Grime and UK rap 2018

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

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...

stop trying to make drill happen!

j/k it's a shame they've been pulling vids

totally dig Renting!

"Honestly mandem can rap about legit stuff and it will bang I want to see more like Sports, construction , Retail , Catering etc big up "

xp drill's happening whether you like it or not ;)

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

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

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

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

So Octavian has as an album out?!!!

(apropos of the wavy one)

octavian tape is 🙏🏻

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRXhsSVcn0

While we're talking about Octavian

he has so much presence

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

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?

looks cool, thanks!

a bit sad to see that wiley clip

Wiley gonna Wiley. It's not his first unhinged rant and it won't be his last

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

Got my YG's talking brexit
That's no more red light district
No more subtitles on Netflix
!

Man Can't is a banger

what's the minimal one? violated smth...

appreciate your updates Paolo!

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

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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

haha

I guess the Harlem Spartans vid is removed because it contains... threats towards another gang/group?

Yeah, there's a level of violence around drill that just hasn't happened with UK music before

Inner City Pressure by Dan Hancox is being made into a TV series

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/42794

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

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

No drill for you this time :(

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 too
some 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 liked
is Homerton B one of these? (is it grime?)

Homerton B doesn't feel like it has much to do with grime to me, it's an obvious anthem though.

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 :(

All blacked out on the road like emos
Leave man stressed, lose hair like chemo

still 2018's best two lines

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 >>>

eoy list from FACT, seems they didn't have time to write much https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/05/best-uk-rap-2018/

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

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

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

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-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 (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