What First Got You Into Grime?

[Hij]

I'd always been a big listener of Garage anyway and while a lot of people say So Solid Crew and Musical Mobb, even Wiley etc I'd have to say Oxide and Neutrino, although I don't know, I was at a house party on Friday and someone whacked on 'Execute' their album and I'd forgotten about how good some of the beats had been.

I really think that some grime instrumentals nowadays really miss a good built up or built down intro and outro. Some tunes outro was much longer than you usually get now slowly fading out and all sorts and I actually remembered how much I had felt some of the tracks prior.

[U.M.P]

well basically i got into grime really thru listenin to garage cos thats where it all started init

[RISKY!]

it was Dizzeee Rascal for me.
a friend has his album, so i bought it & then searched net/limewire for more songs of his then come across all other MC's.
but before that i liked so solid 21 seconds but just that song,

[U.M.P]

off topic but why is my rep power 0?

[Hij]

well basically i got into grime really thru listenin to garage cos thats where it all started init

You must have started listening to Garage from early lol

[Quite a character]

i started to like garage around 2000/2001 times but i didnt kno anyfing about it like names or anyfing just liked the sound and jus naturally progressed.

[Quality Control]

off topic but why is my rep power 0?

cos you're whack as fuck


on topic: a friend put me onto Dizzee Rascal a few months before Boy In Da Corner dropped

[RISKY!]

off topic but why is my rep power 0?

http://www.grimeforum.com/forum/usercp.php

[Stephan El Shaarawy]

pay as u go

[Hij]

it was Dizzeee Rascal for me.
a friend has his album, so i bought it & then searched net/limewire for more songs of his then come across all other MC's.
but before that i liked so solid 21 seconds but just that song,
Yeah it was weird. I used to whack in CD's of Dr. Dre, Eminem, Tupac, Mobb Deep all sorts of Hip Hop guys I was feeling.

Garage gave me something different which I didn't feel R'N'B/Pop Music or whatever provided. I remember going through a phase listening to rock for a while as well during the stage Garage and 'Grime' as it was going to be called blurred the lines.

I sometimes forget that it didn't all happen over night and it was a combination of different tunes getting my interest that finally suckered me back in.

[U.M.P]

You must have started listening to Garage from early lol

well not really lol started listenin to it in bout 2003/2004 summat like dat

[Hij]

pay as u go

Yeah, another great choice, loads of them guys around then.

Really shows you how iconic Lethal B and Wiley are in the scene when you contrast More Fire/Pay as You Go and then Roll Deep/Fire Camp

[U.M.P]

http://www.grimeforum.com/forum/usercp.php

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[Quite a character]

Yeah it was weird. I used to whack in CD's of Dr. Dre, Eminem, Tupac, Mobb Deep all sorts of Hip Hop guys I was feeling.

Garage gave me something different which I didn't feel R'N'B/Pop Music or whatever provided. I remember going through a phase listening to rock for a while as well during the stage Garage and 'Grime' as it was going to be called blurred the lines.

I sometimes forget that it didn't all happen over night and it was a combination of different tunes getting my interest that finally suckered me back in.

'dark garage' lol

[S Dot Beatz.]

Pow

[Hij]

Like yeah, my view was purely being about 16 and listening to tunes I was feeling, that mates would give me on tape deck or CD. Unfortunately I werent old enough to be at raves then and see it progress from there or whatever as I imagine maybe some the older guys have a different memory.

[The Elijah]

I live in grime.

A turning point for me listening wise was when I saw an event on Channel 4 with all the mcs very late at night. My friend taped it. We watched it over and over like we used to watch wrestling.

I was always listening to music that wasn't on tv all the time, as I didnt have sky for the first 10 years of my life, so I could judge everything by indivdual merit, rather then what was pushed to me by MTV or Top of The Pops.

I rarely listened to commercial radio not to be different, but because they always played the same songs. So I used to stumble upon loads of different sounds and DJs that were pretty cool in the late 90s and early noughtys.

I became really interested in vinyl when my uncle moved house and he had stuff from Public Enemy and Run DMC all the way to Shy FX and Pendulum stuff. Since then I have been aware of vinyl, and being buying and mixing casually since late 04.

[Quality Control]

I live in grime.

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[Demos]

was listening to garage since the 90's (as a younger) drifted away from it about 2001, then one day my bredrin showed me a couple songs from "boy in the corner".....ever since then i was hooked

[SHOKK]

Dizzee Rascal, around the time Showtime was released, watching Stand Up Tall and Dream on TV.

[SCP]

After listening to So Solids album I was looking 4 a similar sound but i was feeling US hip-hop a lot more back then.
i heard eskimo in 2003 on 1 of these online grime shops (independance preview clips init) after hearing oi/wot do u call it on channel u iv been listening to grime more then anything else

[abass]

i used to listen to the odd tune here an there but i really got into it wen i heard wiley - morgue instrumental lol

[Hij]

Yeah, I still listen to 20-30% other stuff- garage, bassline (yeah I know), rock, trance, funky house.

But 70-80% of my playlists are made up completely of grime now so its interesting to see how everyone else came to find the music.

[The Elijah]

Yeah, I still listen to 20-30% other stuff- garage, bassline (yeah I know), rock, trance, funky house.

But 70-80% of my playlists are made up completely of grime now so its interesting to see how everyone else came to find the music.

maybe u should start another topic. what else are u listening 2 right now. because we always have people claiming they listen 2 a wide variety of music. But u know they listen to radio rips all day man

[S.Man]

I was into hip-hop and garage bout 98-99. I liked the lyrics and the darker beats of hip-hop but liked the tempo n club appeal of garage. Listened to a bit of drum n bass n went to raves so i enjoyed the hype of all that.

One of my mates, his brother had a sidewinder tape pack with So Solid, Pay As U Go and Heartless. I just got into it from there. Every now n then ill cop a hip-hop cd or go to a DnB rave but 85% of my ipod is all grime/garage related.

[Hij]

maybe u should start another topic. what else are u listening 2 right now. because we always have people claiming they listen 2 a wide variety of music. But u know they listen to radio rips all day man
Yeah that is true lol, Ill start one in a second.

[MangoMan]

Dizzee Rascal, around the time Showtime was released, watching Stand Up Tall and Dream on TV.

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[GrimmyGrimGrim]

it was Dizzeee Rascal for me.
a friend has his album, so i bought it & then searched net/limewire for more songs of his then come across all other MC's.
but before that i liked so solid 21 seconds but just that song,

*goes back in time and convinces riskys friend not to buy BIDC by telling him it's shit, watches damage to grime scene un do itself*

[Wiz]

Well...if you don't count "Oi" and So Solid stuff, then I'd say when my brother started making beats with Cold Blooded back in '03.

[Ghost45]

bought decks at 14 used to just mix garage & abit of drum n bass then along came pulse x, creeper, eskimo etc garage died and grime lived, 8 years later here we are.

[Hij]

*goes back in time and convinces riskys friend not to buy BIDC by telling him it's shit, watches damage to grime scene un do itself*
lmao

[Ghost45]

*goes back in time and convinces riskys friend not to buy BIDC by telling him it's shit, watches damage to grime scene un do itself*

rotflmao

[Breathe Beats]

pay as u go

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[The Elijah]

showtime is so overlooked.

that is full of wicked tunes. 100% grime aswell.

B sides to the singles are tight aswell.

Give you more/ Trapped are two of my favourite dizzee tunes.

[Danny Trejo]

Pirates man, I'd just moved down from Liverpool to do some work for my uncle and get away from a bit of heat back home and just driving around in my shitty Nova opened up all this music that sounded like nothing I'd ever heard up North. (There's still very little grime or garage or anything like that up here, it's hard being back).
So I just started taping loads of sets, trying to figure out where I could buy it, then got a set of decks and started on the vinyl really. It's weird though, because very few of my scouse mates like this stuff at all so you just feel a bit out of place sometimes.
Prior to that, I was on a lot of house, rap, some drum & bass, some old rock as well but not as much

Came back home to Liverpool about 12 months ago, it's hard to get used to a city without an urban scene to speak of really.
I'll be back soon though.

[Speedos SNR]

Done the whole spittin on garage / host thing, so grime was a natural progression for a spitter...

[G-Rhyme]

Roll deep - Creeper Mixtape Volume 1 got me into grime.

[DemWayDere]

When I was in year 10/11 So Solid, More Fire Crew, Pay As U Go, Heartless etc was what everyone was listening to...

from there it was just a natural progression onto Dizzee Rascal, then to Roll Deep and etc etc

[Miyagi Dan]

when i was at school i had a couple mates that moved down from bow, i was djing garage but the grimier stuff like, bingo and social circles dubs

they must of showed me a white label of take them out (first time id heard of nasty) and i thought it was sick, plus they used to spit old dizzee, d double, wiley bars wen we was muckin about on deck an that was it, didnt really have a choice other than to get into grime further

then BITC dropped evryone stopped listening to 2pac and got into grime

EDIT: the white label might have actually been birds in the sky

[grime2008]

i got into garage in mid 90's around times of rewind oxide neutrino dem days and then started attending raves mainly heartless and the old sidewinders harmany, sun city dem days! den its when pay as u go first were around i wernt into them much tho my mate was and jsu got me hooked rely, them eskimo dance 1st ones we used to watch dem over n over!

[Troublesome]

From when it started. I started off listening to Solid Solid/Oxide Neutrino but they were obviously garage along side people like PAUG. and that was when I was in year 7/8 I'm 3rd year of college now lol.

So Solid actually got me hooked on the sound and the rawness and got me interested in the whole MCing thing.

From since I heard the So Solid sound, I just started switched up & down the FM radio looking for some MCs (Ahh, the days)

['nuum general]

didn't listen to too much garage, listened to dreem team on a sunday morning & that was about it.Didn't really get that much of it up here. Did get so solids album which was massive & remember hearing oi on some pop compilation my sister bought. Really started noticing grime when 1xtra started & they were playing i luv u, dem lot ect. From then on i was hooked

[MedellinManDem]

I started listening to it in about 1996 and Oxide and Neutrino were barely heard of them times. Them times it was man like Charlie Brown, Norris da Boss Windross etc etc. Still have good memories f listening to that stuff. But when So Solid brought the tuggy side into it, I had to go that way and leave garage over the other side!

[Galvatron]

I started listening to garage year 7 year 8, and around then the garage sound started getting alot darker, so it was a natural progession. But I've been through kind of a cycle, As I got older and older I listened to more and more music, falling in love with drum and bass, hip hop etc, but drum and bass got very shit,and I'd listened to 36 chambers too many times. AND then i heard midnight request line and started listening to dubstep, dubstep, grime insturmentals,grime have a lovely cross over so i'm back heavily into grime, which means I've missed a few years out. Woopsie.

also check out www.youtube-saved-my-life.blogspot.com

[Ransom]

East connection

[MedellinManDem]

:rolleyes:

Another welcome blog.

[The Elijah]

:rolleyes:

Another welcome blog.

my i google is RAMMED. im keepin an eye on all of em

[Pristine Condition]

boy, i always felt garage belong in the garage, i h8ed it.

but craig david - re rewind got me hooked

but den crazy titch - i can c u, got me into grime!!! which was 03 times. but then obv-ly pow was like an anthem and every1 new that.

[samur41]

i didnt used to look for garage until ghetto kyote i dnt think

[adidasgrandad]

boy in the corner. i was bout 12/13 and it was only thing i listened to for bout a year lol

[Observer]

Got into garage when it first became popular in the mainstream (00/01). There was a show on national Norwegian radio called "Wicked" which usually played 50/50 UKG and soul/rnb, so I tuned into that and got to hear a lot of the stuff that was popular (Artful Dodger, Dreem Teem, MJ Cole, Zed Bias etc.) but I didn't really like all the bling/glitzy stuff that often came along with it.

Then I heard More Fire Crew - Oi, which had this raw energy to it that I had never really heard anywhere else before. After that I started searching for the darker, punchier stuff that people like Horsepower and El-B made. While I did get into other genres for a while after that, it was pretty much inevitable that I'd end up being into grime and dubstep down the line.

[bailey_187]

got into So solid and more fire crew in year 5 and 6 when they used to be on MTV then in year 7 when I luv u came out on CHU i liked that. then my cousin heard me lisnin to it when he was at mine and told me about other grime MCs at the time.

[critic of musical arts]

my brother was a garage dj so i used to love garage, then i remember when champagne dance dropped i got into pay as u go and propperly into pirate radio. lol i was fasinated with so solid aswell (no homo) cos i never heard no british mcs with them type of road bars. deja nasty crew days were the best and east co sets.

[ALM]

deja

[RIP Jakey]

I started liking it when I saw I Luv U, Forward Riddim, Wot U Call It & I Can C U videos on Channel U, after that I got all them songs on Limewire and a few others. The first CD I got was BITC I rinsed that so much I took a copied version to school every day in case a teacher let us listen to music. My art class got pissed off after a few weeks of it lol.

I did like a bit of So Solid and Oxide & Neutrino before that but I was generally a Hip Hop guy.

[kossa]

i first got into garage when i heard the ez halloween special in 97 or 98. then came the dreem team shows where i first heard pay as you go and have being hooked since

[SPOOKY DJ]

i got into garage frm double 99 - ripgroove
and all da pirates around at that time
plus when garage had 3 prime time slots on legal radio

then came pay as u go....and then pulse x and eskimo and oi! and creeper and hungry tiger and dj wire - believe me and golly gosh and since then ive bn into grime

[Aaron]

I remember the long car drives back from random places with my brother late night, they always used to play garage and stuff like that and my brother started listening to Rinse FM and got a vinyl of Oi. That was when i was about 8! haha and then 2 years ago I bought a phone from someone and it had loads of Roll Deep stuff on it (Some of their grimier stuff) Limewired that and went from there!

[compact]

Dizze Rascal
From Tym He Was Makin Creeper N Dem Tingz Der

[SPOOKY DJ]

Dizze Rascal
From Tym He Was Makin Creeper N Dem Tingz Der

danny weed made creeper
dizzee made hoe! n go...

[Anonymous]

Garage/So Solid/Pay As U Go/Heartless/Artful Dodger/Sidewinder CD packs loads of other stuff (Oxide & Neutrino and So Solid Crew albums I got for xmas when I was 10). It was just a natural progression on frim Garage. Teadin' On Thin Ice was massive amongst people I knew aswell.
I was always hanging around with people a bit older than me and used to end up at partys listening to all them. And then when everyone wanted to be a DJ. They were my main ways of hearing the music and then the odd pirate radio when the sound didnt really have a name and people were just MC'ing, then the Eski sound came and BITC and everything blew up from there.

[Alfie]

Well living Bow i suppose i was always gonna be surrounded by it.
But nah i suppose spitting in the playground back in the day.

[Jay05]

it was Dizzeee Rascal for me.
a friend has his album, so i bought it & then searched net/limewire for more songs of his then come across all other MC's.
but before that i liked so solid 21 seconds but just that song,

^^^ lol from the start

i used to listen to hip hop from 99 ( was 14) then i liked garage beats but the mc's seemed poor compared to Hip hop.

Mate bought BIDC (at least 50 % of grime must have got brought in this way) I loved it but couldnt find out much else. Channel u was air and Even on limewire there wasnt much so even thought i loved it ddint know what to listen to.

Gradually went on RWD blogs and logans show and really got in2 the scene.

None of my mates like grime so its such an effort to keep up 2 date, if i didnt bother then i wudnt hear anything untill the next dizzee album

[odubzstahh]

i got into grime by freestyling in the library back in year 7 with my ones with beats like dj oddz champions.
everyman was on BIDC though but everyone in my school dem times were just spraying the jezbel bars.

[phen]

was kinda into garage (the more obvious stuff like r.i.p. groove and gabrielle) but got bored and started listening more to weird techno nonsense. Then one of the people i used to houseshare with randomly downloaded wiley + riko - wickedest ting and it was one of the most unique amazing energetic things i'd ever heard. Got really into grime mid to late 2004 and have been into it ever since

[fuk off]

Started off listenin 2 heartless crew tapes blazin wid my school mates in year 10/11

[Grimes]

bare gay

[Mister Lacey]

Just happened man.
Been into DnB and Garage since 97ish especially Garage and just followed the evolution man.

[DaBlackAlbino]

For me-:

Kano - Nite Nite
Dizzee Rascal - Jus A Rascal

Searched these online, found bootlegging forums, downloaded the bootlegged music liked it and got on it.. where I live there is no grime scene so that was the only way I could get on it.

Now i regularly order CDs from Uptown.

[Jointz]

wats wit da toilet......
dem blu borough wuns got me into grime....an i was from south west lol

[Pablo Escobar]

Old skool garage, Triplets, Golly Gosh, War etc.. but i was proper on garage before them tunez come out, all the old bubblers got me into this sorta shit.

[Tickbites]

Remember buying So Solids album when i was year 6, tryna get everyone to listen to them but nobody was having it bar a couple people liking 21 seconds.
I didnt even know what Grime was back in that day, ended up having Tingz in Bootz and Wiley Lethal clash recorded on my foot long 3 phone. You know them ones. Still didnt know what Grime was though i just see it all as garage still listening to Pure Garage cd's and Artful Dodger CD.
I didnt actually know what grime was till bout late 04 05.
Listened to all the commercial kinda grime stuff and limewire downloaded tunes till I flicked through my radio one night and it was War Report night. Wow. lol.