won’t get none of your CDs back June 22nd, 2010
With a new post long overdue, the weather over here hotting up, and Uk music positively scorching right now, the stage is set. The subject of today’s return to the stage has been inspiring madness and disturbing the peace from Bow to Belgravia for a minute already, but it’s never to late to recognise talent. Tempa T’s Next Hype is undoubtedly one of the biggest Uk tracks to stay below the mainstream radar over the last 6 months, and is by the same right acknowledged by the industry as being game changing. I can say I’ve heard it in some guise or other at least 40 times this month already and it still sounds every bit as good as it did the first time.
*I wasn’t going to post the original video – in favour of the two alternatives – but then I watched it again, and couldn’t help laughing at Westwood being mugged off. Again. So switched my decision. Plus Tempz is sporting the Pars “R” Us tshirt and a flat top? Need I say more.*
The other two videos [below] seem to capture the breadth of Next Hype’s influence, through musical diversity. The second combines comedy and raw talent [including Tempz and JME], and serves to educate the less open minded amongst us as to the character and validity of the grime scene. Arguably more importantly though, could it help dispel the the misconceived perception that all grime artists are bipolar maniacs with a lust for vice and disorder? The first, by contrast, is no less inspired [and undisputedly original], and errs towards a more melodic and soulful interpretation of Tempz’s original hype. Whichever side of the fence you sit on, both in terms of grime as a genre, or the musical melting pot that is Ned and the Slow Jams, you’d be hard pushed to deny the ever-growing infuence and appreciation of a genre that is younger than most of us…
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