When grime music reaches its highest point, it carries with it an intangible science. An energy that can’t be defined via streams or hard data. Something that although hard to explain, it is felt in the deepest pit of the stomach. It happens here when Logan Sama lines up a beat for Skepta; all gunshots…
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Music is a conduit for expression and grime is no different. In fact, I’d wager that ninety per cent of the joy and satisfaction that the genre can bring is when an emcee transmits a feeling from their bars. Whether it’s pulling back the curtain with fourth-wall-breaking realness, getting off a technical set of bars…
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I’d usually write in-depth articles on the grime tunes that catch my ear, but a busy schedule has taken precedent, so I’ve decided to present a few tunes I liked from the past few days in a quick-fire list format. This COVID stuff is crap, so I hope everyone is keeping safe and feeling good.…
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It’s not everyday grime on The Art of Grime. I was scrolling Twitter on a very late weekend before bed and ran into “Dualities” on the timeline, a two-track EP from West London emcee Space and singer Ana Barrena. Space is a young emcee and producer with a fair bit of material out there, the…
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Manga Saint Hilare has been dropping tracks from his forthcoming project “Make It Out Alive” for a few weeks now, with features and production coming from Izzie Gibbs, Silencer and Trooh Hippi. The latest from this run of new material is ‘Thoughts & Prayers’, which features Novelist on the guest verse and is produced by…
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Razor is a grime emcee from Hackney with a couple of releases under his belt. The “Homegrown” EP was released back in 2018, but he’s kept the material coming, dropping singles over the years with production from a host of names that orbit the grime and dubstep axis. His latest track – titled ‘Run’ –…
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Mez has been spitting for at least six years, coming to prominence alongside Jammz, AJ Tracey, Big Zuu and MicTy at a time where it seemed as though emcees were on the radio every night. His style is an all-encompassing one, engulfing every corner of the track like a tsunami, waves of lyrics crashing down…
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GHSTLY XXVI returned to music in the closing months of last year, and he’s been consistent ever since. He’s been drip-feeding the bangers at a steady rate, covering various subject matter and adding an extra dimension with quality videos. ‘Business‘ and ‘Chat‘ demonstrated his soundman style and finesse in full effect; ‘Trust‘ proved he could…
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Queenie is a grime MC from London who was active in the early era of grime, featuring on this Practice Hours freestyle with Lioness. She also featured on the absolute banger ‘Grab That Mic‘, an all female link up track, that, in hindsight seems gimmicky in execution but goes hard nonetheless. After a brief break…
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The formula for an eight-bar rally is simple: any number of MC’s, a banging instrumental and maximum screw faces the minute that the track is played. From Pow to Southside Riddim, the format has been a staple since the birth of the genre, giving a platform for MC’s to spit their best lyrics over a…
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