Who remembers when Kano tried to be Kanye West?

[ChatGPT-5]

 

[HollywoodP]

bruv needs to stick to servin fiends fewd fam.

 

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

Kano’s the man.

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Yeah grime had lost its way at this point and has barely recovered

 

[Duke_Droese]

That's some dikkhead shyt bruv

 

[DapMeUp!]

That was a dark time for UK music, but you had to make dumb watered down shyt like this back then if you wanted to make any serious money or get radio play.

These new Drill kids don't know how good they got it now.

 

[QBN]

One thing about UK Rap & Grime is that virtually all the OGs have really bad pop/commercial songs in their catalogs while at the same time making hardcore tunes and crazy bar spitting. Like Skepta made this

But was also capable of this

And when they made pop songs it seems like the fan base just went and waited for them to come back to authentic music.

 

[raoulduke187]

this shyt embarrassing

 

[Black Mamba]

This gotta be an ad bruv
Gotta be a skit or something fam
ALLOW THAT BULLshyt

 

[Low End Derrick]

That whole techno craze circa '09

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Them nikkas diluted the sound just to chase a quick buck.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Cringe cuts. I think that Roll Deep and the Godfather of Grime, Wiley himself were the biggest offenders. Dope ass mixtapes and radio sessions but then drop some shyt like this for the album.



The thing is I don't even remember most of these pop cuts being popular with the mainstream either. Course' I don't live in the UK but followed Grime religiously in the early 2000s.

 

[Cool DOC]

Mans was muuving mad.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

The only British rapper we respect is 21 Savage

 

[Iceson Beckford]

And when they made pop songs it seems like the fan base just went and waited for them to come back to authentic music.

Because people should have enough sense to understand the context of those times. The world and technology has changed so much that media be accessed by different groups without the usual channels.

Those Grime Mcs had given years of their lives doing music for nothing, when they signed those deals, they had way less creative leverage than people do now.

We don’t get what we have now without people keeping the lights on during those times.

 

[Malcy86]

Cringe cuts. I think that Roll Deep and the Godfather of Grime, Wiley himself were the biggest offenders. Dope ass mixtapes and radio sessions but then drop some shyt like this for the album.



The thing is I don't even remember most of these pop cuts being popular with the mainstream either. Course' I don't live in the UK but followed Grime religiously in the early 2000s.

fukk right off. The avenue was great.

I don’t remember this Kano one. I’m actually annoyed you brought it to my attention!

(Not you Pegasus)

Problem with UK hip hop is once it hit late 00’s early 2010’s it just didn’t know what it wanted to be anymore. I used to love homegrown stuff then grime came and I thought “oh shyt this works” then this drill shyte came along and the culture behind it fukking stinks and is one of the reasons the UK and it’s youth are fukking trash.

I only listen to old UK hip hop now and somewhat ‘novelty’ stuff like Pete & Bas or The Northern Boys who I saw live last month and was as good as ANY hip hop artist I’ve ever seen live.



The rhetoric that UK hip hop has to be grimes and real and from the streets is fukking crap that needs to fukk off.

Every artist has shyt songs. No matter where they are from. But the his Kano one is proper embarrassing. Too many people set out to emulate others instead of pushing their own sound.