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!)
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...
...before we all crack on with our lockdown free 2022’s, so without further ado, sip on my perfectly brewed mulled wine of belated musical highlights of 2021, and let them warm your tune buds deep into 2022!
‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ (which is a backronym of her nickname Simbi) fills the hollow space carved out by the weight of the BBL’s, she is what the music industry has been crying out for from a female rapper with unassuming star quality, to bring wisdom, lyricism, and meaningful musings and ‘S.I.M.B.I’ delivers in abundance...
Throughout 2020 I was more excited to see a new ‘Space and Time’ clip from Justine and Timbaland’s studio sessions, than I ever have been over a Love Island recoupling! Witnessing their creative process felt organic and nostalgic, especially for those of us who remember how Timbaland (along with Missy Elliott) sculpted Aaliyah’s sound and career in the mid 1990’s propelling her to iconic status within...
GBK meets BBK in an unexpected but exceptional collabo between the razor sharp bars of the Female Allstars comprising of - veteran MC and clash aficionado Lady Shocker, menacing Miz, fierce Frankie stay woke and nang Ny-Ny, and the juggernaut MC that is JME, who is of course one of the founding and celebrated members of grime crew; BBK...
Manchester based rapper OneDa, comes through with feisty fight talk, and a dash of femininity, on her confident new single ‘Power.’ This track is just what we all need in lock down to keep the fire burning and motivation going, as One Da...
South London Grime veteran and ultimate tongue terrorist, Nolay unleashed rockets, grenades and missiles, on a surprise war dub for her equal in Grime, the Godfather – Wiley. Was it planned between herself and Wiley and another angle to keep the clashing energy in Grime live, was it something...
Manchester’s perilously talented producer, singer and rapper PERiiSU featured in my 2017 ‘Northern Exposure’ write up where I shone the spotlight towards the talented women within Manchester’s Grime, Rap and R&B scene. Soon after, I reviewed PERiiSU’s mesmerising debut E.P ‘Metamorphic’ where I applauded the talented producer’s use of experimental sci-fi-esque Sonic’s and commended her futuristic vision...
This is not a test! Missy really has given us a fresh body of work for the first time in 14 years, with each track seasoned with secret ingredients from her very own personal cook book. When blended together all the differing flavours she samples from different eras of her career, marinade effortlessly until we reach full flavour of – The icon that is Missy...
London rapper Queenie shook the table and smashed it to smithereens last year, when she dropped her memorable verse on the IMMENSE and politically important, Lioness led, 2018 Grime track; ‘DBT Remix.’ The first of 5 female guest MC’s, which delved into the issues of colourism and sexism within the black community, saw Queenie brazenly warn any wasteman who dares to try and bring her down with their unwarranted negative opinions, that she will wear her waist trainer for fitness or fashion and will stick to doing as she pleases. She ends her verse,,,
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