Tagged: grime
Video: Darq E Freaker f. Danny Brown, “Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)”
The first day I met Danny Brown at home, reporting for his cover story in FADER #78, was the same day Dizzee Rascal released his DirteeTV.com mixtape, and one of my first notes was Brown … read more »
Download Dizzee Rascal’s DirteeTV.com Mixtape
One of the most secretly influential MCs of the last decade, Dizzee Rascal, has released an official mixtape to showcase his label’s talent. With just one exception, which actually doesn’t feature Dizzee, the tape avoids … read more »
Zdot, BeatGeeks and Wariko’s Puddin N Treacle Mixtape
Grime has always been an enigmatically localized musical phenomenon in spite of its global exposure. You could make the argument that this is because, on top of the distinctive rhyme schemes and post-garage rhythm production that … read more »
The Streets Seizes Guardian Music Blog, Releases Alleged Last Song Ever “Close The Book”
We already knew that the staff of the Guardian’s Music Blog have an excellent relationship with Hercules and Love Affair. Now we also know that they’ve also got a bigger conference room than us, and … read more »
Seven Years in Ten Minutes: “Pow 2011″ vs “Game Over”
Way back in 2004, Lethal Bizzle jumped on Dexplicit’s Forward riddim with the lights of grime’s then still rising global status. “Pow,” the resulting track was one of the songs included in every non-UK journalist … read more »
Wiley, “It’s Wiley” MP3
The blending (or watering down) of dancehall with other musical genres has slowly been securing its footing in Jamaican music. While producers have started to tag new hybrid forms of dancehall with meaningless additives like … read more »
Video: Kano, “Spaceship”
Kano‘s amazing for writing a track about a woman’s desire to escape her low self-esteem by shooting into space, at least we think that’s what it’s about. Is it weird, though, that we can’t watch … read more »
Video: Newham Generals f. Skepta, “Bag of Grease”
Not sure who said “the game is dying,” but clearly damaging grime vets Newham Generals are breathing well enough to SPIT SEVERAL IF NOT MANY HOT BARS ON THIS SONG, YALL. There’s no way these … read more »
Video: Shakira f. Dizzee Rascal, “Loca”
Pretty standard frolic-at-the-beach fare, with Shakira body-rolling and doing various “loca” activities, including riding on a motorcycle with some random tattooed dude and dancing in a public water fountain. Needs more Dizzee. Still, we’re still … read more »
Premiere: Bang On!, “Hands High” MP3
Brief nerd-out: in Y2K, Big Dada dropped this comp called Extra Yard that completely broke open our minds. A precursor to grime’s stateside blowup a few years later, it tried to coin the term “bouncement” … read more »
