Sadmanbarty's guide to Post-Grime London

[sadmanbarty]

It's very pronounced. Have you specifically picked ones out to fit with your thesis?

no, but of course my own taste is a selection bias in and of itself.

 

[luka]

The park was amazing today. Like stupidly good then come back and it's Christmas Day. I had a haircut. I look beautiful. What a great day.

 

[luka]

How did you engage with the first generation of road rap? How invested in it were you? How did you hear it? Where did you go looking for it? Did you have mates feeding you, did you think it was too dumb or what was going on in those days?

 

[luka]

Slackk was the big person here pushing rap. He did two compilations that a lot of us listened to I've told him to stick is oar in this thread let's see what happens

 

[sadmanbarty]

How did you engage with the first generation of road rap? How invested in it were you? How did you hear it? Where did you go looking for it? Did you have mates feeding you, did you think it was too dumb or what was going on in those days?

obviously heard it around, but it wasn't really something i had any remit for. i was too young, funky was popular.

gigg's 'look what the cat dragged in' was the way in. it was absolutely anthemic and ubiquitous. the soundtrack to us fully leaving childhood. only kartel's suprpassed giggs in terms of reverence in my lifetime.

 

[luka]

This is a great example I just found of something

 

[sadmanbarty]

Slackk was the big person here pushing rap. He did two compilations that a lot of us listened to I've told him to stick is oar in this thread let's see what happens

that does absolutely nothing for me.

the stuff in my playlist isn't actually 'rap'. it's an unnamed genre all of its own. uk bashment. dancehall rhythms. much faster than rap. uk rapping style.

 

[thirdform]

yeah classic. though i never heard it on the radio.

 

[luka]

You've done a really good job at pretending that stuff didn't happen. At the time it was very hard for me to see past that kind of thing. I'd look around every once in a while see something like that and go are you mad have some self respect

(The gorilla thing)

 

[luka]

that does absolutely nothing for me.

the stuff in my playlist isn't actually 'rap'. it's an unnamed genre all of its own. uk bashment. dancehall rhythms. much faster than rap. uk rapping style.

Yeah you've done a brilliant job of identifying it and ring fencing it. I like that song a lot though.

 

[luka]

yeah classic. though i never heard it on the radio.

Funny how it does seem to be very inarguably a classic carved in stone all of a sudden

 

[sadmanbarty]

You've done a really good job at pretending that stuff didn't happen.

this is my nod to it

 

[sadmanbarty]

Funny how it does seem to be very inarguably a classic carved in stone all of a sudden

it's because i said it was the protect ya neck for a generation of londoners. i magicked it into classic status.

 

[luka]

Yes I know mate I noticed

 

[luka]

Thing I love about akkie listen is it's the haunted version of dipset oh boy.

 

[luka]

Corpsey reading thread EDM vs disco what are you doing corpse that's the wrong thread

 

[luka]

We're having a party. It's like Jools Holland New Year's Eve special

 

[sadmanbarty]

The giggs thing wasn't a real solution to the problem of the accent.

giggs important thing was finding an accent (or lack thereof) that let the africans in. uk mccing had been so jamaican-centric during the nuum age, that it was untenable in this newly african london.

giggs was undercover in peckham learning how to be an african. he discovered their voice for them.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Corpsey reading thread EDM vs disco what are you doing corpse that's the wrong thread

i'm fine with him not engaging while he's on holiday.

but i'll be fucking heartbroken if i get nothing once he's home.

the lex luger and afroswing sections were exclusively catered for him

 

[thirdform]

the gloomy ambient pianos of course the curse of this, just like the ecstatic pianos curse of rave.

That doesn't mean pianos are invalid, yet there does seem to be something crossover in that instrument when integrated into electronic music and that doesn't help the london infrastructure.