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JME also doesnt have that many tracks with obvious catchy crowdpleasing choruses like nu skepta has. This is a weird conversation to have anyway because JME is still one of the biggest grime mcs around right now commercially and probably beats everyone who hasn't gone pop (most of the popstars...

I really don't think that he's going for 'global superstar' anymore. in recent interviews it sounds like his whole thing is making himself (to a lesser extent the whole uk) respectable in a global rap context so he can sell them bbk merch

he said that grime never died or experienced a 10 year long dark age or whatever which is a slightly different argument

I think it might just be due to a lack of decent serious releases from the original Jersey scene. Other than brick bandits stuff I can't really find anything that isn't a fun goofy pop song remix. On the other hand the juke thread was posted here in 2008 and I can only really remember the sound...

Seapunk was famously a twitter post before it was an actual genre, which is why nobody has any idea what it is after it's been around for three years.

I can't really tell but I think its a bunch of 4chan/tumblr kids taking the piss out of everyone elses' microgenres by making their own, like what hipster runoff used to do, with a few earnest concept albums thrown in. The stuff that's actually good inspires a bunch of imitators until everyone...

A lot of people who don't really listen to or like rap only know about the taylor swift thing and the south park episode, and the only time he really gets in the media is when he's rude to a paparazzi. In the mainstream he's just kind of an embodiment of negative rapper stereotypes.

The Proton wardub was pretty good, I really liked the Tre Mission tape and the stuff MIK and Merky Ace put out was pretty decent. This year's been less shitty for MC grime than last year

Its crazy how stale and cynical everything on his new album sounds, even compared to his earlier pop music. Maths n English has held up alright.

. Other than an amazing tempz freestyle over a nguzunguzu beat that sounds like babies crying I've seen bizzarely little contact between the grime scene proper and the night slugs/fade to mind stuff.

I went out in sydney the other night and heard the same EDM remix of smells like teen spirit about four times. I wanted to cry.

so has this whole thing truly become the early 2010s equivalent of nu metal now

He's also on a Darq e Freaker produced track on Danny Brown's new album in a couple months Yeah his insistence on shitty hooks are his biggest problem, the 1-2 minutes demos he occasionally does on his soundcloud sound better than his singles just because he doesn't try way too hard.

Does westwood have a kind of nardwuar-esque charming dorkiness about him? I cringe really hard whenever he speaks but lots of people love(d) being on his show.

I appreciate sox because he introduced me to Tre Mission via that LOTM3 freestyle video where Tre's really tall friend yells at the camera at the end