Google doesn't always give you what you want. Searching for some recent urban music from this part of the world threw up some strange results. I searched under "New Cross" grime and google came up with 'Did you mean: "new cross" crime ' (no, cheeky bastards). Deptford threw up Lewisham Deptford Conservatives (not linking to them on principle): 'We need to tackle crime, grime and litter', as well as a reference to the 17th century indictment of Sir Thomas Grime of Lewisham (good MC name, someone should use it).
Still did come across this, Destination Deptford (via YY Dexter):
Seen the first video before. "Brrrap", indeed.
ReplyDeleteSplit up now sadly, but Ashok were a great band from these parts:
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I think Bashy (part of the same eski scene as Wiley) is from NW London, but the video of his "Black Boys" is made in NX. It's a nice song, but a little un-grimey as grime goes. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie64T1D51-8
ReplyDeleteElite Team are quite inventive lyrically, but not great musically. They're from NX, and namecheck Deptford in their flow. See http://www.eliteteament.com/
Bossman is cool - quite mad rapping, overly bombastic production. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=71219237
DaVinChe is talented, but much too garage-y, and is from somewhere near our manor.
Soul Soldiers (not sure of the spelling - maybe with some Zs) are from the Pepys, and are more UK hip hop than grime: very rough and raw sound, violent lyrics. I've got some on CD somewhere - I'll try to post some if I can work out how