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any of you british cats heard of this dude? whats his deal? ive heard his name around, but know nothing about him. any good?

i keep thinking him and tinie tempah are the same person and i dont know who that nigga is either

Edit: does that kid blizzard from dont flop have any music out

The name of Icesickle's band?

Employee wrote:The name of Icesickle's band?

Tinchy Strider made a dubstep version of 'Uptown Girl' that I used to jam to

this is CRACK

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Piff Tannen wrote: i keep thinking him and tinie tempah are the same person and i dont know who that nigga is either

there was a moment when I thought that tinie tempa and tempa t were the same dude.

he's been around for a while. some of his grime stuff is excellent. like all grime mcs.. i have very little interest in anything he tries outside of that arena
this one is a classic

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does he have full grime related projects? where would one start if they felt like starting to check the shit out?

He's shit. As are about 95% of MCs that came out of the grime scene.

haha, i've not seen you post positively about one rapper in the last like, ever, but duly noted. i dont know shit about grime rappers. aside from the guys from the dont flop battle league, british rap to me is SAS, the streets(who i hate) and lady sovereign, who died in vietnam

Piff Tannen wrote:haha, i've not seen you post positively about one rapper in the last like, ever, but duly noted. i dont know shit about grime rappers. aside from the guys from the dont flop battle league, british rap to me is SAS, the streets(who i hate) and lady sovereign, who died in vietnam

The last wave of really good UK stuff was probably around 2000-04, then grime came along, then that pretty much died when they all started rapping over Guetta style shit and doing the Top 40 thing.
These days it seems split between the older artists who are still doing the keep it real boom bap thing (some of which isnt too bad) and the more 'street' new shit. I dont like all of the following but these would be the ones who have dropped stuff recently and made some noise

Low Key
Kyza
Piff Gang
Wretch 32
The Four Owls
Stylah
Fallacy
Ramson Badbones
Roots Manuva
Klashnekoff
Jehst
Dubbledge
Reveal

Here's a mix of older stuff I knocked up a while back and post here about once a year when someone mentions UK rap.
http://www.mixcloud.com/soulfocus/dj-st ... -bubblers/
http://djstepone.blogspot.com/2009/03/d ... s-mix.html

thats what im talkin bout, good lookin out man, ill check that mix out and go from there. i remember hearing about roots manuva from back in the day

have there been any uk hip hop threads? if not, someone should make one, or even a few international hip hop threads, could be interesting

This is probably the best blog for updates on new UK stuff

http://ukallday.blogspot.com/

Grime is dope as fuck but I know shit about it.

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G'yeah, bruv. Get me. Allow it.



Dizzee Rascal is cool, and actually one of the best live emcees I've ever heard. Get familiar Piff.

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Step One, what ever happened to the So Solid Crew? Were they pre-Grime? I seem to remember the term Two-Step being thrown around.

i'd cosign klashnekoff and roots manuva, only two brit rappers i ever really enjoyed for more than a song or two

oh, i have dizzee rascals debut album, i really liked it, but i didnt know where to go from there, so i just went back to my trap rap shit :(

wiley is the GOAT grime dude.
roll deep/boy better know, NASTY crew are worth checking out. most of the best guys have/had some affiliation to one of those crews

I love grime and the way those guys rhyme and I can't stand UK americanized hip hop.

that first dizzee rascal album literally blew my mind. It's one of those moments when you are listening to music the kinds of which you've never heard before. the way he rapped, the way those beats are so atonal and stabbing, I still love that album a lot.

DLG wrote:I love grime and the way those guys rhyme and I can't stand UK americanized hip hop.

that first dizzee rascal album literally blew my mind. It's one of those moments when you are listening to music the kinds of which you've never heard before. the way he rapped, the way those beats are so atonal and stabbing, I still love that album a lot.

My thoughts exactly.

if you want to hear a bunch of grime MCs with different styles going off, this is one of my favorite tracks

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English Frank though....

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Hes got a mixtape out now too but I dunno if hes really suited to making songs.

Moolah wrote:

DLG wrote:I love grime and the way those guys rhyme and I can't stand UK americanized hip hop.

that first dizzee rascal album literally blew my mind. It's one of those moments when you are listening to music the kinds of which you've never heard before. the way he rapped, the way those beats are so atonal and stabbing, I still love that album a lot.

My thoughts exactly.

Word. I think the second Dizzee album is great too.

Tinchy is, in many ways, a terrible mc and most of what he does these days is indefensible, but his first album, Star in the Hood, is a classic to me. I find the production on it to be pretty amazing, it's a weird mix of glossy and rugged, and Tinchy does nothing to get in the way of it.

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I was never a fan of Dizzee, mainly because his voice annoys the shit out of me.
He's much better as a pop star than a rapper if that makes sense. Had a few huge radio tracks and is doing very well in the mainstream.
His Newham Generals crew seem to stay doing the more underground stuff though (not really my thing either!)
The only grime dude I thought had any real skill as a rapper is Kano

Heres some other UK shit worth checking

New K-lash over 'The 900 Number'
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Classic early 00s shit. Fallacy is one of the best MCs in the UK. Shame he's pretty much retired. I swear Timbaland jacked this for Luda's 'Roll Out'
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Four Owls album is worth checking for boom bap tings
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Low Key for the Immortal Technique/Dead Prez fans
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Kyza & Wretch 32 freestyle
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Im not really a Wiley fan either but his influence on grime (and dubstep I guess) is pretty much unparalelled.
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Piff, You wanna edit thread title to UK Rap ?

i cosign a uk thread

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Big fan of the older stuff from back in the day, i kinda lost any heavy interest from 2002 onwards i guess.

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Sorry, can't embed cos I'm a retard but will contribute to a UK thread....

London Posse - Money Mad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOOcUBwqFxI

Klashnekoff - Murda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGJd1LwQ64

Malik (MD7) feat. Margs & K Koke - Word on Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyCF0hvPCs

K-Koke - Grass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZz3Jd5j ... re=related

Skibadee - Tika Toc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0wTvJif2go

Shimm-1 & MD7 - It's Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msxJzTpRcIY

Huh, no love for Lewis Parker here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWWcx11dWgY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9RxqXZ9bxk

This is probably one of the greatest grime sets of all time.

can someone upload that star in the hood mixtape?

Here you go:

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|211l3 ... 16|R~0|0|0

As a bonus, Jammer's Are You Dumb Volume 3, another personal classic:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzzo0tuuy2y

Some tunes from it:

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etc.

Brrrrring fooorth the guillotiiiiiine.

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If you want a mix that was really typical of the UK sound in the late 80's/early 90's then check out this Luke Vibert mix.

http://www.mixcloud.com/player/?from_widget=1

Artists like Silver Bullet, Gunshot, Overlord X, Demon Boyz etc. The beats and rapping are fast, very much influenced by the electronic music (acid and jungle) that was popular at the time, combined with influences from ragga and US Bomb Squad-esque hip hop production.

For me, it was definitely the best period for UK rap. Quite distinct to what was happening in the US, and the precursor for Grime.