One of my favourite videos on YouTube is the BBC 1Xtra live radio set in promotion of Skepta and JME’s “That’s Not Me” Remix from 2014. This feels like a century ago, long before Skepta won the Mercury Prize, became a household name and started dating Adele. It’s an uncommonly star-studded lineup of UK grime legends and I’ve watched it countless times. There are so many great things about this video: the joy, kinship and respect they all have for each other, all the grime standards they rap over, everyone dressed in athletic gear like they’re about to do high intensity interval training, the fact that a radio station would allow a bunch of rappers to perform live over the air (why don’t we have this in Canada?), the short white guy Slimzee ruining the vibe by lustily swearing over the radio after everyone else has been carefully censoring themselves, everything about D Double E.
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One of my favourite videos on YouTube is the BBC 1Xtra live radio set in promotion of Skepta and JME’s “That’s Not Me” Remix from 2014. This feels like a century ago, long before Skepta won the Mercury Prize, became a household name and started dating Adele. It’s an uncommonly star-studded lineup of UK grime legends and I’ve watched it countless times. There are so many great things about this video: the joy, kinship and respect they all have for each other, all the grime standards they rap over, everyone dressed in athletic gear like they’re about to do high intensity interval training, the fact that a radio station would allow a bunch of rappers to perform live over the air (why don’t we have this in Canada?), the short white guy Slimzee ruining the vibe by lustily swearing over the radio after everyone else has been carefully censoring themselves, everything about D Double E.