Get yourself a nine to fiveIt's not working
― paolo, Friday, 2 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
do we have a UK afro thread becausehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd6K6BcXI8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncu3eYkmTxk
― ||||||||, Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
Yes we do and here it is -UK afrotrap - thread for discussing MoStack, J-Hus, Kojo Funds, Abra Cadabra, Belly Squad, Yxng Bane etc
I really liked No Don but I'm just not really feeling anything else that Lotto Boyz have done tbh
― paolo, Saturday, 3 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
That Lady Leshurr track is excellent btw
― drugs don't kill people, poppers do (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 3 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
it is indeed, and what a hilarious U2 bar
― niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK40q7PJkJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMkK4JR-pho
Have some drill
― paolo, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
Are there any Americans making beats like this? I know drill's originally from Chicago but as far as I'm aware the UK guys have made it into their own thing
― paolo, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYCD05L9NSk
Skepta on another American beat, with Suspect this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR2nAb-mpGY
Suspect going solo. This beat >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4eo_KZMU1Y
Sini Sayso on the second beat in this is I think the only time I've heard a drill MC rap about anything apart from violence or drugs. Obviously these are popular subjects in rap and grime but in drill it's just relentless, literally every song is about stabbing and/or shooting opps and/or paigons. And selling drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAS8zQt6Wik
New Dave, doing his conscious thing
― paolo, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruu9DwzVyJ4
Another Lady Leshurr freestyle. Absolutely kills it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uIc1GQL2XE
New Octavian. Got a bit of a James Blake vibe and a bit of a UK funky vibe, so that's a first
― paolo, Sunday, 1 April 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Any good grime tracks recently? Because I haven't heard any. What I've heard of Wiley's new album has been a bit average
― paolo, Sunday, 1 April 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Have more drill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUzTBbaoqSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRq19nq67p0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFxSP7EfoY
(This one has a puppy in the video, so that's another first)
― paolo, Sunday, 1 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
enjoyed that Octavian song a lot! which genre would you say it is?
― niels, Monday, 2 April 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
first UKG song to mention beryllium? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr9yJgE6v4k
― ||||||||, Monday, 2 April 2018 09:39 (six years ago) link
I think that's the first song in any genre to mention beryllium
xp no clue. That one could easily fit in the afro-bashment/afro-swing/UK afro thread I guess but it's a bit housey so who knows. With that stuff it feels like we're at one of those awesome 'wot do u call it?' points where it's all a bit up in the air
― paolo, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
omg did u just diss tom lehrer
― imago, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
that song is cool but jme kills it too much compared to yung fume
― imago, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
"Hands" by Octavian is one of the best songs of 2018
― niels, Sunday, 22 April 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
thoughts?http://www.complex.com/music/2018/04/grime-needs-a-shake-up/
― ||||||||, Sunday, 22 April 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
for every genre there's an article like that every once in a while?
― niels, Sunday, 22 April 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
Yeah pretty much. It's been a bit quiet recently and maybe it'll come back and maybe it won't
― paolo, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Have yet more drill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkWPX3ztO_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlw2as9Dito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EENME8JiB90
(this one has another dog in it)
― paolo, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dADdmUl8qE
A new grime tune that actually bangs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hXSSo1pYY
The return of Stush and Shystie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0of6vRn-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxVTZ0VE8U
Drill!
― paolo, Monday, 7 May 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
ygg - “strikers”
― ||||||||, Friday, 18 May 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
All blacked out on the road like emosLeave man stressed, lose hair like chemoTry test the YGG trioMust be on bobby like Valentinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7uxcxqi8M
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
That one's good, liking the old skool beat. Slightly disappointed by YGG's lack of tekkerz though
― paolo, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
So drill's getting quite a lot of coverage in the news now. I don't remember this with grime back in the day (or not as much anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBF8C80lYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jVobNKFWh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7omtQnMB_E
I feel like the producers in this scene have upped their game this year
― paolo, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-gang-members-to-be-treated-like-terror-suspects-under-new-measures-to-tackle-violent-crime-a3850626.html
The gist is that drill artists are going to get targeted with laws similar to those used for incitement to terrorism even if the songs aren’t related to specific violent incidents - which seems like a legal stretch and massively open to misuse.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
but this law won't apply to Movies, West End theatrical productions, shit Nick Cave albums etc containing depictions of violence.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
This will only serve to "glamourise" drill. Best publicity it could have possibly gotten, surely
― imago, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/nek3qm/drill-knife-crime-violence-london-long-read
This is good.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 June 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFhf7p4RX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEZ56ro-05M
Couple of grime tunes produced by former UK Funky dudes. Beat on the first is by Lil Silva (and Sampha), second is by Champion
― paolo, Friday, 15 June 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZxccRqB5M
New Octavian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwPkKs6X9_0
New Yxng Bane!
― paolo, Friday, 15 June 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
this is just karma for you guys clowning me about chief keef
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 15 June 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
My understanding is that UK drill is a different thing from the US version now. I've seen a few people online saying that it needs a new name because it's not just like Chief Keef but with British accents. I don't really follow US rap though so I don't know
YouTube are taking down drill videos, one of the ones above has gone so watch em while you still can. More of them are having comments disabled on police advice as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUiE5pJTKM
LD from 67 with Dizzee. First time I've heard him on a drill beat, he kills it (obviously)
― paolo, Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
Goddammit that's the wrong video. Bugzy Malone is rubbish on the one above btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmnf6RrmeQ
― paolo, Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
I know it sounds different — for a long time it all mostly sounded like lil herb’s “kill shit” or variations — but I haven’t been compelled by much of it yet personally
The karma comment still relevant
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
You haven't been compelled by it because its mostly fucking boring.Still, it's giving the press something to talk about while they continue to ignore the British rap music that's actually popular.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
Last Sunday I was in the park and I heard Yxng Bane out of car windows, mobile phones etc maybe seven or eight times.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
liked that Darth Vader, decent bars and a relatively original beat
look forward to the Octavian album, guy has a really cool sense of melody
― niels, Sunday, 17 June 2018 07:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0DhPBfOLSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGiKujP02c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRmIyCxHt8
Headie One and Skengdo and AM from 410 are most likely to blow from the drill scene right now, both seem to be going in a more pop direction (relatively speaking). Not really feeling the Skengdo and AM tracks tbh
― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFFng39VAK4
Silwood Nation coming different again with pop drill done properly. T1 is one of the best MCs around and should be a lot bigger than he is. Nobody goes in as fast as him, he sounds more like a grime MC than a drill MC
― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/22/the-war-against-rap-censoring-drill-may-seem-radical-but-its-not-new
Another good article by Dan Hancox about the police vs drill. I can also recommend his book 'Inner City Pressure' about the history of grime and the social issues around it. If you want more books about grime history (and why wouldn't you?) check Wiley's autobiography and 'This Is Grime' by Hattie Collins
― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Hancox book is particularly notable for what it leaves out as well - a lot of the soap opera stuff, who was beefing with who etc is barely touched upon, Crazy Titch aside. You wouldn't know that Dizzee and Wiley had even fallen out from reading it. That shit is a minefield and by and large an unwelcome distraction so I see why he left it out.
I like how pretty much everyone gets a mention except, pointedly, Big Narstie.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
Big Narstie sold out by appearing on This Morning and not cussing enough!
― calzino, Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah I noticed that it made it sound like the grime scene was one big happy family back in the day, which was obviously not the case
― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUif6C_uJgk
Drake on a drill beat. He's not bad tbh, been practising his UK slang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8AHnQrDcbo
And some non-Drake related drill
― paolo, Monday, 9 July 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
SO @YouTube and @metpoliceuk CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU HAVE TAKEN DOWN ATTEMPTED 1.0 YOU ACTUALLY DONT WANT TO SEE ANYONE BECOME SUCCESSFUL YOU SAY YOU CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND WANT ARTIST TO PROGRESS IN MUSIC WHAT A BULLSHIT LIE— SKENGDO X AM 🐰 (@SkengdoxAm) July 10, 2018
Attempted 1.0 by AM has been taken down. One of the biggest drill tracks this year
― paolo, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
This is absolutely nuts. Obviously there have been plenty of panics about the effects of music on the youngsters but I'm not aware of this type of censorship taking place anywhere in the Western world in recent years. Taking down videos from YouTube doesn't really achieve anything either, someone will just reupload them
― paolo, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
And I know that drill isn't just harmless fun and that putting these tracks on social media can have real life consequences (and I do get middle class guilt about watching these but that's another story), but if you want to stop violent crime is this really the best way to go about it? Better to have guys making money off rapping about this, making videos, getting gigs than making money through crime (it is all guys by the way. I don't think there's any women involved in drill at all). I realise I'm probably preaching to the converted here
― paolo, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
do they take down white supremacist videos
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
You know, I don't believe they do. Looking forward to hearing the right wing media having a go at those snowflakes at the Met for stopping freedom of expression because some people might find it offensive
― paolo, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
FFS it makes no difference, if someone's really intent on publically issuing a specific threat there are plenty of other ways of doing it.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
Like I'm aware that some drill tracks do contain very particular threats to individuals but taking a video down will do nothing to stop anything, especially if a lot of completely blameless artists are censored in the process.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toupivpKpPM
Short BBC documentary on links between drill and violence. It's pretty good tbh, also features some Scouse drillers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaQHYgphfqs
This lad's a decent MC but that mask makes him look like an absolute berk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzbPJGpKP3c
More Yxng Bane. I love this guy
― paolo, Saturday, 14 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
DJ Target's book 'Grime Kids' is being made into a TV series. The book's worth checking out for an insider account of the grime scene from day one - http://trenchtrenchtrench.com/news/dj-targets-grime-kids-book-is-getting-adapted-into-a-tv-series-1
Diesle D Power explains why grime is having a quiet spell and what needs to be done about it - http://trenchtrenchtrench.com/features/a-letter-to-the-grime-scene-by-d-power
― paolo, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqju6QeVoPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt7T8CKci0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxNrRk74PU&t=213s
I'm not sure if you've had enough drill yet
― paolo, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sN8jnVuTD4
Kenny Allstar tries producing instead of DJing. Turns out he's dead good at it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33AgYqEUXc
D Dubz has been looking rough as fuck for a couple of years now. I'm not sure how I feel about this track
― paolo, Monday, 30 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Some good things on this thread, many thanks for maintaining. The Drake clip shows he’s just clowning with his normal musical output
― the article don, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxNrRk74PU&t=60s
One of the tunes I posted yesterday isn't showing so let's try again. About half of the drill tunes above have disappeared, it's form 696 all over again, I know that I've been banging on about this but it really gets on my wick that the police are trying to kill off another music scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFfhbvPz1Y4
This guy's made a drill track about being an estate agent. It's about goddamn time
― paolo, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
xp you're welcome :) That track above that isn't embedding is called Wicked and Wassss by TG Millian, coming with a more minimal beat and a sort of restrained type flow that I'm really feeling. It's one of those videos that's all old footage and clips from violent films because the MC is otherwise engaged...
― paolo, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
stop trying to make drill happen!
j/k it's a shame they've been pulling vids
totally dig Renting!
― niels, Thursday, 2 August 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
"Honestly mandem can rap about legit stuff and it will bang I want to see more like Sports, construction , Retail , Catering etc big up "
― meaulnes, Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
xp drill's happening whether you like it or not ;)
― paolo, Friday, 3 August 2018 09:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2XvQ9c7Rs
This track has been posted a few times by different accounts but it keeps getting taken down, not sure when it's getting a release (or how Wiley feels about it). Features a sample from Terrorist by Renegade which is a big plus. The track is Money Right by Skepta and Dizzee in case it gets taken down again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX__eLsb88k
The video for this features Lethal Bizzle trampling on photos of various senior Tories. I think we can all agree that's a good thing
― paolo, Thursday, 9 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeJ9UD1_ERI
The beat on this sounds like a Rapid production from back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__jsNnusOu0
Foreign Kash is a producer to watch, this beat is coldddd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWuc5iguUY
Flohio is the only female driller I'm aware of
― paolo, Thursday, 9 August 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC64GdXM0bo
This lad could well be blowing up sooner rather than later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEPyPHxO8YE
23 Drillas coming a bit different with this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zseTslaXxBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrnACpUhe98
I might be wrong but it seems like the tempos in drill are getting faster recently, some of them aren't far off 140
― paolo, Sunday, 26 August 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Drill in Pitchfork - https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-moral-panic-against-uk-drill-is-deeply-misguided/
Ciaran Thapar's been writing a lot of good stuff about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwwMPiWavk
67 on Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wECZVI_jiq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thsT6cW2FY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiNfJo2OpeM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3JdnBhXkM
Last one is wavyyyy
― paolo, Saturday, 15 September 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
So Octavian has as an album out?!!!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 15 September 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
(apropos of the wavy one)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 15 September 2018 09:51 (five years ago) link
octavian tape is 🙏🏻
― ||||||||, Saturday, 15 September 2018 10:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRXhsSVcn0
While we're talking about Octavian
― paolo, Monday, 17 September 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
he has so much presence
― niels, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxns_n9q0f4
New Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsXJ1td4lOE
I think that this is the first link up between UK and US drillers and it's a bit good. More of a US beat than a UK one
― paolo, Saturday, 6 October 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bmq2tq/beats-bass-and-bars-the-story-of-grime?suggid=b0bmq2tq
Grime gets the BBC4 treatment. No input from the biggest names but pretty good overall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdCddvN7EUI
Wiley is absolutely FUMING at Skepta. What is he like?
― paolo, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
looks cool, thanks!
― niels, Friday, 19 October 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
a bit sad to see that wiley clip
― niels, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
Wiley gonna Wiley. It's not his first unhinged rant and it won't be his last
― paolo, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdOFOJxYMA
Skepta goes drill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spJoRLpDLLM
Political drill commissioned by Channel 4 news. It's actually quite good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIA4wdReWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_oXmoNwhc
Feeling the beat on this one, nice and minimal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K53_MOexCf4
This one's a banger. These lads can properly dance as well, so that's a bonus
― paolo, Thursday, 1 November 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
Got my YG's talking brexitThat's no more red light districtNo more subtitles on Netflix!
Man Can't is a banger
what's the minimal one? violated smth...
appreciate your updates Paolo!
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
You're welcome! It's Still On The O by Harlem Spartans, let's try again, this one went up last week I think and it's been taken down about three times now. I know I've moaned about this but it really gets on my wick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukTXV5XNls
"You know what that needed? Someone going SKRRR" 🤣@louistheroux reviewing Dave, Headie One and Unknown T is too much 😂 #Splish @Reece_Parkinson #1XtraTalks pic.twitter.com/Olxb3HZUpe— 1Xtra on BBC Sounds (@1Xtra) November 4, 2018
So it turns out Louis Theroux is into drill. Makes me feel better cos he's even more of a middle class nerd than I am
― paolo, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
haha
I guess the Harlem Spartans vid is removed because it contains... threats towards another gang/group?
― niels, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, there's a level of violence around drill that just hasn't happened with UK music before
― paolo, Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Inner City Pressure by Dan Hancox is being made into a TV series
https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/42794
― paolo, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
iamddb has a new song out. carving out a little niche for herself, has a gorgeous voice and needs some ilx love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg_PDZVV2lo
also really like these older tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJjVBe0zrHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTFBKLFXjY
― ogmor, Thursday, 15 November 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah she's good, feeling the new one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehpFrLdt-M
Wiley aims a war dub at Dizzee and Skepta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9lYgX0lUE
There's only been about five grime tracks this year that I've liked, and this is one of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUvIs7y9gsQ
New Lady Leshurr freestyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4DavFO5Ew
Another wavy one from Yxng Bane
― paolo, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
No drill for you this time :(
― paolo, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
enjoyed that Wiley "freestyle", would not mind some response tracks from Skepta and Dizzee
"Born On Your Own" is v good, and what a cool video toosome of the lyrics are oblique to me though
can't help but feel that though Leshurr is very talented and a true professional she needs to find a more personal expression for me to really get into it
There's only been about five grime tracks this year that I've likedis Homerton B one of these? (is it grime?)
― niels, Thursday, 22 November 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
Homerton B doesn't feel like it has much to do with grime to me, it's an obvious anthem though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 November 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
some of the lyrics are oblique to me though
I'm Scottish so I still struggle with lyrics sometimes even though I've been listening to grime for about fifteen years. The only grime tunes I've liked this year are Athlete by Boy Better Know, that YGG tune that was posted in this thread about March, Born On Your Own and that's about it, I think there's some more but can't remember (unless you count Dizzee's Don't Gas Me EP as grime, which it isn't really)
Homerton B is drill but sounds like it's got a bit of a grime influence to me. I still don't know what the B stands for though :(
― paolo, Friday, 23 November 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
All blacked out on the road like emosLeave man stressed, lose hair like chemo
still 2018's best two lines
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 24 November 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
I found another grime track that I'm into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmO6fy-Ezcg
I'll run man's city like Kompany >>>
― paolo, Saturday, 24 November 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
eoy list from FACT, seems they didn't have time to write much https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/05/best-uk-rap-2018/
― niels, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
That list's OK but needs more drill. These ones are for you Fact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV8VfZv4dX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo66SlAUsUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CV4HUUOsMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8LspYL0SO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9rziDSzvQ
I definitely think the producers in drill are getting better, seems to be a lot more variety in the beats than there used to be. Last one is from guys who were in 1011 and believed to be the first people in the UK who have ever been told that they need to inform the police before they make music. No idea how this one hasn't been taken down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cTrnnImcPg
Have some Ikea grime from Nottingham (I think) as well. Disappointed to hear them call Patrick Vieira a legendary shooter when his goalscoring record was mediocre at best
― paolo, Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_X57xS_mw
Last drill updates for the year (probably). Beat on this one is so cold, more producers seem to be making beats with synths that sound like early grime tracks, really ominous minimal vibes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6-DgAtOG4
More political drill from Drillminister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PUITm7krmc
New Flohio. She did a track with Modeselektor recently as well
― paolo, Sunday, 23 December 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
Making the playlist rounds. I didn't hear much of any of this stuff this year, so curious to see what's happening in the UK. Here's everything discussed on the thread that's on US Spotify:
ILM's 2018 Rolling Grime + UK Drill Spotify Playlist
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 23 December 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
Thanks for all the updates this year!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/22/the-war-against-rap-censoring-drill-may-seem-radical-but-its-not-newAnother good article by Dan Hancox about the police vs drill. I can also recommend his book 'Inner City Pressure' about the history of grime and the social issues around it. If you want more books about grime history (and why wouldn't you?) check Wiley's autobiography and 'This Is Grime' by Hattie Collins― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:12 (six months ago) Permalink
― paolo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:12 (six months ago) Permalink
"believed to be the first people in the UK who have ever been told that they need to inform the police before they make music"
...certainly the first since Rick Wakeman. Either way, the balaclava fellas probably wouldn't do well in a lip sync challenge, imo
https://img.discogs.com/Y9isIHsy6E-fb3todmMPfXzfgYc=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2784395-1520871737-6784.jpeg.jpg
― sbahnhof, Friday, 28 December 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link