Grime Over American Rap Beats
The Story of a London Sound, Stateside
Given that Kanye West brought out Skepta and Jammer onstage to perform with him at the 2015 BRIT Awards and Drake signed with the label Boy Better Know, it's safe to say that grime has bubbled up from the London underground and into the American mainstream in recent years. But grime's nothing new, and arguably peaked ten years ago in the UK. So why are people across the pond just now getting hip to Eskibeats and wastemen? Ahead of Dizzee Rascal's Boy in Da Corner performance in New York, Dan Hancox and Jason Adam Katzenstein chart the slow rise of grime in America, comic-style.
