captain easychord said:
i haven't heard that many hip-hop tracks that attack a blanket "you" the way grime tracks do.
with the greatest of respect, isn't almost all street-oriented hiphop based on talking about how "you" aren't as good as the mc and how if "you" try and step he'll blast "you"? for example, "nigga please, nigga you ain't signing no checks like these" was the first line that came to mind.
its pretty much the one thing i've come to hate the most about us hiphop - the complete genericness of constantly dissing everyone/no-one by talking about "you". its such a fucking cop-out, trying to big yourself up by reference to a non-existent rival/competitor/foe. be sad to see it happen in grime, but as far as i've seen its generally done a fresher way, maybe because we know that they are talking to a limited number of potential 'you's ie just the grime community?