viktorvaughn
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See, I want to like Rules and Regulations; it's full of undisputably good songs, but it just doesn't excite me in the same way previous Roll Deep stuff does. And I think you just hit the nail on the head as to why. One of the things I love most about grime (and MCing in general, but there aren't so many hiphop MCs that go on like that now) is when you get sustained periods of rapping, where it just feels like you'd have to physically tear the MC away from the mic to get them to stop. Like they just can't stop themselves. Obviously you get that vibe on radio, but also Wiley on Nightbus Dubplate or the Graveyard freestyle (I'm assuming that's the one you're on about, off Creeper 1) and Dizzee on something like Give You More. There's just nothing that exciting or unique on Rules and Regulations, it's all so structured and consise and restricted. Which isn't what grime should be about, I don't think.
Yep agree 100%. It sounds restrained, which i don't think is a good look for grime.