Queenie ft Lioness & Stush – This One Queenie has been consistent this year. She’s been releasing a steady flow of tracks, videos and freestyles on her YouTube channel, each contributing to a growing back catalogue. Her style is straight forward: grab the mic and go hard. It works because she has the lyrical ability…
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Yorkshire might not be someone’s automatic choice when thinking about British alternative music, but from industrial to bleep techno and bassline, people from the county have contributed their fair share to the canon of underground music in the UK. Grime is no different, with a steady supply of emcees coming through the ranks in their…
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Manga Saint Hilare is a grime lifer. His entry into the game – like many emcees of a certain generation – came courtesy of Wiley, who after hearing the young Manga spit over a voicemail, inducted him into Roll Deep without seeing him in the flesh. It stands to reason that red carpets and notoriety…
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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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Owlybeats – The Dark, Vol.2 Owlybeats is a producer from Bolton who makes judgement day grime that rumbles the headphones. His latest EP – titled “The Dark, Vol.2” – is a five-track record that fits into the trap-inspired, spine-tingling grime from the same lineage as Filthy Gears, Trends, Silencer and more. Opening track “Ghost Train”…
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Big up all the artists this month. There were so many great records released in March, I had to split this article into two parts. Covering all the bases here, over the two articles there’s vocal grime by spitters with different things to say, melodic grime, 8bar grime, super-dark grime and grime at higher tempo’s.…
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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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The majority of the grime class of 2015 have now become fully-fledged artists. Jammz has cemented himself as an underground champion; while AJ Tracey has broke barriers commercially, even if his sound has changed over the past few years. Of course, there are plenty more emcees from this category who have gone on to achieve…
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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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