>>7280

We have youtube embedding here M8.

quiet you.

>>7281
Yeah and it's gotten to the point where /beat/ is actually utterly unusable now. Not all of us can afford fancy new computers. Hush now.

Anyway, >>7280, glad this was on page 1. I've been on a heavy High Focus kick recently, along with researching some decent female MCs, of which Britain actually produces a surprisingly good batch of talent.

I quite literally cannot stop listening to this track right now, purely because of the beat:
https://www.youtube.com/v/kVjgN34uus8

If you listen to enough Dike, I'm actually fairly sure you develop a coke habit by proxy:
https://www.youtube.com/v/JDNpYW-6Gr0
Also, you might think at first watching this video that he's just making it all up and acting like a silly little boy for the benefit of the camera. Think that, then look at the eyes. Yeah.

Nice like ensemble track, watch out particularly for Stig's verse. Everyone loves Stig:
https://www.youtube.com/v/a1XK4e2g1YQ

Girls:

Look, I know. You find it difficult to accept that females can spit. That's ok, think that, then pay attention to the line at 0:58:
https://www.youtube.com/v/wayyoXug9P8

Also rather fun for those nights when you wake up drunk the next morning:
https://www.youtube.com/v/X_7k1BCI24g

I feel like those two are rather heavily overproduced and grime-pop-y, so this is a slightly better example of Dot's ability:
https://www.youtube.com/v/apKVqPcH3L8

Envy. Pithy girl from up North. And she got produced by Akira so she must be good:
https://soundcloud.com/thisisenvy-1/envy-lazy-afternoon-produced

RoxXxan if you're reading this please marry me I love you so much:
https://www.youtube.com/v/PrFZV3AahLk

https://www.youtube.com/v/FFygsEEjZjE

PUT YOUR FINGERS IN YOUR NOSE IF YOU LOVE HIP HOP

https://www.youtube.com/v/2Asl-AnkVLU

HIP, HOP, SUCK MY COCK

https://www.youtube.com/v/V5UdKCx69to

Oh, Dike, you're such a fucking mentalist but I love you:

https://www.youtube.com/v/YRpGFi8-0FE

CAUSE I DON'T WANNA KNOW IF YOU DON'T LOVE THIS
I'LL JUST OPEN MY NOSE, POKE COKE UP IT

>>7375

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8rA7_xRQQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgYrRcOnAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ODOYNAuGM

The ookie hip hop scene has always come out with decent female rappers. Why would you think girls can't spray barz, are you a misogynist?

This is a fairly decent duo, saw them live in a dingy basement performing a cypher, she has very sharp flow and had it off with a bagga man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtiMhF0ZN7g

I've rediscovered a classic grime artiste recently, he used to go by Castro, disappeared for a few years leading to rumours about his death. Now it seems he is back in masked form and threatening to drop Commercial but that's been years in the making. He went from this

https://www.youtube.com/v/Zl2G27U0n8I

to this

https://www.youtube.com/v/owlwpnNC6hU

Which is quite the parable for the UKHH scene at the moment.

>>7377
>Why would you think girls can't spray barz, are you a misogynist?

Nah m8, just aware that like all underground urban music in the UK, hiphop especially is filled with angry teenlads and 20-somethings who don't like girls trying to get into their clubhouse. Actually, they just plain don't like girls. It's kind of a thing with the hippity hoppity brigade, ennit.

https://www.youtube.com/v/aEM34zXQa_Y

>he used to go by Castro

Oh my word I know who you are talking about

>Which is quite the parable for the UKHH scene at the moment.

Every underground urban scene, love. Picture related*. That said, I went to a DEEPMEDi night* off my tits on 2CB the other week and despite the overwhelming stench of BO in the room it still seems there's a hardcore out there appreciating the 'old' sound. And dancing silly like orangutans. Good times.

_{* Who's that cheeky little fella standing at the back...? Oh yeahhh.}

I also completely forgot to namecheck Lioness the first time round; the other girls that I haven't already mentioned in the Game Over remix are all equally skilled too (well, possibly with the exception of the first two from that Ruff Diamondz trio that apparently disbanded ages ago - I still don't know who the fuck they are, but the redhead spits well). I'm divided on Lady Leshurr, though - as much as I don't dispute her flow and rhythm skills, her voice just feels a bit too high for me to get into. That said, she's a Brummie lass, so I have to rate her on principle really.

https://www.youtube.com/v/OuRTVanc0lw

https://www.youtube.com/v/ev458ENOqZY

>>7380

Dottie makes my willy hard.

Also, the best Fire in the Booth ever:

https://www.youtube.com/v/u-kwM3ro4YU

>>7381
Nah m8:

https://www.youtube.com/v/oh03JO6EFjo

My soulmate/painting partner far prefers 'conscious rap' to my preferred angry grime and silly laddish hiphop, but when I introduced him to Akala he gave the nod of approval.

>>7383

I was going to bring up Akala in this thread myself. He's been mentioned in other threads on /beat/, legitimately good artist.

>>7383

Fair dues, Akala went in hard.

https://www.youtube.com/v/EoLiMX309Pw
https://www.youtube.com/v/6dNho0h_yQQ
https://www.youtube.com/v/_rK74KYYzHo

>>7386

Go to bed.

https://www.youtube.com/v/fgmJmZIZHAU

Fucks sake this guy knows my life.

>>7386
Of all the Syntax tracks you could've linked, you don't even link the best ones!

For anyone from or who's lived in Brighton:

https://www.youtube.com/v/MUGKY1yuZRk

Subcultures 1 & 2, for anyone who hasn't yet encountered them in their stumbles across the web:

https://www.youtube.com/v/yhfD5Hh_5Po

https://www.youtube.com/v/FhqHvZ3oDTM

And also anything else off the Benny Huge album really:
https://www.youtube.com/v/TJhMCHLzvuE

+5 points for linking Rhyme Asylum too.

https://www.youtube.com/v/Pb55ep-DrSo

Also I know it's not strictly hiphop here but I'm linking FB because come on, just look at OV's face. I just want to put him in my pocket and feed him some Trill, the cheeky little chap. Everyone needs a pet rapping tiny Asian in their life.

100s of boys packed in Rex or Sidewinder or some random community centre, a grotty grime girl for ever 10 man you see, everyone walking around with the tongue twister k swiss creps on, make eye contact but don't bog at them, they have more people than you do and this isn't your area. Walk straight past, ignore the stench of African BO, that sub low bass wrecking your ear drums, it's not garage, it's not rap, no one really knows what it is or if you're going home unscathed but there is energy like no rave or shitty club night.

All of the MCs were always clashing, crazy t got a sticky bird and dizzee performed in front of a billion people, there was a stabbing every other week, no one ever knew what would go down but that was the charm of it. Say the wrong mans name in your track, you could die for it. Everyones a wanabe grimestar, everyone with a nokia, a 64 and fruit loops installed. BRAP BRAP I got a big up on deja vu fm, wasn't a waste of credit at all. the Eskimo riddim dropped and there was that quiet hype whilst it went all over Bow and the rest of london. Some twonk on limewire for the functions in the low instro incorrectly named and then it became the havana tune, didn't matter though, ruff squad came out with all the good intros

god i miss grime. and when I say grime, i mean grime grime, not that sbtv nonsense, the actual scene where everyone was making tunes and getting into fights over what someone said and the clashes, oh god the clashes.

here's the greatest instrumental ever made

https://www.youtube.com/v/odbfKeIdh-s

>>7390

You captured the scene beautifuly m8, but you forgot your video.

Eskimo?

https://www.youtube.com/v/LkdEOY0bf4U

>>7449

https://www.youtube.com/v/nICCRTMOybw

Nah, I meant to post this but there's no clean version of the instrumental on Youtube. I have it if anyone wants it, just can't be bothered to upload it now.

>>7390
That sounds shit, give me a metal mosh pit where everyone gets fucked up, helps each other up when they're down and stays/becomes mates after over this pathetic 'gangster I'll merk u rite up m9' shit.

>>7653
Yeah but what if I'm overcome with the compulsion to start furiously masturbating in the hope that maybe one of the hawt alt boys gives me some sucky sucky.

>>7653

No offence mate, but it's suburban nonsense and you've never lived.

Metal and emo are lovely and convivial because most of the people involved are from secure middle-class homes and have decent prospects. They might have their problems, but most of them are basically play-acting at being troubled souls. Grime and garage was populated by people with no money, no education and no hope. Grime was literally a matter of life or death, because most of the MCs had nothing else but a little bit of rep and a couple of streets to call their own and many were prepared to kill or die to defend what little they had.

Garage raves were a little slice of escapism, a couple of hours in the week where life wasn't about pissy lifts and broken down buses, but about glamour and excitement and freedom. Grime was something darker and bleaker but fundamentally more vital and alive, it was the youngers who couldn't get into a club and couldn't afford the Patrick Cox loafers and the Moschino shirts. People so marginalised that even low-rent escapism was beyond their reach.

I've said it so many times it sounds like a cliche, but it's true: The best MCs sound like a drowning man, like a boxer in the eighth round fighting for every ounce of breath. When you hear an MC like that spitting, you're hearing someone with no reason to hope make a desperate attempt at having something to live for. The badman talk isn't hollow, as Titch so tragically proved.

Not long after this video was filmed, Dizzee (left) became a millionaire and Titch (right) was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Richard Holmes. Even as a relative outsider, I can't begin to describe the intensity of being involved in a scene like that. When you've been so close to such extremes of triumph and tragedy, everything else seems bleached out and dull.

https://www.youtube.com/v/5gJtEC8Z514

>>7655

Indeed.

Some people have the tendency to look at the UK grime scene as mindless bragging and posturing (which it did eventually become) but there's a lot more behind it. Most of the crews came from areas which had turf wars which would often spill out into pirate radio stations and clashes. There's a shadowy link between serious crime and grime which Trident and the Home Office were all too aware of, when you hear someone's name getting called out in a track, it did often lead up to some very nasty things happening.

There often is a search for some vague ideal of authenticity in music, hence why grime was able to reverberate out from Bow to dominating UK hip hop for a while. When you have real gangsters talking about real beefs, it has so much more passion and energy in it.

Take this for example.

https://www.youtube.com/v/XS_VIy0vyu8

Skip to 2:50 and hear Big H (not harry) talk about watching someone get shot in the head and still left moving. This actually happened, he was a younger in those days but the Meridian lot shot Douglas Mullings in the head, only for him to survive. JME, Big H and other MCs were all in Meridian, this was no mere joke for them.

And Crazy Titch?

I'm still very sore about that one, as are a lot of people from Plaistow, they still scream out FREE TITCH in their tracks. He lived one hell of a life, was getting done for dangerous driving at 12, got split up with his younger brother (who went on to finally find him when they faced up against each other in a clash supposedly) and didn't run his mouth when he faced 35 years in jail for the murder of some producer who got rude. He wasn't even the one who pulled the trigger, that was his stepfather but as he wasn't willing to implicate him, he got charged with accessory to the murder.

Some say Titch lost to Dizzee, but at least he stayed true to the life he advocated. Diz is a wanker who makes a fool of himself in front of Paxman and dances around for the pound, sold out the scene which made him to make party tunes for coked out clubtwats. Fucker hasn't even come out with anything half decent since the first two albums.

Sage for the bitterness that seeps out of this.

>>7657

RIP Carlton Ned.

https://www.youtube.com/v/p9rcAzic4zE

>>That sounds shit, give me a metal mosh pit where everyone gets fucked up, helps each other up when they're down and stays/becomes mates after over this pathetic 'gangster I'll merk u rite up m9' shit.

I saw ICE T once. All the black dudes got on with his rap thing, the moshlads joined in as well. Ice came on with Body Count half way through. The moshlads upped the tempo and all that the black dudes did were either pull out knives or try to punch the shit out of whitey. Bottles were flying, got a suckerpunch in the face, plug pulled after about 30 seconds of 'Cop Killer'. I guess the black dudes just didn't get the Body Count bit.

>>7659
>got a suckerpunch in the face

So did Escobar and he died from it. Such is (or isn't I daresay) in the grime scene. That was a real shame, he was a gem in the Slew Dem crew.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248733/Thug-killed-Jermain-Defoes-brother-single-punch-faces-jail-term.html

https://www.youtube.com/v/iTeh_Za14Ug

>>7657
>sold out the scene which made him to make party tunes for coked out clubtwats
The older I get the less sense the cries of "sellout" make to me. You mean he saw an opportunity to make a large amount of money making something that lots of people liked enough to buy? What a monster.

I have never "repped" any "ends", so maybe that's my problem. I promise I'm not a coked up clubtwat though. (As far as I'm concerned only his first album was decent, though I have a soft spot for Street Fighter.)

>>7661
What are ends?

>>7655
I get what you're saying about it being a completely different demographic but are you really suggesting that threatening to stab some matey for looking at you funny constitutes having really 'lived'? That having nothing to live for except benson, crime and violent garage raves is 'living'?

>>7659
I wonder if Hacktivist gigs are like that? I guess they probably don't attract too many hardcore hip-hoppers because of the djent thing though.

>>7662
were u liv blud

I missed Boombap this year, is anyone making plans for 2015 yet? The post-summer/festival-season gloom is hitting me hard.

Would be nice to have some other heads to nod at in a field next year.

>>8645
hip hop is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_PJ03uYnx0

>>7388
I'm a Brightonite. Interesting.

Whole Cult Mountain crew are fucking great, dunno what this genre of rap is though. Codeine rap maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNhd1n9eAY[/yt]

Lee Scott is probably the best out of Cult Mountain in terms of content but check out Trellion too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8JQi8QmhJg[/yt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3oVvKLSVaA[/yt]

Piff Gang has a member from Cult Mountain too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-HFuXaJb0k[/yt]

Got a few more if anyone wants it

>>9343
Oops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNhd1n9eAY

Got some more chill rap from UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8vspbK6gQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwarO7Az6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fFuERC_MN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OepaSF7UTuc

https://soundcloud.com/hawkhouseofficial/my-mind-is-the-weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57B3_VopO0

Dr Syntax is fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiBdU0tFB0

This girl's class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvJi61wjGBw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYYYZbGEuU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKSIk7Uqvo

Anyone enjoying this whole grime revival thing at the moment? The PCmusicish beats from 2004 era grime instrumentals, reminds me of Mr SnoWman and a cloy set of effects really do set this off well. It's a shame a mixture of political posturing and chart mechanics sort of pushed Grime away from having the same success Garage, Jungle and Dubstep did, perhaps now is it's time to blow?

>>9629
It comes back every few years. Every little bubble of popularity is supposedly grime's "time to blow", though 2015 has been pretty good so far. The beef between Chip and Bugzy has been entertaining.

I think there is an actual grime thread floating around in the back of this board but I can't be bothered to find it, so I'll just drop the delicious molasses that is Flowdan's voice here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6GF4zL3JFA

>>9630
I don't know, it's been something I've been listening to from back when it was called eskibeat or speed garage or whatever and these past few months have had a bunch of releases that were all very well done. Good production, lyrics and ferocity. You've got a bagga man blowing up, Stormzy got 10 million views on a video and Skepta won the MOBO award for best video cos he bought an £80 greenscreen over a Noisily doc from his Meridian Crew days. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like it's snowballing into something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY0R505kdPA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0KNCLvmSE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_shA0_JSh4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5tdiAyZbTQ
fuck chipmunk, lowkey deaded him a long time ago

he thinks he can come back to grime now that it's a moneymaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXTG-AmzEA

this is all he will be remembered for

and just for laughs, here's D double at a wedding

https://twitter.com/M4Maynard/status/631020395743838208

>>9629
>Anyone enjoying this whole grime revival thing at the moment?
Funny you should say that, grime was blaring from all the fairground rides at the bonfire night I went to. The mrs remarked to me how fucking awful it was that grime was making a comeback. I agreed.

>>9631

I think it's strength in depth. The original dons are still about, but now there's a generation of MCs and producers who were in primary school when Risky Roadz came out. Garage and grime are established enough for people to be nostalgic about things they aren't old enough to remember. The youngers are hearing the old riddims with fresh ears.

Craig David is having a massive comeback, in no small part because a lot of his audience are too young to have seen Bo Selecta. They've heard the records, but without the baggage. Following Twitter during the Kurupt FM takeover on 1xtra was really interesting - there were loads of kids saying "this riddim is massive, what is it?" about classics like Urban Hero or Pulse XYZ. It's weird to think that people are getting a history lesson from a nostalgic parody. I think there's a real energy from that, as a new generation rediscover the stuff we all take for granted.

>>9635

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdd1NqSB9CQ

I vaguely remember jungle going through a similar revival a few years back but not to this level. There seems to be a 15 year cycle in the way things go and come back. Collective reminiscing or something or the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUB_vpjogmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxw31qlJ34g


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1PyFqwyNCs

TWO DOUBLE O FOUR

>>10233

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Us9FgXriYI

I've always found it funny how Stormzy got so wound up by Cadell's jibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51csHTnbgY

I'm finding it hard to believe that a track whose entire purpose is to glamorise robbery and home invasion just received the Best Song Award at the supposedly prestigious Mobos. I mean, what? This is the pinnacle of black culture? Okay, I guess.

>>10311
How much do you care about the MOBOS, grime and/or "black culture"?

>>10311
>This is the pinnacle of black culture?

I don't believe anyone is holding the MOBO awards as that.

>>10313
Racists are.

>>10311
I don't think you understand what's actually going on here. Abra Cadabra has been using West African Juju magic to gain fame and success. Everyone is aware of this, his rise in the UK scene has been astronomical. He went from a Blackbox to a feature with Konan in the space of a few months. A literal unknown making it that far in such short time is impossible, even in our age of viral marketing.

https://youtu.be/pqkqVSHIG8A?t=1m52s

This entire song is a diss aimed at Abz from Tottnarm about his use of Juju magic but funnily enough, a week or so after being released, A1fromthe9 is now in jail, hiding in his wing because Tottenham wogs want to kill him. Abz got called out on his witch doctor shenanigans so he put a spell on his enemy (tbf, his enemy deserved it for tainting the UK scene with American drill/trap influences). Whilst the gang beef between Tottenham and Edmonton has been going on for decades now, somehow Tottnarm has the upper hand even after fracturing over some top figures getting arrested.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/20/pentonville-stabbing-victim-better-man-jamal-mahmoud-card

This death happened a few weeks ago and it's one of the Edmonton lot being killed, which was a major victory for Abra Cadabra's people. A series of wins in such a short succession is highly unlikely, he must be getting help from the supernatural.

https://youtu.be/QQIw4BOw-v8?t=1m24s

He is called out on it here and you could tell by how his face changes that he didn't like it one bit. It's clear to see from his drawl and zombie expression that he is using some kind of Mbiam. I guess the award really did go to WSTRN before Abz pulled it back onto himself with his magic words. The label he is with is Ounto nation, which means food in one of those African languages, it probably has something to do with that.

Everyone is being hoodwinked, he uses the same Robbery verse from his original Blackbox in every single one of his major hits. It's literally the same bars. It must be Juju, I'm sure of it.

>>10316
Ounto (spelled Cunto in Somali) means food, and we know what food means. Besides, Ghanaian Juju is different to Somali Sixir. Somali Sixir is more Arabic than the African juju. So mate, you are chatting wet.

Have I ended up on /iq/ by mistake? Fucking drug magic lore and warlocks and shit.

>>10317
Yes. Sixir is a variant of Ruqyah which is more like white magic anyway. Funnily enough, ISIS were beheading the practioners of Ruqyah, regardless of the colour of their magic. There's varying degrees of evil within magic, so there is both good Juju and bad Juju. These evil spells, amulets and potions are intricately linked to crime. The rise in knife crime within that area is probably due to increased warlock activity. It's far too easy for gang members to put a curse on their enemies to get them stabbed, it reduces the likelihood that they will be linked to the crime itself. You can find a witch doctor in most afro-carribean inner city areas, they exist in an informal network. The most recent black magic knifing was done to Adeyinka Adebarimo.

Muti men from South Africa can heal others but they'd maybe kill you for your body parts, especially if you're an albino. The Numbers gangs have conflict over the use of Muti as the 27s dislike the 28s for their sodomy and violent incantations. Nongoloza, a mythical gang member, was able to drink a horn of poisonous juju drink which should have killed him so now the 28s use their magic to overpower their rivals.

There's a myriad of magic throughout the African continent which has a murky relationship with crime. I am not chatting breeze. You've never been road you mug.

>>10316 >>10320

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>10321
It might be strange but it's all deadly serious. Magic plays a huge role in some cultures. 75,000 people starved in the Cape Colony because some cow bitch saw a prophecy and told them to kill all the cattle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse

Don't sneer at it, these things can lead to death on a large scale sometimes.

>>10322
Fatal stupidity is still stupidity.

>>10320
The Ruqyhah you are on about is the South Asian one, which isn't Ruqyah, it is just white magic. They even use good/bad Jinns to aide them. Normal, real Ruqyah (practised by Middle Easterners, East Africans, and North Africans) is not white magic and is used to destroyed both good and evil. It destroys even good Jinns. It uses religious texts to destroy everything. It is like an Atomic bomb.

As for the increase in crime, it is widely known that a greater tragedy will befall any practitioner of black magic, if that were not the case, then Africa would have been the richest continent in the world. All these warlock morons and magic will destroy themselves.

What's funny is that I think a new form of juju is being born. Juju is know for absorbing new magic and increasing its power. All these warlocks from different parts of the world, all with their different styles of magic being locked up in prison will probably create something new soon.

In Any event, it is unlikely that a silly Ghanaian can utilise magic on such a wide scale as to hoodwink everyone into liking his music. Maybe he just done it to Konan and Krept.

>>10324
>In Any event, it is unlikely that a silly Ghanaian can utilise magic on such a wide scale as to hoodwink everyone into liking his music. Maybe he just done it to Konan and Krept.

Lost my composure. Best post of 2016.