Dine On Grime / Munch on music
All my features, reviews, opinion pieces, and artist profiles in one place (the punctuation isn't perfect but the passion is!)
The legendary Grime reunion gifted us a pick n mix of seminal riddims and classic bars which played like a monster medley plucked from both Wiley and Dizzee’s enormous back catalogues and clashes...
If Alligator bites are purely infused with Doechii’s charisma, wit, wordplay, and versatility, then please, bite us with those beats again, and may we never heal! ‘Alligator Bites Never Heal’, is technically not an album, but a mixtape, which remains faithful to the nostalgic mixtape format in that each track is less than 3 minutes long, and explores an array of moods, tones, and topics allowing Doechii to flex her versatility, display her quirky personality, or muse in moments of deep introspection...
Social politically charged ‘Double Standards’ is a stark dissection of structural imbalance and hypocritical judgements dependent on differing demographics and their perceived stereotypes. Ghetts notes how people are profiled from their names alone, we’re reminded of diaspora wars at a time where it was cool to be Caribbean and shameful to admit African heritage...
‘Daughter’, allows Beyoncé to flex those classically trained pipes as she delivers a moving interpolation of ‘Cario Mio Ben’ in fluent Italian, a song renowned by opera singers worldwide who recite it to train their vocal cords....
In the esteemed words of another iconic 1990’s R&B boy band, Blackstreet, “Let’s take it back, way back, back into time”.,,,
Fresh off her final stint on ‘Top Boy’ with the welcome reprisal of her much loved character ‘Mandy’ featured in series 2 and 3 on Netflix, or series 2, 4, and 5 if you’ve been riding with ‘Top Boy’ since channel 4 days, Nolay drops single...
The accent heard by some of Love Island’s 2023, series 10 cast, in particular Tyrique, Zachariah, and Andre Furtado, is not Jamaican Patios, but is in fact a new accent which developed in the late 20th century amongst young working-class Brits, coexisting and socialising in the multicultural boroughs of London, where coincidentally Zachariah, Tyrique, and Andre all hail. This relatively new accent is known as Multicultural London English (MLE), regional variations of the accent are termed Multicultural British English (MBE) ...
Lets take a closer look at Tyler's trajectory from budding artist to musician in full bloom, and while we're here lets celebrate the musical maverick's phenomenal and poignant single and video for 'Sorry Not Sorry', taken from his recently released deluxe album 'Call Me if You Get Lost: The Estate Sale'
As Eli embodies her cathartic realisation, her voice ascends to a strong, operatic soprano key, as she asks repeatedly “What role did you play”? The effect of Eli’s powerful hums juxtaposed with the dramatic instrumental as we approach the bridge of the song, is chilling and hauntingly beautiful as the pureness and clarity of Eli’s delivery is simply breath-taking...
With that one performance at Coachella festival, Megan Thee Stallion has reintroduced substance over style to a new audience and reignited the ‘Hardcore’ era Lil Kim embodied in the 90’s. From the reaction to queen-chella’s brazen bars, I was not the only one who missed the hey days of the fierce female rapper...
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