It has, yes, but I don't really see the correlation in terms of the popularity of that to a burgeoning South London rap scene that's been hanging around for ages.
you can buy real cocaine easily and relatively cheaply so why be a crackhead?
that skit where the racist boy says he hates black people but loves giggs is a bit weird
There's a certain merit to regionalism when taking all this in as well though. As much as it hasn't completely eliminated people listening to American hip-hop, there's certainly an underground mixtape scene here of which Giggs is simply the tip of the iceberg.
For me as a long term hiphop user - y'know, I was at Roxanne Shante and Biz Markie gigs back in the day - grime just changed everything for us in the UK.
It's hard I think for that to translate; culturally the US was so endemic here - y'know, and rightly so, hiphop has been just this amazing thing, I'm so lucky to have been born during it - that I think it's hard for someone in the US to have the sense of relief that certainly I felt when a home-grown scene came up in London that was MC-led, let alone what the music was doing. And gradually I stopped buying the hiphop mags, stopped going on the sites, hiphop just ceased to be relevant anymore, y'know from a neoist perspective not from a pop one.
Doesn't mean I don't still listen to it, but that's what I meant when I said paucity. Maybe that's not correct, but from the perspective over here the focus totally shifted.
My favourite moment from Fuck Radio is that Devlin bit, 1:20 on this clip
Yeah, I figured this was the case, but I wondered if there was maybe more to it just because it seems that some people are like super-anti hip-hop in favor of grime.
right, i found their myspace;
http://www.myspace.com/gforcecamp
and that they've got a CD out, "No Mersh";
http://www.ukrecordshop.com/item/g-force-camp-no-mersh.html
Which looks FUCKED but there's none in stock. You can buy it through their myspace on paypal in theory but fuck that because I don't trust it.
I've got this, bought it ages ago from UKRecordshop because it had D Double & Jammer on it. I haven't listened to it for a while.
I will have a listen now.
Got a bad tem-pah, and my gang’s with it (chyeah), If I click it it’s only cos my hand fidgets (click). I aint talkin’ poppin’ by when my gang visits (visits), if I catch your pussy face imma Stan Smith it (nngh!).
Stan Smith from American Dad?
Got a bad tem-pah, and my gang’s with it (chyeah), If I click it it’s only cos my hand fidgets (click). I aint talkin’ poppin’ by when my gang visits (visits), if I catch your pussy face imma Stan Smith it (nngh!).
Stan Smith from American Dad?
Sounds just like Pound Sterling and Bones, also from Lewisham. Is it the same crew of people?
Their Beat Robbery CDs about 4 or 5 years ago were pretty good UK gangsta.