10/10 albums that are never talked about here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7XipJGYWc
>>66442137
not a 10/10 and it's been talked about for years
there not talked out because everyone knows there god-tier
>>66442137
seen them all here
>>66442157
>Carl Dobson (born 31 January 1983), better known by his stage name Crazy Titch, is an English Grime MC who is currently serving a life sentence for murder
kek
>>66442184
crazy t is the real deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUL_OBdyUcM
I LUV U U U U
I LUV U U U U
>>66442204
>constant gun sfx
>funeral march
>merked bitch
masterpiece
>>66442240
It's a sick instrumental sure to tear up any dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k96ymK-YYbw
Best protest album since punk prove me wrong
>>66442137
>>66442227
FIFTEEN SHE'S UNDERAGE THAT'S RAW
JUS A RASCAL
HE'S JUS A RASCAL
>>66442337
AND AGAINST LAW 5 YEARS OR MORE
I SOCIALIIIIIZE IN HACKNEY AND BOW
>>66442351
DIZZEE RASCAL
So is anyone going to start this thread?
>>66443172
fine geez
>>66443186
...still waiting
>>66442204
>>66442157
Am I the only one who doesn't get this guy? Or a great amount of this genre?
Like grime in general has great production a lot of the time that's really interesting and shit, but then you just get these guys yelling incoherently over it with absolutely no rhythm or flow and repeating the same word or phrase at the end of every line. And it gets praised non stop.
And people say "oh it's the culture you don't get it" but there are genuinely great rappers who ride grime beats really well with actual decent lyricism like Ghetts, Kano, Dot Rotten, Rocks FOE, etc yet shite like Crazy T is acceptable.
And why do they never release music? People say grime will never break thru in America because they don't get it or whatever, but Skepta's overseas success shows otherwise. Shit, you've even got people like AJ Tracey getting shows in the US nowadays. The reason grime isn't successful overseas is because they don't fucking release any music.
Most of these guys aren't doing anything groundbreaking, they should be able to put out at least a couple mixtapes a year or an album or something. But most of these guys have been around for at least a decade and have one or two albums to their name if you're lucky.
>>66442137
>british rap
>anything above a 4/10
>>66442137
Cringe
This
>>66443275
>>66443275
You LITERALLY don't understand grime, you literally do not get it.
Grime is not about lyricism, it is not about about being a great rapper or any of that shit. Grime is what hip hop used to be, way back when it just started. It's people chatting shit over beats to entertain a club audience. If you're not good at that, you have no future in grime. And crazy t was undeniably one of the best when it came to that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZhHkpMq5Us
The MCs don't release music because that's not their job, it's not what they do. There's plenty of grime releases out there coming out every year, but they're usually instrumentals and the odd tune with an MC.
Now to get to the fucking point:
Grime is a very fractured scene.
You have the people making instrumental grime tunes for club use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caz9qK9K_Qg
You have the people trying to do something experimental with the grime sound, going towards this bait pop sound that inspired PC music or even far, far away from the club sound, that's the gobstopper and crazylegs crews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9hMCeHCH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qU0TpAr9Xw
That's the producer side of things, they release plenty of music every year.
But then you got the MCs, who I don't care and don't know much about.
Also, Rocks usually chats over trap beats, it's awful.
>>66443275
Grime is club music.
When you're at the club and you're fucked you don't want to hear the MC talking about deep serious problems, you just want something to shout along to.
I was at an eskimo dance a long time ago and Wiley was continuously shouting ESKIBOI into the mic for about 20 minutes with the occasional WHEEL IT.
It's one of the most amazing club experiences I've had in my entire life. At the end of the day, Grime is club music. It's raison d'etre is the club.
I've never seen titch, sure, but I know that he can work a floor like nobody else.
Him on Functions is honestly the tune that represents grime best.
Listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHLPU66yLFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgF5ajW_oU
At the beginning you have a short segment (roughly 8-16 bars) for introductions and mixing and chatter and at the end it just kinda ends without anything. Pay attention how the instrumental itself is incredibly stagnant, it doesn't go anywhere, it's the same melody repeated for about five minutes with the same drums and the occasional chord. This is a pattern you'll find in most grime instrumentals.
Titch's voice carries the tune, his voice progresses the tune.
Also, you can shit on his thuggish angry delivery all you want, his technique is flawless. He's perfectly on beat the entire time.
Compare this to Stormzy on the same beat, which is fucking pathetic. He has no energy and his technique is complete shit.
>>66443499
>>66443775
So basically it's sort of like hip-hop's version of Britpop?
>>66443835
kinda
it even comes with the same whiny lyrics about relationship drama and shit
Hell listen to this, do you recognize that sample?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqx9KxQfpAg
>>66443159
>>66442137
>>66443456
All talked about on a regular basis
>>66443499
>>66443775
is this pasta
>>66442137
all of them
>>66443275
>Like grime in general has great production a lot of the time that's really interesting and shit, but then you just get these guys yelling incoherently over it with absolutely no rhythm or flow and repeating the same word or phrase at the end of every line. And it gets praised non stop.
So it's like a British version of trap?
>>66444049
nah, I wrote all of this.
>>66443375
>any form of rap
>anything above a 0/10
>>66443499
>>66443775
nailed it, respect
>>66442169
>>66442137
These two albums are some of my favourite albums of all time, and it's nice to see them brought up by somebody other than myself.
>>66442137
>>66442137
XL was good for 10/10s back then
>>66443275
>And why do they never release music
Grime MCing is and always will be about raves and radio sets.
>>66442137
My brother in law is Dizzee's tour manager.
Dizzee is a p chill guy.
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