I wasn't really gonna return to this thread, but in the spirit of me putting off what else I gotta do, I will.
Re: my Run the Road 2 review, I wasn't proclaiming the death of grime, but rather that I can't see it crossing over in it's present form, which a lot of people once believed that it could and would and were justifiably excited about. I think it maybe sez something about current above parapet grime vivbility that it was a review on Stylus that people got upset about rather than something in the more established, famous print media! I really haven't seen reviews of RTR2 anywhere, except, I think, FACT (by someone from this board.)
Re:grimey chart success, Roll Deep may have got a number 11 w/'The Avenue' but I don't think a lot of people who bought it particularly bought it as a grime record or associate it that strongly w/the grime scene. Similarly if 'Shake a Leg' gets to number one for 11 weeks I don't think it'll be a victory for grime per se bcz it's as much a Chas'n'Dave style novelty track as a grime track, or at least that's how it'll be received/consumed (and that's not a diss, I really like it!) Plus other grime chart success - Kano 22 and 25 (and that for one ft. Mike Skinner), Mitchell Bros nowhere, Lady Sovereign 33. 'Pow!' got to eleven after I heard loads of talk about how it was gonna be number one and Bizzle's last single got nowhere. So I don't think The Avenue counts for too much. Of course Trim or whoever might come through with an album that is fucking great or sells fucking great or both and I hope they do...
Is it not fucking insane though that you have someone like Wiley, whose ice cold titles Eski period was prob. the best body of work being made at that time, in the WORLD not just in grime, and it isn't readily available, except on p2p (well, I know some pieces turned up on his XL lp but it's not the same.) Why isn't there a 2cd comp., vocal versions and instrumentals. Just on the basis of THIS IS WHAT I'VE CREATED he should get it out there! Tons of amazing music is going almost undocumented and I think that this'll continue until in 10-20 years it'll start getting bootlegged. Just like the 60s garage punk scene, or a lotta 70s UK and US punk until those Killed by Death comps, or 70s funk seven inches or etc. etc. etc. It's nuts.
Also, everyone on Dissensus is polite! Almost unheard of on the internet, eh.