I was also thinking about literally house every weekend rinse fm pop.
how old are you barty?
It exists at that point in time anywhere anyone is playing the radio.
And the shoreditchification of london is a huge part of the story in any case. This stratification that occurs within the demographic, different poles pulled in different directions without the centre holding.
Tottenham makes a bit of a mess of this theory
There's two major things that this carefully pretends never happened. One we discussed which is the rap end of road rap and the other is the move to house every weekend house every weekend.
The african middle class.
Business management courses. Twitter bio's thanking christ. a framed photo of your graduation hanging on your mum's mantle piece. contempt for the white man not as agents of babylon but hedonistic savages.
but all of it a mask.
stepford wives music. hygiene music.
morally superior to drill in every way and yet so much more repulsive. alluringly so.
but arguably it was a different contingent of tottenham in grime than the one in drill. a more middle class one.
in 2007 i can categorically say that if you took the whole of England you'd find more black working class people listening to indie rock than grime.
wow.
north london is a magical, foreign world to me.