GRIME: The Documentary | History, Culture & Legacy of the UK's Favourite Underground Music Scene

It was the papers that named it grime, it was never called that by us at first. If you remember it was the new papers.

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From the U.S. I love grime! 🔥

BIG BOY TING!

Grime brings you together drill makes you kill people

Keep grime alive

I discovered grime when I got drunk with Jammer 🤷‍♂️

Channel u day's since 02/03💪

Either I’m hearing it wrong or…… u kno…. Il most definitely find it tho😊

Sad i didnt get to live through the beginning of grime.

goat doc

I remember kiss being a pirate radio station and recording on to cassette

That devlin f64 is the best freestyle. Been here when so solid and uk garage days to chip Diddy chip dropping 😂 devlin chip akala are my favourites

Its cold to Rast down here ,thats how i always wanna here the Weatherman

Grime been replaced by Drill and Roadman culture.

This is a well put together documentary. Salute to you

Eminem should have done grime🎉

But why do they rap that fast

This documentary completely forgot about Channel U

Thank you for this great work. You did a phenomenal job

For every underground culture created by poorer kids, there are intelligence community plants to spread hate, violence, and division.

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I watched the genre develop.
Born 1980, grew up in South London. Listened to Don FM, Flex FM, Kool FM, then Delight FM..

IMO, D&B had more of an influence on what would become Grime. MCs like Skibba, Shabba, Det, Hyper D.. built the UK MC sound as far as I'm concerned.
R.I.P Hyper and Skibadee.

Thing is, D&B never reached the heights that Garage did and was notoriously difficult for MCs to break through to the top tier.
In the mid to late 90s, almost all pirates and clubs were banging out Garage.

Most of the youts that grew up with D&B were moving over and carried that aggressive style with them.

People like Wookie and Sticky forced a sub genre out of garage which had the DNA of Grime.
But someone else who don't seem to get a lot of credit is Deekline.
Some of his breakbeat dubplates on Flex FM, Sunday 4 - 6 pushed the boundaries and his MC (Hyperactive) was coming with different flows to match the sound.
IMO, Hyperactive is one of the most versatile and underrated MCs this country has produced.

That said, So Solid on Delight FM in them early days was the inception of Grime as we know it IMO. Particularly if we're talking about Grime as a culture.

Just my two pennies.

I’m old as fu*+ I remember when it started as jungle moving to garage to grime to drill

worldwide!!!!

in 2022 Grime is still,and forever will be ,its more then music

Wiley really did have the world at his feet

Can anyone tell me what the track is at 21.10. Starts with “I’m sick….” And finishes with “when you get the metaphor shout out”

Please explain to me why Stormzy's face is on the picture and not the Legend D Double E?

Ghetts = GOAT

The tune POW by lethal B was banned in every club in my area... literally made people punch the fuck out of eachother on the dance floor lol

I’m glad I found this I think it’s crazy asf that the states just ran with the culture like we created it. One day grime will get it’s just due world wide it’ll probably take a large tour to do it but it can be done

Durrty Goodz the best to ever do it

30 min documentary about grime and not a single word spoken about ruff squad 🤦🏻‍♂️

since this has been made Stormzy headlined Gladsotnbury, Grime has escaped the underground

manga rich kid?

Jumpoff

Where's Sway

I'm 46 I found grime thru channel u loved it ever since

I'm an American that discovered grime in 2018. I wished I knew about it earlier I would've been a grime head for way longer lol. Rap never captured me like grime does

I read about guys like Dizzy and The Streets and Estelle in rolling stone years before I heard their music. They were all lumped together. I must admit I didn't get it at first.

This documentary is 100% Netfilx worthy.

This is a great documentary. One thing that sticks out though - you go from a clip of an MC saying "fuck the police" on stage, to saying that police bills that aimed to prevent violence in clubs were discriminatory [excluding the ethnicity questioning which obviously isn't warranted]. Grime was a violent genre. Drill is even worse. Shootings have gone down in London since Grime, but stabbings haven't - and the offenders are getting younger. You said Grime is a culture, and I agree - I grew up with it. But what that culture has turned into needs to start embracing some order and authority again because it isn't getting better, just more inwardly violent.

This culture should be rallying up as a defence against what's coming now - real world war. Forget post code beef.

Amazing doc , well done

They really put the hardest English Frank bars in there

Just one word: Slimzee

soon it will be almost impossible to comment on grime without mentioning Brasil. A gente tá dominando tudo!!!