http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1798
AllHipHop.com: A couple of years ago, grime was supposed to be the next big thing in Hip-Hop. They were even two compilations released in America that had contributions by you on it. Now that it’s out of the spotlight, did you suspect it would fade out?
Plan B: Well, there was never any quality to grime. Garage, where grime came from, had a quality, because you had 40-year old producers that’d been doing it a long time. Grime is gangsta garage where motherf**kers are rapping gangsta lyrics over garage beats and because the whole culture was guns and knives and people getting stabbed and shot at raves, all the big producers got out of that scene. They didn’t want to produce it anymore. Then the music industry jumped on grime before it even had time to become anything good. Suddenly, you had all these 18, 19-year old kids who didn’t know about the equipment they was using and started making beats on their Playstation 2, burning their beats off of the computer and then onto vinyl. They weren’t mixing it or nothing. That was the production! Of course it’s gonna die out. Grime is dead.
AllHipHop.com: A couple of years ago, grime was supposed to be the next big thing in Hip-Hop. They were even two compilations released in America that had contributions by you on it. Now that it’s out of the spotlight, did you suspect it would fade out?
Plan B: Well, there was never any quality to grime. Garage, where grime came from, had a quality, because you had 40-year old producers that’d been doing it a long time. Grime is gangsta garage where motherf**kers are rapping gangsta lyrics over garage beats and because the whole culture was guns and knives and people getting stabbed and shot at raves, all the big producers got out of that scene. They didn’t want to produce it anymore. Then the music industry jumped on grime before it even had time to become anything good. Suddenly, you had all these 18, 19-year old kids who didn’t know about the equipment they was using and started making beats on their Playstation 2, burning their beats off of the computer and then onto vinyl. They weren’t mixing it or nothing. That was the production! Of course it’s gonna die out. Grime is dead.