GRIME- breaking news, gossip, slander, lies etc
Glacial 718
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it's the best. the sequences where he does new bars, flops them after a bit, then tries them again with slightly adjusted flow/intonation are truly special and should be cherished
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
I didn't like it. I thought he sounded out of practice, thought Slim's beats in the 2nd hour weren't gelling with him and it just sounded like a mess. Sorry. I wanted to like it.
rubberdingyrapids
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i thought the total opposite. was surprised how fresh and limber he was sounding. better than ive heard him in a while actually. i liked that bit where he said all the old producers were going to come back again. like, what was the last thing danny weed did?
owengriffiths
Owen
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Novelist is on the front cover of Mixmag and hosts the issue's CD as well. I'm not sure why the attitude to do that is here now wasn't there a decade ago when Grime was probably bigger profile but I'm not complaining. The CD is alright as well, it'll probably go well over the heads of many.
CrowleyHead
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Aim High 3, but tbf that's more a representation of the time, all those bad electro crossover tracks, people who still thought Devlin could rap... Dark period.
rubberdingyrapids
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thats amazing. yeah i dont understand whats happened, except that grime is 'safer' now. not so scary. plus all those big american co-signs help obv. people like annie mac supporting skepta etc also helps a lot. novelist working with mumdance also helps. hes also not so big and scary. he looks like someone hanging around dalston. which slimzee didnt.
rubberdingyrapids
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CrowleyHead
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who cares
rubberdingyrapids
Well-known member
thats a reasonable response. though it is kind of a big deal. im guessing its more a ceremonial/PR thing than an official deal. cant really see drake letting jme decide how to release his next album.
CrowleyHead
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Every single from this album is trash, the album tracks will be trash, the deep cuts will be trash, Drake is making money, Skepta was clearly never dropped from the label that encouraged him to make top 40 aspirational rap singles. This will do 17 thousand album sales, all of which Drake will make profit off of, and then BBK will be let go two years from now when Drake has the ability to veto singles and all their buzz is squandered.
"Hahahah, oh no... Skeppy... Big bruv *chortle* That's not viable. Can you do this song with Rita Ora? Its a MAD TING *cackle giggle* Oh my goodness!"
Its becoming a puppet figure of power for corporate figures like Drake to milk him for his 'cool' and any off-chance of financial reward. If its a deal for the whole roster Wiley's safe, but JME's career is now regally fucked thanks to his brother's stupid need to try and be a star when he isn't frankly talented enough, nor has the right sense of career. Thank god nobody gives a fuck about Frisco or Jammer or it'd be a downright tragedy.
At the end of the day though, Skepta doesn't make good music, and he barely makes grime, so #whocares.
"Hahahah, oh no... Skeppy... Big bruv *chortle* That's not viable. Can you do this song with Rita Ora? Its a MAD TING *cackle giggle* Oh my goodness!"
Its becoming a puppet figure of power for corporate figures like Drake to milk him for his 'cool' and any off-chance of financial reward. If its a deal for the whole roster Wiley's safe, but JME's career is now regally fucked thanks to his brother's stupid need to try and be a star when he isn't frankly talented enough, nor has the right sense of career. Thank god nobody gives a fuck about Frisco or Jammer or it'd be a downright tragedy.
At the end of the day though, Skepta doesn't make good music, and he barely makes grime, so #whocares.
rubberdingyrapids
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i mean, its prob a given that the skepta album will be crappy, bar a few songs here and there (youre wrong that he doesn't make good music though, and that he barely makes grime), but this deal in itself is interesting. at least for the next 24 hours.
CrowleyHead
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One of those singles isn't grime. Its a mid-tempo rap single aimed for what would've been "American College Radio" 15 years ago. Prior to this he made a mixtape that was essentially just a mediocre rap mixtape. He isn't interested in the scene as a greater network, he's only interested in maintaining his connection to it as an aesthetic separation from actual rap and making him seem left-field enough that he deserves press attention while still keeping one awkward foot in whatever's cool and makes it seem like he's got a finger on the pulse.
Skepta is barely a grime artist anymore, especially when you figure in the fact that he's not interested in making music as much as being servicable content. No other reason for making "Shutdown", its an average track, I enjoy it when its pitched up, but its there to ride the wave of Drake's meme as much as it is function as a radio hit.
Skepta is barely a grime artist anymore, especially when you figure in the fact that he's not interested in making music as much as being servicable content. No other reason for making "Shutdown", its an average track, I enjoy it when its pitched up, but its there to ride the wave of Drake's meme as much as it is function as a radio hit.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Cheers Luke anyone got this on mp3
And thanks Tom I might have to think about that I quite like dance tunnel
