Eski be frisky, grime be prime, allow it

[imomus]

Sum of u might ov herd my man Eno say bak in tha day "Da future be grown mans shoutin poetry". Or sumfin like dat. Sure enuff boi, blud woz bang right, dun happen innit? UK 2 step garage become Eski an Grime, an dem toonz be well sik. Future soundz be ringin thru da London manors right now. Seen? Allow it.

Videos

The Streets Get Out of My House MCs Remix



Dizzee Rascal Off To Work

Dizzee Rascal Graftin

Kano Ps and Qs

Wiley Pies

Roll Deep Wot Do U Call It

Lethal B Forward Rhythm

Audio

Roll Deep

Tinchy Strider Move

A Lil Grime in 4/4 Blend

Lethal B Forward

Calling Boyz The Forward Rhythm

Lingo

Sure enuff boi datz wak! Sum ppl tink dat coz dizze an artist he a saint.... hmm dis article proves dem rong init! i gotz nuff respect 4 Dizzee tho, hez choong pluz a sik artist

sum of u mite of heard of G- Hop it s G-hop Kings view on culture!!

Yeh flat out tune! Itz got tha cred 2 b re-released!

lue lid is deff the best. if you cant hadnle it you should just lyk not drink milk or somehtin

alow it or deny it

cum shoodnt we be buyin da toonz so we cn keep da doors open for uk talent emerge !! wot do u rekon an do u tink Kano will mak it big?

flirta bangd him up at diewinder bashy neva did nuffin cos he was wid 2 mans n ghetto was wid bout 30 mans he jus murkd him init but i thot bashy wud have got kikd in alie??

ma bredrin goes tah him '' wot happened 2 yah teeth?'' he goes ''oh im gettin platium 1s'' she woz like ''oh seen''

REPPIN DA NORF MANORS 4 LIFE

Art, innit?

A new exhibition in Whitechapel, London, is the first to take the grime scene to an art gallery. The new Bezerk exhibition in Whitechapel features pictures of heads from the scene such as Wonder, Roll Deep and D Double E (who is also getting his own portrait painted in Berlin – more on that in the new RWD magazine out Friday. Brap!) shot and exhibited for London’s art world to marvel at. Shot predominantly by resident RWD photographers Tim & Barry, the exhibition also features stuff from Jeremy Deller (he won a Turner Prize… me neither…) and work from our good friends at cult magazine Hardcore is More Than Music. If you wanna get down there and check it for yourself, it’s on from 6-9pm (Open Sat – Sun 1-6pm) until the 12th March at Whitechapel Project Space, 20 Fordham St, London, E1 1HS (Tel. 02073776289).

Radio

Rinse FM

Writings

Urban Renewal blog

Ghettopostage

Stylus

Gutterbreakz

Woebot Eskimo Dance

UK Garage discussion forum

Not Eski

Hypo featuring Momus Timecode

Devvi Bangheart

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm surprised - not disapproving though - that you have time for this stuff, as after reading your posts on the UK (specifically London) I'd have thought grime was largely borne out of what you dislike about English culture right now, no??

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's macho and violent and proud of its own brutality. And yes, I'm into girly art, and friendliness. Grime videos take place in a hellish nocturnal world where groups of weapon-wielding youths block your path and holler indecipherable slang. It's perfectly horrible in reality, and yet transmuted into art it can become something coldly exciting, like A Clockwork Orange, something futuristic and dystopian.

That said, I like the comedy end of the spectrum, where this stuff becomes witty narrative balladry set to synth string hits and intriguingly programmed drums. Give me this stuff over dreary emo guitar music any day -- it's much more original, and it speaks a musical language of sampling and sequencing that I'm familiar with... familiar enough to hear how freshly it's being used in these records.

I guess there's an element of bourgeois tourism in my relish for the strange lingo, the glimpses of a seamy, scary world, the black inner city world, that I don't have much access to. I respond to this is somewhat the same way I listen to The Fall. It's grotesque; both appalling and intriguing. Shadowy future-gothic baroque.

[(Anonymous)]

They're also sort of very romantic and emo, though. in a way. yeah i know, the whole "bitch stop calling me" is not very romantic, but it's there soehow

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks. If I had the distance from the UK that you have I might be able to agree, but it's just too close to home right now.

I've only had the briefest acquaintance with Japanese rap; do you happen to know if it's as agressive, misogynistic as the US variety Momus??