he just doesn't have the voice. Cool beat though and Ghetts goes in as per

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZxmJWygYQ

Not really grime tbf tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbKk0U8l8E

Bonkaz - daft name, sick MC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt50hMCjblk

Izzie Gibbs is most definitely one to watch

midyear heads up that the playlist is updated

ILM's Rolling Grime Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

This Dot Rotten v P Money beef is mental. There's about ten videos so I'm not going to post them all but they are both going in HARD on each other. Makes me wish Dot had MCd more...

Said he can't be boxed? (boxed you)
Said you can't be got? (got you)
Said you can't be dropped? (wait, I swear your label dropped you)
You thought I weren't gonna reply so you're way off your line and BOW... lobbed you

yeah that's stunning!

P Money winning by a large margin tho

Too close to call for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8qbTWfCA0

Seriously Izzie Gibbs though. This lad needs to blow up sooner rather than later

fuckin.... the best of carns hill is absolutely mindblowing. I can't turn it off

https://open.spotify.com/album/36FltrugGgVc39M0S9woMx?si=NkuBPRfl

a lot of these MCs I've never thought too much of but these productions seem to bring out the best in them

I love how organic and eerie and rough it is, feels like hip hop sometimes for that reason, like the RZA, except then you notice your hand is tapping out 120bpm on your jeans leg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WQUSTRWG0

First track I've heard from Big H in a while and it's a biggie

yeah that's great!

Academic study finds grime as 'disruptive and powerful' as punk

Grime is the most "significant musical development within the UK for decades", according to the author of one of the first academic studies into the genre.

It's as "powerful and disruptive as punk", says the man behind the Ticketmaster report.

Whilst 73% of those questioned are aware of grime, the report found less than half (43%) actually listen to it.

There is also evidence that grime fans still feel the genre is perceived negatively by non-grime fans.

Mykaell Riley, director of the Black Music Research Unit at the University of Westminster, says grime is "an outsider".

"The genre said 'we're not going to do things in a conventional way'.

"Grime has challenged contemporary music in its production aesthetic, in its lyrical approach, in its performance ethic.

"It's challenged perceptions of what a young audience would be into and it's created politicians, in terms of how people have been followed."

In the 1970s, punk's sound, look and anti-establishment ethos caused disruption by energising a disillusioned section of youth culture.

He says grime has been allowed to evolve far longer than punk did, but the effect on its fans has been similar.

The report looks at grime's impact in the build-up to the 2017 general election when many artists publicly supported Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn under the Grime4Corbyn hashtag.

"I would say grime artists are the most intelligent group of individuals I've met in the music industry," says Mykaell.

"That's in terms of them understanding how the industry works and their own futures. The way they manage what they say and do in real time is amazing."

The report found - perhaps unsurprisingly - that the number of grime events on sale through Ticketmaster has quadrupled since 2010.

And of the 2,000 general music fans questioned for the report:
•73% are aware of grime
•43% listen to grime
•22% were fans of grime
•13% attended grime gigs

In addition, BPI figures show the number of grime streams has more than doubled in a year, from 86 million in 2016, to 206 million in 2017.

Spotify says Stormzy is the most streamed grime artist to date, followed by Skepta and Dizzee Rascal.

Wiley, the sixth most streamed, is seen as one of the genre's key pioneers.

Speaking to Newsbeat, he says grime is firmly in the mainstream, because England is "built on pop music".

"It's a strong pop market. Stormzy and Skepta have made grime into something today that pays as well as pop does."

However, there is evidence that some people are unhappy with how mainstream grime has become with 25% of those surveyed claiming its growing popularity is alienating "original" fans of the genre.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41559356/academic-study-finds-grime-as-disruptive-and-powerful-as-punk

Who knew Ticketmaster did academic studies. Slightly odd to read a report with a foreword from a guy at the University of Westminster that features a picture of the Kurupt FM lads

http://blog.ticketmaster.co.uk/stateofplay/grime.pdf

Whilst 73% of those questioned are aware of grime, the report found less than half (43%) actually listen to it.

Whilst 86% of those questioned say they "love Stormzy's music", the report found only a quarter (25%) could name one of his songs. When "Shut Up" was excluded from consideration that number dropped to 4%.

solo 45 jfc

"not guilty" eh

good luck with that

'That's How I Like It' might be my song of the year, not sure if I like the remix or the Double E-only original the best. Probably the remix

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Grime Thread Spotify Playlist

btw, that P Money "Real Talk" track is some powerhouse stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOtRfq1sAqs

Two tracks in one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UEDzQjtNzs

Second verse on this is one of the best I've heard in grime this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErzEwOJE2g&feature=youtu.be

Deep one from Spyro. Ghetts goes innnn

And while I'm here I'd just like to wish you all a very grimy Christmas