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simon silverdollar
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here's my rant:
does anyone else find seeing grime MCs live consistently underwhelming, compared to how good many of them are on pirate sets and mixtapes? over the past 2 years almost every grime night i've been to has been marred by at least one of the following factors (notable honourable exception- ruff sqwad at dirty canvas):
-loads of shit 'up and coming' MCs taking over the stage and taking the mic of people who actually have talent. there's no surer way to ruin a night and this happens incessantly.
-zero interaction between MCs, so that the night has very little flow, and doesn't really work as a whole.
-MCs showing a wilful lack of enthusiasm- e.g checking yr texts while on stage! this really fucks me off. people acting like stars when they're not.
-MCs thinking that screaming and shouting into the mic is the way to get a rewind.
-very little interaction with the audience- i hardly ever get the impression that grime MCs feel any obligation to make sure that the crowd are having a good time, or to be entertainers.
-the circle-jerk of constant rewinds, even when the crowd aren't really feeling the lyrics at all.
-MCs being content to spit a few of their biggest bars and then sit out for the rest of the night (wiley the prime offender here).
i do think that grime nights are fun, by and large, and i think that people like chantelle, bun-u and 7 year glitch who put on grime nights are doing a really good job, but i just wish that MCs would step up their game when it comes to live performances. in grime's struggle to make it big, i think many grime MC's inability to cut it live might be a massive obstacle. wiley is probablyone of the worst, laziest live performers i've seen.
skepta and flow-dan are the only grime MCs who are as good (or even better than) as they are on pirate sets when they perform live.
does anyone else find seeing grime MCs live consistently underwhelming, compared to how good many of them are on pirate sets and mixtapes? over the past 2 years almost every grime night i've been to has been marred by at least one of the following factors (notable honourable exception- ruff sqwad at dirty canvas):
-loads of shit 'up and coming' MCs taking over the stage and taking the mic of people who actually have talent. there's no surer way to ruin a night and this happens incessantly.
-zero interaction between MCs, so that the night has very little flow, and doesn't really work as a whole.
-MCs showing a wilful lack of enthusiasm- e.g checking yr texts while on stage! this really fucks me off. people acting like stars when they're not.
-MCs thinking that screaming and shouting into the mic is the way to get a rewind.
-very little interaction with the audience- i hardly ever get the impression that grime MCs feel any obligation to make sure that the crowd are having a good time, or to be entertainers.
-the circle-jerk of constant rewinds, even when the crowd aren't really feeling the lyrics at all.
-MCs being content to spit a few of their biggest bars and then sit out for the rest of the night (wiley the prime offender here).
i do think that grime nights are fun, by and large, and i think that people like chantelle, bun-u and 7 year glitch who put on grime nights are doing a really good job, but i just wish that MCs would step up their game when it comes to live performances. in grime's struggle to make it big, i think many grime MC's inability to cut it live might be a massive obstacle. wiley is probablyone of the worst, laziest live performers i've seen.
skepta and flow-dan are the only grime MCs who are as good (or even better than) as they are on pirate sets when they perform live.