Posted in 2009, Dubstep, Grime, Jake, UK, YouTube Clips, tagged chase & status, chase and status, Dubstep, jay-z d.o.a, nicki minaj, nicki minaj chase and status, saxon, Wale on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chase & Status – Saxon ft. Nicki Minaj
So Dubstep kings Chase & Status are really taking this U.S. remix/collaborative effort to heart. So far they’re 2 for 2, they got that Snoop joint, and that Jay-Z D.O.A. remix. Nicki Minaj hasn’t been covered really at all on our site, and now that I’m pondering, I’m [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Haters, Jake, London, tagged garage, Grime, grime artists, kano, london rapper, niggas want my old shit, nwmos, p's and q's, UK, vintage on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps in a reference to bloggers like us talking about the superiority of vintage Kano over contemporary Kano, Kano drops a message about our propensity to say “he used to be the shit.” Message received and currently being processed. I do admire the line Kano drops about people pestering him about older material:
“why don’t you [...]
Posted in 2009, Art, Grime, Jake, London, UK, YouTube Clips, tagged arts council england, bashy, dance theater, Grime, hip hop news, hip hop theatre, jonzi d productions, musical drama, UK on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I touched on a phenomenon occurring in hip hop, whereby rap was being thrown together with the dramatic arts. Out of that effort to produce a new genre, “Hip Hopera” was born. No doubt Kenzo Digital’s interpretation of a Hip Hopera was far more palatable than MTV’s cruddy cupcake of a film. [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, London, tagged dictionary, dizzee rascal, donaeo, east london, go hard, Grime, kano, lethal bizzle, London, music, noah webster, nyc, oxford dictionary, pop, UK, webster's, wiley on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve made a horrifying realization about my dismissal of UK rap and more pertinently, UK grime artists. I was under the impression that they had forged a pact amongst themselves, acknowledging that U.S. hip hop was the true basis of their movement. Regardless of their transplanted Caribbean roots or East London parochialism, the basis was [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, UK, Videos, tagged UK, Grime, kano, east london, rock n roller, rock n rolla, ukg, p's and q's, lethal bizzle, demon, ghetto, i am london, sweet home on September 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
MPFREE: Kano – Rock N Roller (Promo CD) 2009
Between the uni-lens and the piss poor auto-tune, Kano has lucidly demonstrated his desire to become the UK version of Lil Wayne. At one point Kano was looked at as a stand alone example of the compatible relationship between grime and UK interpretative hip hop. [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, MP-freeeeeee, tagged air born, camp lo, chronic, dizzee rascal, dj honda, free download, freeway, group home, joint, krs one, lp, luchini, marijuana joint, mp3, mpfree, phoe notes, royce da 5' 9'', taxi driver, tongue and cheek, tongue n cheek, touch down, weed joint, Wiz Khalifa on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MPFREE:
Freeway – Touch Down (Prod. By Phoe Notes)
Royce Da 5′ 9” – Taxi Driver
Krs One & Buckshot – Connection ft. Smif N Wessun
DJ Honda – Group Home Gangsta ft. Group Home
Wiz Khalifa – Air Born (Luchini Remix)
Mic Massive ft. Jadakiss – Take It Easy
Brother Ali – Crown Jewel
Feature Download:
Dizee Rascal – Tongue N’ Cheek (LP) [...]
Posted in 2009, Art, Grime, London, PeD, tagged bun b, dizzee rascal, england, garage, Grime, u.k., UGK, wiley on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just got the track listing and cover-art for Dizzee’s fourth album Tongue N’ Cheek, which drops in late September in the U.K. and hopefully soon thereafter in the States. I’m slightly disappointed for the fact that it doesn’t appear that there’s going to be a Bun-B collab, as there was on Dizzee’s last album, but [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, Stuff to buy, Videos, Zebra Is Food Exclusive, tagged apparel, aspecks, aspecks gear, blog, british music, clothing line, dizzee rascal, gear, Grime, zebreezy on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When zebras keep together as a big group, the pattern of each zebra’s stripes blends in with the stripes of the zebras around it. This is confusing to the lion, who sees a large, moving, striped mass instead of many individual zebras. The lion has trouble picking out any one zebra, and so it doesn’t [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, MP-freeeeeee, tagged british music, death of autotune, death of everything, east london, Grime, jay-z, kano, London on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been hating on recent grime music. The Prince of Grime say’s fuck it all. A new track by Kano “Death of Everything” is another good installment in what appears to be a trend. That is, hot U.S. hip hop tracks being remixed at a serious level by big time UK [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, London, MP-freeeeeee, Videos, tagged bbc, butterfly, dizee rascal, dizzee, download, fruits & veg, Grime, p money, UK on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is an inevitable slide into softness when musicians try and get “dancey.” I think that this is a compromise that consumers and artists both accept as an inevitable trait of mass appeal. This somewhat ugly symptom of the music industry does not mean that an artist must blatantly soften their image, there is clearly [...]
Posted in Grime, Jake, MP-freeeeeee, UK, tagged Grime, music, n-dubz, number 1, number one, tinchy stryder, uk grime on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tinchy Stryder, the young prince of UK Grime has dropped another banger, and this track went straight to the top. Tinchy pulled a bit of a Nostradamus by titling this track “Number 1″ since it just reached the #1 spot on the UK 1Extra Chart, which is no small ting. Frankly Tinchy is no rookie [...]
Posted in 2009, D-Craze, Dancehall, Grime, London, MP-freeeeeee, Videos, tagged ciara, gracious k, migraine skank, nappaman, RWD on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The dance sets that accompany Dancehall and D-Craze songs are major reasons behind the success of those tracks. The recent track “Stanky Legg” by the G-Spot Boyz would surely have fizzled out long before commercial recognition had it not been for the dance craze that accompanied it. As I have mentioned before, this element of [...]
Posted in 2009, Grime, Jake, London, MP-freeeeeee, tagged bonkers, dizzee rascal, Grime, wiley, Wiz Khalifa on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently told the Zebreezy faithful that from my perspective Grime is very much a dying genre. Peep that article here.
Call it writers regret or maybe just too much blog harvesting time, but that piece motivated me to do something I probably should have done before writing that last piece; Google “Dizzee Rascal.”
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Posted in 2009, Grime, UK, Videos, tagged chase & status, Grime, kano, London, UK, uk grime on April 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
With the rise of American Dubstep, the unwillingness for D&B to end, and the persistent ability for rap to reinvent itself, UK Grime finds itself in a very fragile position. Those that aren’t aware should know that Grime is a genre of music that incorporated UK hip hop culture with UK Garage or UKG production. [...]
Posted in Fine dining, Grime, Stuff to buy, tagged energy drink, pitbull on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last couple of weeks I’ve been working in a warehouse, which is located in L.A.’s grimy Mid-City district. Being that I’m bound to such a mundane method of getting dat’ cake, I went to snag a dense sugary concoction to boost my mood but I was stunned when I saw the ridiculous price [...]
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