spooky girlfriend
Wild Horses
i've only recently started listening to guns n' roses vol.2, and i'm surprised.
i don't really watch channel U, but i'd imagine many of the tracks on there are U-friendly.
Ruff Sqwad to me are another example of the versatility of the grime template, lyrically and musically...at one point there's even a melancholic love song of sorts, it's a sentimentality that i'm not used to in grime though it can be very emotionally resonant.
there's a very good track about materialism and if money can bring the respective MC's happiness.
it all just begs the question why hasn't grime achieved the mainstream success the skill and talent that go into making it deserves? some tracks are positively hip-hop esque, and we all know what mainstream success did to that musical form...most underground stuff is tedious and the mainstream is just a parody of itself - obsessed with celebrity, wealth, power and sex (incidentally a perfect antithesis to this is ODB's first album, when hip-hop was still coming out with fresh talent)...
i don't want grime to become successful and go soft, nobody does, and you almost feel it is in safe hands with likes of Wiley and the original crews; but i'm enjoying the diversity i am discovering. in particular it seems the dubstep DJ (plastician, tubby)/ grime MC combo will never get old!
i don't really watch channel U, but i'd imagine many of the tracks on there are U-friendly.
Ruff Sqwad to me are another example of the versatility of the grime template, lyrically and musically...at one point there's even a melancholic love song of sorts, it's a sentimentality that i'm not used to in grime though it can be very emotionally resonant.
there's a very good track about materialism and if money can bring the respective MC's happiness.
it all just begs the question why hasn't grime achieved the mainstream success the skill and talent that go into making it deserves? some tracks are positively hip-hop esque, and we all know what mainstream success did to that musical form...most underground stuff is tedious and the mainstream is just a parody of itself - obsessed with celebrity, wealth, power and sex (incidentally a perfect antithesis to this is ODB's first album, when hip-hop was still coming out with fresh talent)...
i don't want grime to become successful and go soft, nobody does, and you almost feel it is in safe hands with likes of Wiley and the original crews; but i'm enjoying the diversity i am discovering. in particular it seems the dubstep DJ (plastician, tubby)/ grime MC combo will never get old!