[Closed] What is 'Grime''?

Here you go:

You need some cillit bang

Is that you at 1:38 Flossie?

Think of it as British rap.

I love this guy's stuff. One of Wiley's krew I believe. I'm well too old for it though, me.

And Flowdan

It's pretty big in Huddersfield aswell

It's a british version of rap, which in turn is a shit version of hip hop.

Grime is soooooo last Tuesday.

It’s all about Drill now, innit bruv?

It's a sub-division of "Some Bloke Droning On About Something Or Other" music.

Only, done really fast.

Well its not on any Top Gear driving anthem compilations.

Just make sure you don't confuse Grime (quite often hook based) with Road Rap, it's an easy faux pas to make when discussing hi fi systems, prog rock and when music was better.

I really like this

Tongue and Groove is what the kids are all listening to 😉

My Uzi!

It’s actually a sort of modern YTS scheme started by Iain Duncan Smith to try and reduce benefits payments to the yoot of saaaaaaaaaaaaaahf laaaaaandan

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I'm in to skiffle 'n bass nowadays. Yafeelme, yeah?

Me woman jus ask me turn fi heatin down a lickle bit.

Me say, Man not hot!

Truss.

So it’s rapping then? I’ll stick with Ugly Duckling, B. Dolan and Phil Most Chill.

Truss?

Mmmmm.  You wouldn't want any further swelling at those temperatures.

[i]So it’s rapping then?[/i]

Not really. It’s grime. The language is different, the accents are different and the production is different.

Thing most in common with rap is that there are bad ones and good ones - ie. ones you’ll like and ones you wont.

I’ve had a liten to some drill, but I didn’t like the production on the stuff I heard - it is a lot closer to rap with British accents. Might have to try some more.

[i]My Uzi[/i]

wtf is that supposed to be referencing? Go back to your Dire Straits albums eh.

The average age on this site is 60,perfect place for the question huh:)

Nah, not really to my taste, me being a working class white boy from North Wiltshire!
I’ll stick with Kate Tempest and NWA, ta.

It appears to be some kind ofosub gener that just sounds like absolute shite..

Easy. Don't listen to it then.

I don't listen to Dire Straits, either...

It’s a british version of rap, which in turn is a shit version of hip hop.

Show me a good hip hopper and I'll show you a good rapper 😉

Although it's interesting that you seem to be contemptable of a bunch of guys who are quite skilled at, you know, playing actual musical instruments...

It appears to be some kind ofosub gener that just sounds like absolute shite..

😀 go on Andybraaaaad!

Gibberish Recital Irritating My Ears .

Innit.

Although it’s interesting that you seem to be contemptable of a bunch of guys who are quite skilled at, you know, playing actual musical instruments…

So you like all genres of music played by skilled musicians? God, how boring.

Oh, do I?

here we go!!!

So it's a form of rap performed by British southerners putting on dodgy accents. For the first time I'm actually glad I'm aging

Grime was actually started as music for mobile phone speakers. Listen to it on some decent speakers and it really is a bit much.

Likewise, real musicians who play instruments need to be listened to on a decent sound system, preferably in a room with good acoustics (i.e. a chill out room designed for listening to music). Otherwise you miss all of the nuances.

Mr Woppit did you mean Uzi Lover. (Probably NSFW)

I find the affected accents and vocal delivery even more tortuous than British prog.

That takes some doing.

[ijdid you mean Uzi Lover[/i]

Chris Morris’s Ice Cube tribute/parody from over 20 years ago? It was bloody funny, but on a thread about grime. Yeah, brilliant.

Grime was actually started as music for mobile phone speakers.

Never a truer word...

For the full effect you need to listen to it on the top deck of the159 between Brixton and Streatham Hill, played on a phone speaker.

Happy days.

Shit rap performed by ignorant South Londoners who don't have the musical ability to produce hip hop.

It's almost like they managed to extract the last one percent of UK garage that wasn't utter shite, discarded it and then managed to make the leftovers worse.

I do wish people would stop making up new names for tired old genres just because half a dozen "artists" have decided to all use the same sample.

South London does harbour some talent.

[i]Grime was actually started as music for mobile phone speakers[/i]

Never heard that before! Sauce?

Thanks everyone,

Well, now I feel enlightened. But it's really not my cup of tea!

ill stick with my blues based rock on what the kids describe as 'Dad Radio'!

Must admit though, DJ Smile Rocks (I was previously aware of his work prior to this thread!)

Anyway, this is more my taste...

Nice to see Vicky Pea back on the forum after her brief hiatus.

[i]Shit rap performed by ignorant South Londoners who don’t have the musical ability to produce hip hop[/i]

Probably the single most clueless piece of shite I’ve read about music on stw, and you’ve certainly got some competition.

Anyway, OP should go to Wikipedia to ask questions like that, not a bunch of old fogies repeating the same stuff generation after generation churns about new music that upsets their delicate little stuck in the past earoles 😁