From the backstreets of Bow to Brit Award winner and broad mainstream acceptance, grime has found remarkable success in late years. Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah have constituted themselves as bona fide pop stars, while the music`s rougher edges were sanded down, lyrically and sonically, and remoulded into playlist-friendly singles that retained enough spike to crop the listener`s ear with a hint of the 21st century British inner-city experience.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Book Review: Don't Call Me Urban! The Time Of Grime
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