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Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 3:55 PM
Grime is really, really inconsistent. It would seem the all of the Grime i actually like, technically falls into garage and speed garage. Lady Sov, Dizzee Rascal...thats about it really.rnrnBut then most of the stuff that i can't place in a genre, and as a result lump into the grime category, is pretty terrible. Virus Syndicate, Akala(more garage then grime, i guess, but still shitty), Crazy Titch, Skepta(obviously is easier to find shit grime then it is to find good grime, if it exists at all).rnrnAfter listening to a whole slew of different artists and styles i can basically say this, Grime is everything that is absolutely shit about Ghetto-tech, combined with everything that is absolutely shit about UK hip-hop. They mash it all up and throw in some sound-effects from '70s cartoons and push it onto the masses of england, and boy do they eat it up. However, every once in awhile one or two good artists actually make it through and aren't discredited by shitty production or forced label conformity(So far, as i can tell, it's only been two).rnrnGrime, essentially, is recycled, rehashed, bargain-bin, chavfed garage with a side order of simple and boring lyricism, terrible video direction, and even worse production.rnrnBig up the Garage. Fuck Grime.
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