CrowleyHead
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Yeah there was a generational shift to occur as well. A lot of the guys who became names in Drill in the 67/Spartans axis specifically were people who had come up underneath the first names in Road Rap such as Blade, Teflon, Mental K etc. Original Road Rap lacked that because it was such a slower moving scene sonically because it wasn't under the international scrutiny, it was moving at a pre-Social Media pace even (itself a whole other pace even from pre-Internet (even if Social Media existed at that time it hadn't become the necessity of measure)). So you have the old footage of the guys in 67 at the beginning of the decade and it's a whole diff. beast.
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Ironically in this era they sound so much more indebted to Chief Keef and US drill than the more popular 'jump-out' material. They were a great foil for the sort of psychedelic vibes of Carns Hill starting to go into sample transforming and his 808 kick lines, which are honestly still so much more aggressive than a lot of US basslines.
That said they were never going to be elevated per se until they already formed their own thing in which watching the older generation try to 'hang' was a bit foolish so it became a whole new movement and style. But unlike the prior generation, they actively encouraged and included the younger talent to join their ranks and swell their numbers. In the case of say, BT and Rendo scooping up Skengdo and AM it worked out great (R6 and ST in 67, less so) but it effectively created a void in their scene where now instead this generation is starting to conform back into the earlier forms, or as well into the afro-swing movement that served as it's foil/rival (moreso than the Grime revival which has clearly proven to have less of a street grounding than it ever did before). There won't be a new movement per se, which is a shame because there was a lot of consideration to hybridize it occuring last year and take it into different directions and it's aborted for the most part.
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Ironically in this era they sound so much more indebted to Chief Keef and US drill than the more popular 'jump-out' material. They were a great foil for the sort of psychedelic vibes of Carns Hill starting to go into sample transforming and his 808 kick lines, which are honestly still so much more aggressive than a lot of US basslines.
That said they were never going to be elevated per se until they already formed their own thing in which watching the older generation try to 'hang' was a bit foolish so it became a whole new movement and style. But unlike the prior generation, they actively encouraged and included the younger talent to join their ranks and swell their numbers. In the case of say, BT and Rendo scooping up Skengdo and AM it worked out great (R6 and ST in 67, less so) but it effectively created a void in their scene where now instead this generation is starting to conform back into the earlier forms, or as well into the afro-swing movement that served as it's foil/rival (moreso than the Grime revival which has clearly proven to have less of a street grounding than it ever did before). There won't be a new movement per se, which is a shame because there was a lot of consideration to hybridize it occuring last year and take it into different directions and it's aborted for the most part.