Grime is a musical monster with its tentacles wrapped around pop culture and politics – and only getting bigger.
Names like Skepta, Stormzy and J Hus are now regular faces on mainstream TV talk shows, winning Mercury and Brit Awards, headlining summer festivals and worldwide tours.
Grime even impacted this year’s election – the #grimevote meant political parties are finally focussing more on young people and including their needs in manifestos.
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The genre was created around 2002 in the working class tower blocks in East London.
And the Godfather Of Grime is Richard Cowie Jnr aka Wiley.
I met him at an East London studio after he’d flown in from his home in Cyprus to promote his new book, Eskiboy, which is out on November 2.
Dressed in a Man UTD footie shirt, he ran over to hug me… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/30/in-focus-wiley-talks-punk-inspiration-politicians-and-that-dizzee-rascal-dispute-7026932/
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