Cooking up bars that explore realness in the scene, COCO represents Sheffield to the fullest and West Ealing MC Scrufizzer peppers ‘Ingredients’ with his trademark skippy flow – turning up the heat on the track’s second verse. The video culminates with both MCs kicking off their own after-hours cooking session, mixing their chosen ingredients to create the perfect dish.īringing an updated twist on grime’s blueprint the banger, released earlier this month, unleashes a taste of the classic grime sound, with COCO and Scrufizzer trading rapid-fire flows over a distorted bassline and full-bodied drums, courtesy of Toddla T. The Oliver Brian-directed visuals for the track, ‘Ingredients’ blend the hook’s literal and metaphorical meanings, with COCO joining a host of chefs in the kitchen and whipping up a storm, before joining Scrufizzer on a bar-filled shopping run. ‘Concrete Vol.1’ is available as a free download right here. With a bombastic EP and music video now out for your inspection, 2017 will see this MC on-a-steady-rise go viral. Having support from SBTV, Link up TV, Rinse FM, and other big channels, LIL PROBZ has also garnered attention from the likes of Tim Westwood where he has previously been a guest on the 1Xtra show. ![]() Hailing from East London, LIL PROBZ shot onto the Grime scene like a ball out of a cannon. The EP also includes laid-back bangers, ‘No Chill’ (sampled from Mobb Deep’s hit ‘Quiet Storm), ‘Letter to My Son’ (sampled Eminem’s ‘Mockingbird) and the reggae-fused ‘Smoked Out’. Tracks ‘Thumbs Up’ and ‘All Stars Remix’ inject energy into the six-track collection with a woofer of a bass line. ‘The Warning’ is a the first release from the EP, ‘Concrete Vol.1’. In the two-and-a-half minute production, the grime MC spits effortlessly over a rhythmic bounce of the infectiously heavy bass line – warning every one of his mammoth return! LIL PROBZ returns bolder with a brand new music video for track, ‘The Warning’ taken from his E.P, ‘Concrete Vol.1’, released on Sunday (13 August) via Underground Kulture. Previous records such as ‘Watch Nuttin’ featuring Ayo Beatz climbed through radio playlists and this ‘Icey’ Remix is set to provide yet another benchmark for IRONIK…check it out… The support adds to his lengthy list of previous achievements that include a number 5 official chart position, a top 5 single, one top 10 single, a top 10 album and over a million record sales. With one of the most talked about returns of 2017, IRONIK dropped his ‘Truth Be Told’ album, receiving impressive recognition with over 200k+ album streams and making it on to BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Kiss FM and Capital networks, whilst PAPER Mag, The Hype Magazine, GRM Daily and Link Up TV have all supported his return online. A mix of trap and grime the North London native seamlessly bind together a whirlwind of cold flows for the aptly named track ‘Icey’. This has been a link up long overdue and without a doubt it’s worth the wait. Premiered via GRM Daily, the video has already accumulated over 30k views in just over 48 hours. Lots of wisdom shared.After teaming up on the original with Fekky, IRONIK continues to accelerate the levels with his brand new remix of ‘Icey’ featuring grime heavyweight and Boy Better Know CEO, JME. He talks about music, production, BBK (Boy Better Know), his approach to life and veganism. He’s notoriously private, so this interview is quite rare. Wish I’d managed to procure the record, but they’re limited edition and a bit harder (and more expensive) to get your hands on outside of the UK. His album, Integrity, was my initiation into the genre. One of the biggest names in grime music with a hilarious Twitter stream. This is the playlist I’ve had on repeat whilst I travel.įollowing on from the genre, I’ve discovered JME. And also very human these MCs tell their stories, and I’m fascinated, can’t stop listening. You’ll see what I mean. ![]() They have beef. It’s hard, deep, raw and dirty. Grime artists are not rappers, they’re MCs. Of course that’s a rather simplistic description of a genre that is very deliberate in the conventions and patterns it chooses to follow, or rules it chooses to break. It’s a subgenre of hip-hop with garage/electronic influences. I have made a few new musical discoveries in the last couple of months. Does anyone even read opening sentences these days? I was thinking about how hard it is to write a good short and engaging one, then thought… Fuck it, who reads this shit anyway.
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