Skrillex, PEEKABOO, Flowdan, and G-Rex - Badders
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Not familiar with Flowdan, I don’t usually listen to much Grime
But his voice on top of this beat gets my blood pumping. Feels like I could run through a wall.
Flowdan is someone I’d consider a grime GOAT. And grime is a small enough genre that a lot of people have the same GOAT picks. Glad to see him working with Skrillex because Skirllex is a great fit for grime.
I’ll have to check him out, ty for the extra context! My only Grime knowledge consists of “Boy in da Corner”, some Stormzy from when he was getting a popular in the US and this video (which I love, I wish hiphop artists did this sort of thing on the regular). So anything extra is appreciated
And from what little I’ve heard, I can see Skrillex working well with most of the guys in the genre. My understanding is Grime started out in the UK electronic music scene, so he would be very much in their wheelhouse. I’ll have to see if he has done more with Grime people after I look in to Flowdan more.
The best grime album is Godfather by Wiley. That album doesn’t have any misses, it’s just crazy from front to back. Too bad he’s such an anti-semite that Godfather got taken off streaming. But Godfather is pretty much that era of grime perfected. Grime MC is also really good.
I am going to have to figure out how bad I want to check this album out. On one hand, I love a good album and finding new artists. On the other hand, I really hate supporting racists and anti-semites. I’ll have to find a way to acquire it without him getting sales from it I guess.
I am about half way through Grime MC right now (just finished track 10). Goes hard, I very much appreciate the suggestion. I almost wonder if Grime might be something I prefer over Hip Hop, just because it seems more focused on the actual rapping.
EDIT: Just finished Grime MC. Really loved it. I think Brothers and Sisters might be my favorite track off of it, for sure top 3. Not sure how it has the 2nd fewest listens on Spotify. Probably just because it is the last track and people switch to a different album or reach their destination or whatever before they get there.
Yeah I know what you mean :/ it was one of my most listened albums before he started being an anti-semite, but it just makes it so much harder. Wiley did a lot of the production on Boy In Da Corner, but Dizzie hates Wiley with a burning passion now. It’s tough with Wiley specifically because he could be argued to be an inventor of the genre. Pirating his stuff isn’t a bad idea. He’s too important in the history of grime to fully avoid between all his production credits and features, however it’s a very loaded recommendation because Wiley is a POS. Related: Diss track from Skepta using a somewhat legendary Wiley beat from a decade previous to the diss.
I’d say grime is more lyrical than American hip-hop in the fact that being your own person and being independent are much more valued in grime culture. JME’s vegan bars would be controversial in American rap, while in Grime it’s seen as charming and funny even by non vegans. Grime has lyrically boring tracks just like any other genre, but there’s more freedom to be a unique personality within the movement because it has some roots in punk. It’s okay for JME to be a straight edge nerd that loves to get more technical with his writing, he’s one of the biggest rappers in Grime. JME, Skepta, Wiley, Flowdan and Kano all have extremely unique personalities and music within the genre and it’s praised. It’s more about the music than the social dynamics, so it’s okay to be corny because you think a line is funny.
Skrillex has been on a run this year everything he’s been dropping is so good