RIP Black The Ripper. Not seeing him out today in the sunshine lighting up something that looks like a baseball bat wrapped in greaseproof paper feels wrong. 💚
We should be rioting. Directors and board members should not be able to leave their homes in safety. The members of the government who have enabled this while elderly members of the public have frozen to death in their homes this winter should be hounded to distraction.
I was one of thousands he helped. We started
@keepinitgrimy
together and filmed Grime sets every week for 2 years. He continued to reach out to people with a helping hand because he loves music so much. None of us can describe exactly how much
@jamaledwards
did for all of us ❤️
I’m so so glad I got to spend a few more hours sitting with Stormin and his wonderful family and friends before his passing.
I saw him perform, still just a boy, at Stratford EQ’s before Grime was even a genre nearly 20 years ago.
Now he’s gone.
Rest easy sir. A true legend.
Amazing the replies to this from people who don’t give two flying fucks about football and couldn’t tell you who Ndidi, Musa and Iheanacho’s club team is....
Fucking idiots
As
@rustyrockets
said “When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
Please no UK 'Verzuz' when we already have No Signal / Culture Clash / Eskimo Dance / LOTM
Be nice to see everyone support some of our own creator's platforms more.
15 years ago this week, a 17yo Jamal Edwards came down to the Kiss studios and filmed this freestyle by
@skepta
for our new youtube channel KeepinItGrimy
Thank you Jamal. Miss you, man.
I’ve never seen England in the finals of a major tournament in my lifetime. Incredibly proud of these three lads stepping up to take penalties when it mattered. Proud of the whole squad during the tournament. It was a beautiful moment that we needed.
Fuck racism. Fuck racists.
I just saw a photo of
@MayaJama
interviewing Robert Deniro on the red carpet today.
I remember when she was interviewing people for Jump Off.
Man, it’s so sick seeing people succeed. Powers me up. I hope all of you crack on this year and win!
Just caught up on the timeline.
Big up
@alhan
.
Weaponised ‘outrage’ manufactured by people with an agenda to hurt a rival brand is NOT for the betterment of society. That’s a cunt move.
I know Poet is reflecting and improving. F365 should do the same. Pagan behaviour.
I don't believe Wiley should have been permanently banned from all platforms when he had shown willingness to be informed and educated, admitted to his dangerous generalisations and wasn't even using those other platforms to continue any sort of hate.
Skepta - Castles is an absolutely fucking sick production. I know it's a remake of Versace Python but that version of the beat is fucking cold.
I love this song deeply.
Why are people who were getting their shitty bums wiped by their mum when Skepta was carrying bags of dubplates round Tottenham and Stratford talking badly on him choosing to DJ? Silly people.
5G. I’m going to listen to independent scientists who’s job it is to set limits on corporations and governments.
Not David Icke or your mate from Facebook who found a dead pigeon.
It is absolutely fucking freezing outside.
If you see a rough sleeper on the streets please do something nice for them. Could be the difference between them waking up tomorrow or not.
And you don’t need to film it!
Bars like this about being skint and what adventures you got up to trying to live your life on a budget >>> telling me about your trip to the Shard with a peng ting in the Benz wearing Fendi
DMX released 2 Platinum selling albums in the same year. I cannot overstate how powerful his impact was at the turn of the millennium.
Never spoken of enough in GOAT discussions.
Dizzee didn’t care what anyone else thought 15 years ago and I don’t think he does still now. He just did his thing and kept it moving.
And yeh, his production back then went in directions no one else had gone and ignored all the ‘garage’ rules.
Happy 15th anniversary I Luv U.
Gonna be DJing at this for
@GrimeOriginals
&
@ukgrime
because I support a Labour government and want to encourage people to vote to enable that.
Catch the stream November 29th at
You voted Boris Johnson in over this guy.
What a bunch of cunts.
30 years of campaigning for a better life for the poor, oppressed and neglected. And we got that blonde buffoon.
Fucking fuming.
I’m sure many of them are. Let them kick ball in peace. FA and FIFA can’t even deal with racism in football properly, no wonder players don’t want to come out.
I’ve got 71 thousand followers. I don’t ask you to do much. Don’t ask you to buy things I release or whatever.
I will ask you to report this tweet, if you don’t mind.
In the last decade of Tory government the number of British citizens relying on food banks to live has risen from 65,000 in 2010 to ONE POINT NINE MILLION now.
It was 1.6 million even before corona hit.
65k to 1.9m
We are one of the richest countries on the planet.
Let me just RT this again cos it deserves the extra signal boost.
The ‘flashy and cocky’ footballer who got mocked for shopping at Poundland and flying EasyJet.
Dared to ‘treat himself to breakfast’ after not winning PFA award.
And all other manner of bullshit.
We used to rock up to an abandoned basement under a shop in Whitechapel to do pirate radio you know? These days I unlock my phone and see stuff like this. And I’m not even surprised anymore!
Man like
@skepta
the living legend. 🙌
Shout outs to Naomi cos I wear them pants too.👍
@AyoCaesar
I'm trying to find out where you said you hoped Dominic Cummings died but I couldn't manage it. Can you possibly help? No one in your replies here seems to be able to illustrate it either.
Birmingham was still making Grime when London was making submissions for day time playlist. So hold tight that entire community for reminding everyone about the correct energy.
English peoples’ mental image of Winston Churchill and the reasons behind the end of the Second World War is a shining example of the limits of our current curriculum.
Grime in Ibiza? Meh
Grime in commercial venues? Meh
Grime on mainstream radio? Meh
Grime on telly? Meh
Grime co-signed by reality TV 'stars'? Meh
Grime anywhere that genuinely respects and cares about it? Yes please.
Aside from Pow, has any other UK record in the history of music been explicitly banned in night clubs due to the unreasonable reaction from people inside when it is played?
When it came out you weren’t allowed to play it at carnival for 3 years.
@BoozeAndFagz
@AyoCaesar
If your counter argument to an article published in 2012 is taken from religious text compiled 1500 years ago...
You should also use the time this festive season to research how old Mary was.
We can't treat our hardworking NHS staff like this.
Boris Johnson's Tories have deliberately cut staff and now the NHS is in crisis.
Labour will recruit the doctors and nurses we need.
Ah yes, the classic ‘caring about Grime only when it’s two names you recognise in beef’ move.
Even worse is people asking for Wiley to be reinstated to twitter ONLY so they can be entertained by his commentary on events.
Timeline sucks.
When Grime raves come back, I want to see promoters booking the artists who actually make the raves fun to be at. The people who get real responses from a live audience. Put more respect on that as a skill. Pay those people.
BBC tweeting out this flat out misinformation from someone who has entirely miscalculated how tax works is disingenuous.
At 80k a year he is in the top 5% of earners in the country and his tax would go up by a grand total of LESS THAN £10 a month under Labour.
What a melt.
“I’d like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax more”
This audience member, who earns over £80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto.
#bbcqt
They just wheeled in
@Jaykae10
’s rider on a trolley. I think he just put his weekly shop down on the advance sheet.
I’m doing this all wrong.
I saw 3 boxes of cereal....