etymology of "grime"

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it's that smelly shit you get under your fingernails that you just can't help sniffing ;)

...but there was the rehplex compilations and before that I think dillinja was bandying it about to describe his sound I just thought it was UKG rebranding itself after the bad press it got about violence and beef

sorry dunno, but like you keen to find out...

chur
 
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Logan Sama

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Matt Jam Lamont and EZ started calling the beats "Grimey" on EZ's show on kiss. And grimey became a regularily used word to describe the music.

And that black stuff u get under ur nails is prevalent on most decks and mixers and microphones in every pirate radio studio or basement recording studio. It's quite a fitting description of the surroundings from whence the music came and is performed in contrast to the shiny new West End studios being used and the Luminar/First Leidure clubs being played in by the "old school" garage pioneers by that time.
 
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bun-u

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NORE's tune 'grimey' might've played a part - I remember it being on heavy rotation when grime mcs started saying things like 'it's grimey out here'
 
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Matt Jam Lamont and EZ started calling the beats "Grimey" on EZ's show on kiss. And grimey became a regularily used word to describe the music.
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They used it in a derogatory sense though, right? As in "we're not playing any of this grimey shit" or words to that effect - and then it was taken up as a positive tag by the nascent grime artists.
 
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spackb0y said:
They used it in a derogatory sense though, right? As in "we're not playing any of this grimey shit" or words to that effect - and then it was taken up as a positive tag by the nascent grime artists.
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EZ didn't use it in a derogatory fashion, no. He was still playing a lot of the new beats on dub then. I am sure MJL was being tongue in cheek.

And it had nothing to do with the Nore or Dillinja tunes, or even the So Solid tune of the same name.
 
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I remember a load of journos writing garage record reviews pre-grime referring to 'UK Filth'.

I'm glad grime stuck instead of that...
 
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i forgot all about this thread
i was being a little ingenuous, having read simon reynold's review of the cold vein

As Sasha Frere-Jones quipped in these pages a while ago, El-P is something like the Steve Albini of hip-hop: fanatically opposed to major labels, addicted to noise. Extending the analogy a bit, you could imagine a few years down the line the emergence of a rap equivalent to grunge ("grime," maybe): underground in style and sound, but hooky and forceful enough to storm the barricades of Hot 97 and BET, thereby terminating the entire bling-bling era (hip-hop's equivalent to hair metal). And a few years after that, El-P will be drafted in—to render radio-unfriendly the postbreakthrough album In Wu-Tero by spearhead grime-rappers Gnosis . . .
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so yeah, is that it?
 
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