That's really cool, but not entirely unexpected; the Metro seem to pick what music they're going to cover completely at random. It'll be Britney and Rhianna one day and a page-long feature about Slint or someone the next. There's a cool interview with Toddla T on Prancehall right now actually...Terror Danjah and Chipmunk were reviewed in the Metro today, and Toddla T(!), the latter semiunrelated but what the fuck.
On this weeks show I did think Skepta was alarmingly bad! Really if this is the best that Grime can come up with these days it's in deep trouble. Skepta just doesn't have a "voice" like for instance D Double or Wiley do. He also doesn't have any lyrics. And he also doesn't seem to have any beats.
I'd forgotten about Skepta a bit in the last few months as I've been so into Chipmunk/Griminal/etc etc, and I didn't get his album for ages. But I listened to it the other day and it's fire! There's a bit of me that was worried that he'd make an album as good as Dizzee or Goodz but because I've heard half the beats and most of the bars before I just wouldn't find it exciting, but that's not the case at all. Track ten (I don't remember the name, but the one with the 'stay far away from Joe' chorus) is a bit dull, but everything else on there is brilliant. Me and Woebot must be listening to someone different, because I still think that he's one of the most distinctive characters in the scene...