Grime Genre

Grime

Grime is a genre of music that derived from Bow, East London, England in the early 2000’s; it is essentially a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip-hop. Founders of the genre were artists, which include Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Kano, Jammer, the Newham Generals, Crazy Titch, Tim Westwood and Ghetts.

Grime is illustrated by complex 2-step, 4X4, breakbeats, generally around 140 BPM and constructed from different Synth and String sounds. Stylistically, grime draws on many genres including UK Garage, dancehall, and hip-hop. The lyrics and music combine futuristic electronic elements and dark, guttural bass lines.

As Grime is a fairly recent genre which was underground until Dizzee Rascal made it known, the genre seems to adopt characteristics of a few different genres as I suppose it hasn’t yet found its own being a new genre.

Some of the characteristics of a grime music video would be to expect to see is Jewelry, Urban Clothing such as hoodies, caps etc. Grime videos usually tend to have forms of aggression shown often between the characters or sometimes towards the audience due to the aggression in most lyrics and/or music within Grime music. These types of music videos reflect from Hip-Hop music videos. Yet some Grime videos have less of the typical urban and grimy look and sometimes can be from a different angle and have a more of a love theme to the music and video but still can come under Grime. These types of videos display elements of an R&B music video.