Well, we were a bit clueless when we saw the latest episode of PocketTV. What on earth is Grime, other than something you’d tackle with Flash? After a quick visit to Wikipedia, we found the following description from The Observer:
… ‘grime’, a hybrid of American rap and Jamaican dancehall filtered through Britain’s rave scene and powered by a raw punk energy all its own. Grime’s first big star is Dizzee Rascal, whose Mercury Award-nominated album Boy in da Corner described a jagged, disenfranchised world alien to the experience of most Britons. Last month, Dizzee’s mentor Wiley – the undisputed king of this new scene – followed him into the limelight.
So really, ‘Grime’ has made it’s debut a long time now, but it’s only five years later we at WAPS HQ realise there’s a bloody name for this genre! Anyway, we’re quite taken by Kano in this interview (he wears his marigolds with pride), so we decided to share his new single ‘Rock N Rolla‘ with you.
Are you a big grime fan?
CHRIST just when you think the use of autotune can’t get any more ridiculous something like this comes along. Unlistenable!