stop throwing your toys out of the pram. i'm not aiming that directly at you. i've read pages of people saying grime doesn't get enough press coverage. then you've got people coming on here saying vice don't rep grime properly, dazed have been supporting. i was just pointing out that the 8 page feature in dazed was paid for. i go out every month and buy grime mix cds and review them in vice.
we're on the same team guys. i was just saying it's not easy to get non-indie stuff into broadsheets. but then you came back like: well. i got a hyphy feature in. how many hyphy features do you think will be running in 2 years?
*collects toys, returns them to pram*
yeah fair enough - as elgato says you can see why i took offence, no hard feelings tho. fwiw i think vice's take on grime IS a big contribution, but i think it's important this is complimented by coverage in mags/papers with different demographics.
you misunderstood why i mentioned hyphy - we've been saying the same thing all along: the reason everyone *did* go for it lately - my piece included - was cos of novelty value (as you say, ridiculously, given how long it's been around), same reason dizzee got coverage and the meeja went nuts for grime in 2003.
but while capitalising on editors' perverse obsession with novelty i think it's only fair to keep pushing to change that ignorant approach, to challenge the notion that there are no stories in grime right now... like elgato said earlier the narratives there are easily the equal of whatever indie band have an album out that week.
being realistic is one thing, but there's no reason to give up on the press. i want people in suburbia to read about the movement mixtape because they could end up liking it as much as the game or fiddy or whatever US hiphop they're lapping up. is that so idealistic?