Grime and UK rap 2019

another new dave

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

Feeling that Dave track and Black has grown on me as well. I heard there was some controversy about it being played on Radio 1 which is rather depressing but not entirely surprising. Only listened to his album once but it's really good, lyrically he's probably the best MC in the UK

I was all ready to give the Dave album a miss but I'm listening now and it's really fucking good (if incredibly emo).

yeah - I gave it a listen this morning. feeling it too tbh

love the burna track

This and the Little Simz album in as many week suggests a general levelling up in the way MCs are approaching the album format.

The Little Simz loses a bit of steam at the end for me, but the first half absolutely bangs. Get her and Koffee on a track together asap

the dave album is decent and he's an engaging if on-the-nose presence (he's 20! he'll do something amazing soon enough i'm sure) but if you prefer it to the little simz i straight up don't understand you

Comparing them is extremely dumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA3ROsHN_hs

The Daily Mail are going to be fuming when they find out about this (PS just got out of prison btw)

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

Someone has finally made a Match Of The Day themed drill video. Got so much players from back in the day, we gotta come first on Match Of The Day, all we did was attack like Robben and Drogba, we didn't need no Makelele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1TJE5b2Lys

Tion Wayne on drill. Beat is super cold

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

AJ Tracey >>> MoStack on this one for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiKtGbmJUk4

Probably the best youngsters in drill right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJK1cJX7uI

I don't know why T1 isn't bigger than he is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P76hOiutujg

Four Tet does drill (sort of)

that four tet is......................... gooooooood

Three new decent grime tracks in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkF-m5k0h0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQBQ_6dz0Jk

Fairly sure that this is the first grime video filmed (partly) outside the King Power Stadium. Bugzy Malone sent for Chip outside White Hart Lane one time iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0074W0ghhNM

This beat is just super cold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHyHnguvO4

Would be great to see more drill rappers on tracks like this, really good to see these guys trying something different

anyone listen to any mix series / radio shows with uk rap (especially the afropop or drill stuff)? i go through youtube channels like grm daily, link up tv and pressplay sometimes but it seems like there are a ton of forgettable songs for every exciting one. which is still kind of fun, but you know...

the closest thing i've heard is gully type, where the mixes start with uk drill for a while before switching to different material, talking and stuff. i've never actually listened beyond where they change tempo. but for example i love the first 20 mins of this one from 2017:

https://soundcloud.com/gully-type/gully-type-radio

this song's from 2018 but i don't think it was posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZC9AJNtor4

I only really get this stuff from YouTube. Kenny Allstar's got a show on 1Xtra and Carns Hill has a show on Rinse. There's a Drill & UK Rap playlist on Spotify that's pretty good as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBsQFeaBO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPyQ0L5HN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEc2ZWIJKxc

Digga D's taken drill top 20. All the beats above are by Ghosty who is really rather talented

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

New Unknown T. The video features him rapping in a meat locker and getting some sexy laydeez to cook him a steak :/

https://youtu.be/RXVyuWH_c78

Yes please.

That's ace! Scrufizzer is hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD_qcH8GoQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX159hnd8Lw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4X_CzRyVT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy34kzP1isw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGOea8LgAw

Some Christian drill for ya. Not a lot of Christianity on show in the lyrics though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkoX45IEuOk

This is a banger but the video makes me feel queasy :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TWCH_O1cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lsI7ZSUIy4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3X1IYGaCU4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuwcr-M37Do

Drillers getting political. Krept and Konan have started a Change.org petition to stop the police taking down videos

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/13/music-banning-drill-black-british-kids-violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0znnN0JQ8Q

Lady Leshurr with the best pair of trousers you'll see in a rap video this year

Diane Abbott's defended drill in the House of Commons and brought Krept and Konan and Skengdo and AM in to speak about censorship. The right wing press are going to love that.

https://www.dummymag.com/news/diane-abbott-drill-artists-houses-of-parliament/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs_lVpB-8zo

I found a Scottish driller. He's absolutely rubbish tbh but big him up anyway

jed mcneill
5 days ago

The deadest thing ever to come out of Scotland

NSG’s “OT Bop” is so good.

we stan bucket hat alex

bucket hat alex truthers can >>>>>

He’s got truthers??

there are people out there who insist he was a plant

why can’t we just have this one beautiful thing

Truly honoured to have been in the crowd for Bucket Hat Alex. The tension, the look of fear on his face and the explosion of joy when he pulled it off was up there with any penalty shootout I've seen.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/01/alex-mann-the-teenage-rap-fan-who-lit-up-glastonbury

https://youtu.be/_1SNFlZDcS8

The Piers Morgan interview was the exact moment when this went from amazing to terrible.

That Corella track is big, would also fit in the afro bashment thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLIz5-ztg0

DigDat looks like both Rashford and Lingard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ApjvzH4Z3E

I think we need more drill tracks about household cleaning products

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp4q6qi6inQ

Skepta's making more of an effort to move with the times than any of the other grime guys from back in the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkWCweyi2vI

This one sounds like it's got a bit of a dancehall influence. I think it's good that Unknown T's been trying to do things differently since Homerton B but at the same time it'd be nice to hear more bangers like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkWCweyi2vI

I'm a sucker for tunes with built-in reloads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBjo7d8bTqI

Drill's even more male-dominated than grime ever was. Ivoriandoll's one of the only girls in the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvIeN1Xs_o

I just found out that Bandokay is Mark Duggan's son. Feds can't stand me just cos I look like my daddy :(

Oops, here's the built-in reload track. Also Bucket Hat Alex is my new hero <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09kLx-U1PI

can’t remember if this was linked - can’t see the embeds above on phone
https://youtu.be/EkWCweyi2vI

oh duh now I'm on computer, I see paolo posted it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3GijQiyM4w

TS: Bucket Hat Alex v Ben Foster

https://forrestlloyd.bandcamp.com/

dont know if its ok to post friends music here but i mixed this one for my housemate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onYiiDy-VV4

has this been posted yet? these geezers have come up from a bit of a laugh last year to absolute fire

That track is actually hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxlMqw8upQ

This is the best grime tune in I don't know how long. Kano's still got it and D Double and Ghetts are back on form, and it's really good to hear a new grime beat that sounds fresh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ig63dQ8lKI

Another drill tune with a lyric about household cleaning products! Keep thinking you're Mr Muscle til you see the Flash...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06kFEYpq-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fojbTK4B24

Mischief is the worst driller name. It sounds like something you'd call a cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pzuFudwqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_xi4oQM-hc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDBXyGtK7H8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4td7ZUVfkA

This may well be the first drill video with footage of the late great Barbara Windsor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUQG-qgdtg

Some excellent sampling of Free by Ultra Nate on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLlskM33v18

Ocean Wisdom has got to be the fastest MC in the UK

Somehow missed this thread - here's some spoken word-esque stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJ7KXAJvNk

and a lot of different flows: :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp6oDx2C0_Q

Liking the Snips tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbY6pmXMJM

This was mentioned on MOTD last night and it's actually quite good. Ashley Barnes is a knob though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJQy_R9CYR4

Say what you like about Ed Sheeran (and I do) but I think that it's good that he's supporting UK MCs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE_BhUB82Js

This beat is good but just doesn't work with the vocals for me. Big up Floating Points for trying something different though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYeqqg8jBQ

D Double E back on D&B. Produced by DJ Die and Randall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LRxqGAI0e8

I think this is the last track Cadet recorded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZEeV-fkAA

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usu0XY4QNB0

US rapper on a UK drill beat, which I think is a first

new kano record out

beat on the new stormzy is

glad he’s stopped singing & started going in hard again

wiley flow

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

Poor old P Money just can't keep up :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9Ct-UMMt0

AJ Tracey dresses up as the Cat in the Hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89PefEBu7I0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKTTlRdvef8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WmylYvI7w8

OFB youngers have been interviewed in the Grauniad - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/06/uk-drill-rappers-ofb-no-one-helps-us-round-here-music-is-the-only-way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PBxeTmI5I4

Yxng Bane's had a quiet year but his verse on this is decent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-WUkru6nA

DiDgat coming with all the punchlines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAo8BCzdZCY

I think we need more Jamaican accents in drill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCiTjB-g68

I also think that we need more drill songs about reality TV shows

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f7Gkm_W7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKrSt1y-5oM

Zone 2 have been putting in the work lately. 'No Censor' has gone a bit viral because it's the rudest drill track in some time. I'm thinking they must have known it would be taken down by the police right away and that that would get them some more attention. It keeps getting taken down and re-uploaded so there's no point linking it here but this reaction video in which ProdByWalkz looks progressively more horrified throughout the track has somehow stayed up. It's actually a decent tune and probably the least Christmassy thing you'll hear this year.

There's not been many drill songs taken down recently because MCs aren't naming names any more or they're getting edited out (saying that you mash work on opps etc is apparently fine, naming said opps and where they live will get your video removed). I don't know if this has had any effect on the levels of violence whatsoever.

two tracks into the JME album I am going to nominate him for Labour leader and Mayor and Pope

magnificent album and an even better person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDBREutW8g

Dot Rotten sends for JME

magnificent album and an even better person

― imago

as soon as i heard the album it got right into my top 10 of the year. really amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlMtVGI5Pg

Drake's made a UK drill tune and it's quite good. I think he's the first drill rapper to appear in the video wearing a balaclava or ski mask while actually taking part in winter sports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlyF1AXyECY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2SVR_Dy0w

Skengdo and AM back on form