CrowleyHead
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The beats sound weird because he's a rapper making beats out of grime samples.
Matt, did you see him on that Mistajam session with general levy, jammer, JME, Skepta etc.?
The exuberance, and... I dunno, joy is palpable. Reminder of what a loss he was to the scene.
sure, dizzee sounds like all he listens to these days is rap. but i would say it was prob always like that, its just that before there was something he could/needed to funnel that into that would make it something different (ie grime). so if theyre isolated, well its not hard to see why in 2014. same goes for kano, doogz, etc. they were all prob into the same stuff back in 2004, its just that theres less need for them to put those influences into something different, so it comes out as straighter rap. you dont seriously think kano or doogz sounded like 'rappers just doing grime' back in 2004 do you? if you cut off all the guys supposedly 'only into hip hop' or 'trying to be rappers' from grime, you wouldnt be left with very many MCs.
if you cant enjoy jammer on a set, even doing ancient bars, well then you dont really like grime, lol.
he's constantly colliding all over the place in them.
jammers face.
Matt, did you see him on that Mistajam session with general levy, jammer, JME, Skepta etc.?
The exuberance, and... I dunno, joy is palpable. Reminder of what a loss he was to the scene.
Fact is kano and ghetto were grime before grime existed because they were in that friendship group. I heard sets of his when he was 14. He didn't make cynical career decisions about it
His flows aren't made to compliment or navigate beats, he's constantly colliding all over the place in them. Same with Ghetto, who almost always in early sets manages to derail everything because he's clearly under the impression that Grime is The Cypher and you're supposed to just freestyle wildly and aimlessly and magically that beat is going to sync up to your flow once or twice in a while.