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Ya hear wretch at the gates when he heard scorcher might not be released for a few hours, "I say we just breeze out" long face on the car ride there, awkwardness. That's not the way you behave when ur excited for your boy to come home. If you know you know. His energy was off, that wasn't a real relationship n wretch proved that when he done scorcher dirty.
Ok it’s been long enough mate? Where the set up load? Want EZ, Kurupt Fm & Barely Legal b2b One Man Sets, Ruff Sqwad would be sick but I know the crowd are too young to even appreciate them or know their bars, plus by the look of this clip, Tinchy, Roachie & Fudaman ain’t even there (joke tiny)
In American rap style, the jazz element and the gospel element is used where the voice itself is used as a musical instrument. Think of jazz scatting and the old school Black American preacher. The old school Black American DJs did this as well. The voices went up, down, paused, held words like holding notes, hushed, or went loud, etc... I knew it was something that was missing in UK Grime. I just couldn't place it. It's the lack of instrumentation in the voice. As some grime artists started crossing to the American scene, you start seeing them use their voice in this way and the English accent is not as pronounced.
So, this style definitely combines Jamaican toasting with American style rap. Because Jamaican toasting doesn't fall in sync with a beat at all. It's just fast talking over music and a lot of it is almost incoherent to the untrained ear. The American rap style influence comes in with the lyricism and rhyming. Uk style has a faster frequency, a lot of lyricism, and a longer string of words or more bars. It's like saying 500 words in one breath.😂😂😂 The emphasis is on the ability of the performer to shoot out bars at rapid speed and have dope lyrics. The beats and overall music sounding good are secondary. This is why early grime beats had a lack of African/Jamaican style polyrhytmic drumming sounds and the base was sparse. So as not to take away from the performance of the person speaking. This style lacks "rapping" in sync with the beats. This style lacks a melodic flow where the voice box is not being used as an instrument itself. There's no complicated or complex rhythm to the sound in the voice. It's rhyming but just straight shooting bars. No ups, downs, or turns in the voice itself. The style is the same. The only way you know it's a different performer is by the voice. Alrighty then.
Where were your Black DJs during your early formative years of Grime? It's as if every Grime documentary I watch, most of the rappers are Black but most of the DJs are White or Other. And, I hate to say it, but the beats just always seemed to clash together and were off rhythm and the synthesizer sounds took front row to the point you could hardly hear the rappers. It sounded more European techno. I mean no polyrhythmic drum beats at all. These dudes rapping are African and Caribbean and you mean to tell me none of those sounds you hear in this DJing at all.
Risky for me is the single most legendary name in Grime, and that's no disrespect to any artists, but the hours this man put in and gave us a piece of history is crazy, Salute Risky 🫡
