Who remembers when Kano tried to be Kanye West?

[Black Mamba]

Like half the cast are rappers.

I just learned he was a couple of weeks ago lol

 

[mson]

Well that tunes a load a shyt now innit?

 

[u mad son?]

Yup. It went through an identity crisis, recall tuning into Logans show around that time and most of beats being played were car boot sale trap beats

yeah you was there... fukking hated that era man.

It reminds me of when Tim Westwood went from nas, Jay, dmx and dipset to laffy taffy and jeezy.

That era of music had me genuinely sad

 

[u mad son?]

Facts...

Manga got rushed at my college one random weekday cos he got too loose with his mouth I'm not even from London, I don't know why the fucc he was in Luton that day lmao

The grime era was great. Everyone was a part of it and it felt like everyone was trying to spit for the love of rapping.

I remember one weekend my cousin who was a full on teenage goon at the time ran up to me when he saw me in the street and was like "yo cuz, I was at a rave last night, and I saw this breh...i'm telling you, he's better than dizzee, he's better than everyone...his name is.....bruza "

Lmao ah man trust me... Stories like this is golden

Legit my first Bluetooth tune of all time off the Sony Ericsson was spaceship... Jme and skepta.... Me and my boys would be quoting devilman quotes off LOTM from school to the end of college.

I feel like everyone who was there at that time even in london slyly knew devilman took that clash.. Rolled up one man up and put in hella golden one liners

Edit : bruza held his own vs titch in that clash tho

 

[Boogie]

Legendary grime artist from the foundation era.

Mandem got good tunes

 

[Black Mamba]

That’s why Bron left yall nikkas a second time
Uncultured swine!!!

 

[ChatGPT-5]

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.

Skepta is legit, but I remember that rolex song

Chipmunk had a pop song too, I think with Chris Brown lol.


the best grime duo atm imo




forget the optics, close your eyes and tell me this aint bars

 

[WaveGang]

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.

This was a tune still ngl

 

[WaveGang]

You can fucc right off because those drill youts did something that not my generation, nor yours or the previous ever managed to do and that was actually build a music industry for themselves that didn't live and die off the most successful talent of that generation.

You lot have 0% idea what UK Drill has done for UK music and it's fuccin jarring.

Thi is false. The drill utes didn’t make an industry

UK road rap started in mid 00s, then evolved and propelled platforms like grm daily/sbtv/link up. Which is when the labels started taking notice around the 2008/09 times signing acts etc.

The platform was already there for the UK drill kids. They were getting deals off videos with 20k views etc. and by 2013ish the YouTube platforms like press play etc we’re signing 16yr old drill artists for slave deals.

So no

 

[Malcy86]

Mate I hear that but I don't in the same breadth because they became examples of the old style music industry that's been around since time began. When Dizzee was popping it was only him that was allowed to pop. When So Solid was popping...as soon as they started to fall off the record labels told the garage lot to fucc off and so on and so on etc etc

I guarantee i'm more educated than you erect bell3nd.

Imagine being a grown adult and talking about understanding 'real hip hop' you p3nis...fucc off i bet you're one of those respectability politics pull yourself by your bootstrap dullards lmao.

Absolute jokeman being on a hip hop website trying to chastise someone about the use of slang. The level of lack of self awareness, and then you've got the nerve to talk about someone else's lack of education

Was a 3 bottle of wine night. Was on my high horse. Apologies.

 

[QBN]

Mandem got good tunes

3 Wheel Ups

Skepta is legit, but I remember that rolex song

Chipmunk had a pop song too, I think with Chris Brown lol.


the best grime duo atm imo




forget the optics, close your eyes and tell me this aint bars

Nah fam! I mean respect to the old geezers for doing their ting, but I can't believe they wrote those bars. And it will always been seen as a comedic, joke ting by most because it's two old white men rapping. I'm not up on the latest grime, but there has to be yutes making better music than this, lol.

 

[Ricardo Gardner]

 

[ChatGPT-5]

3 Wheel Ups

Nah fam! I mean respect to the old geezers for doing their ting, but I can't believe they wrote those bars. And it will always been seen as a comedic, joke ting by most because it's two old white men rapping. I'm not up on the latest grime, but there has to be yutes making better music than this, lol.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Ruff Sqwad Guns n Roses vol 1 and 2 are probably my favorite Grime projects outside of Boy in the Corner and a few Ghetts albums.

 

[gho3st]

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

British rap is superior to us rap as rn. At least they dont all sound the same