Logan Sama
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It's fucking Grime
No journalist ever named it Grime. garage DJs called it Grime. It was Grimey.
No one ever told me I play Grime, I said it myself.
And if you make music which you give to me to play first to promote on my Grime show, and then go on to sell in the Grime section of underground stores like Uptown, Rhythm and UKRS.... guess what! You make Grime too!
You are not special. You are not unique. You are just another MC who spat bars on Rinse/Deja/Heat like all the rest. You are not the saviour of british music who will lead us all into a new golden age. You just make music that some people like. And you did that in the Grime scene. That makes you a grime artist.
People need to stop fighting it. Embrace it. Being called Grime does not impede your sales, having no promotion, marketing nous, organisational skills or conversational skills is what hinders you from selling. That and carrying yourself like all the other "urban youth" that middle england crosses the road to avoid. The name is nothing, it is the image you portray which is associated with that name is what fucks you over.
And regarding newspapers? Fuck them. I am not bothered anyway. What Grime pieces are they going to write? "Grime scene continues to plod on after boom of 2004"? "Full run down of the three Grime events YOU can go to this year"?
They write about the big artists when their alums come out, that is good enough for me. I dont need to see Grime in the Grauniad or the OMM. I'd rather see it in the NME or HHC or New Nation. Other relevant publication geared towards people that would conceivably love Grime, not take a passing interest because it is an interesting quaint new thing.
And for fucks sake, if you want any information regarding anything in Grime I am not hard to contact. The email and myspace addy is clearly displayed. Shout me. Ask me stuff. Pick my brain. That's why I exist for. I am a DJ. I am the eternal middle man of Grime.
Complaining about the lack of mainstream coverage of grime is like complaining about the lack of 6 figure album deals for grime. It is painfully obvious Grime doesn't deserve either yet. but that doesn;t mean it should be covered and invested in on a sensible scale.
Grime the name is perfect. Pirate radio studios are covered in it. The deck plates and mixers have a healthy coat at all times. Jammer's basement studio walls are covered in it. Your neck back is covered in it when you come out of a REAL grime rave. There's nothing wrong with being dirty. Most of middle england would pay big money to pretend they too are dirty, you just need to entice them that it's not too dangerous to be so. Make it enticing. People pay hundreds of pounds to wade through piss shit and mud at glastonbury and stand in moshpits with other stinky matted-haired middle class student folk. It is made appealling. We just need to find a way to make standing in a room with several hundred other people who all start pushing each other about and jumping up and down when I switch in Tempa T dubs is appealling instead of people being scared of getting stabbed.
No journalist ever named it Grime. garage DJs called it Grime. It was Grimey.
No one ever told me I play Grime, I said it myself.
And if you make music which you give to me to play first to promote on my Grime show, and then go on to sell in the Grime section of underground stores like Uptown, Rhythm and UKRS.... guess what! You make Grime too!
You are not special. You are not unique. You are just another MC who spat bars on Rinse/Deja/Heat like all the rest. You are not the saviour of british music who will lead us all into a new golden age. You just make music that some people like. And you did that in the Grime scene. That makes you a grime artist.
People need to stop fighting it. Embrace it. Being called Grime does not impede your sales, having no promotion, marketing nous, organisational skills or conversational skills is what hinders you from selling. That and carrying yourself like all the other "urban youth" that middle england crosses the road to avoid. The name is nothing, it is the image you portray which is associated with that name is what fucks you over.
And regarding newspapers? Fuck them. I am not bothered anyway. What Grime pieces are they going to write? "Grime scene continues to plod on after boom of 2004"? "Full run down of the three Grime events YOU can go to this year"?
They write about the big artists when their alums come out, that is good enough for me. I dont need to see Grime in the Grauniad or the OMM. I'd rather see it in the NME or HHC or New Nation. Other relevant publication geared towards people that would conceivably love Grime, not take a passing interest because it is an interesting quaint new thing.
And for fucks sake, if you want any information regarding anything in Grime I am not hard to contact. The email and myspace addy is clearly displayed. Shout me. Ask me stuff. Pick my brain. That's why I exist for. I am a DJ. I am the eternal middle man of Grime.
Complaining about the lack of mainstream coverage of grime is like complaining about the lack of 6 figure album deals for grime. It is painfully obvious Grime doesn't deserve either yet. but that doesn;t mean it should be covered and invested in on a sensible scale.
Grime the name is perfect. Pirate radio studios are covered in it. The deck plates and mixers have a healthy coat at all times. Jammer's basement studio walls are covered in it. Your neck back is covered in it when you come out of a REAL grime rave. There's nothing wrong with being dirty. Most of middle england would pay big money to pretend they too are dirty, you just need to entice them that it's not too dangerous to be so. Make it enticing. People pay hundreds of pounds to wade through piss shit and mud at glastonbury and stand in moshpits with other stinky matted-haired middle class student folk. It is made appealling. We just need to find a way to make standing in a room with several hundred other people who all start pushing each other about and jumping up and down when I switch in Tempa T dubs is appealling instead of people being scared of getting stabbed.
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