Generation Grime
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Radio 4 explores why the music genre of Grime has blown up in the UK in the last few years by following Wales' Astroid Boys on their recent UK tour. Once just the sound of the London underground, Grime's popularity has spread all over the country and is now the biggest youth culture since Punk. Cardiff's Astroid Boys are set to become Grime's next big thing - they've just signed a record deal with Sony imprint Music For Nations and their track Dusted has been picked up by wrestling giants WWE as their new anthem. The band and their fans tell us in their own words how this very British music scene has influenced their lives and given them a much needed voice.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:05.0 | Today and seriously, we're going deep. |
| 0:10.0 | Deep inside a style of music that's completely tied to its location, the history of the place and the lives of the people who live there. |
| 0:20.0 | Lately, I've been seeing a lot of homeless people and it's insane. You don't know each person's story. |
| 0:26.0 | Grime, but not just crime. |
| 0:30.0 | Welsh crime. |
| 0:32.0 | We're in pants too. |
| 0:34.0 | State me over us and see the light like where's the lamp to. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Welsh don't speak it. |
| 0:37.0 | I couldn't plan to. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm living in the city, the city I put my hands to. |
| 0:41.0 | For me, Docks is like the base, the heart of Cardiff because of the history, I guess. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Riana Dylan and James Hale brings us today's story. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, for the uninitiated... |
| 0:58.0 | In the last 18 months, grime music has become more popular than ever. Once just the sound of the London Underground, it's |
| 1:07.4 | now the biggest youth culture since punk. Cardifact asteroid boys are from the generation that grew up on this music and are now making their own. |
| 1:17.0 | The band and their fans told me why it's been such a significant influence on their lives. |
| 1:30.0 | We just dash this in a bit, explain the sound of crime |
| 1:40.0 | 140 B. P. P. M. O. O. Who's that bully for me? you just have that had a good I don't know like you just have that hard kick the hard sneer. |
| 1:57.0 | A lot of slang just speaking the way you speak on tunes. |
| 2:05.0 | Blocco, blocco. |
| 2:10.0 | Attacking vocals. attacking vocals. |
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