2000's ...

Genre of electronic dance

Emerged in Bow, London

Influenced by UK Garage, Jungle, Dancehall and Hip Hop

Spread amongst underground scenes

Dizzee Rascal helped Grime achieve mainstream regonition

More instrumental and less vocal

Musicians were very young - some getting their first single at the age of 16

Form 696 made it difficult for Grime artisrs to find a platform to play their music. Form 696 risk assessment - 21 days in adcance of a performance. Asked for artists, target audiences, style of music, ethnic minorities. This meant that many grime nights got shut down

Decline in the late 2000's - Grime artists tried to become more commercial

2014 'German Whip' got to no 13 in the single chart and this helped develop Grime again

2015 Kanye West asked Grime artists to join him on stage at the BRIT awards

2017 Stormzys album Gang Signs and Prayer was the first Grime album to reach no 1 in the UK charts

2019 - Stormzy became the first Grime artist to headline Glastonbury

Further influenced Afroswing and UK Drill

Lyrics can be very political. Grime4Corbyn - wanted all their fans to vote Labour. Stormzy called out Theresa May in his 2017 BRITs performance because of Grenfell victims

Lethal Bizzle

Dizzee Rascal

Wiley

Stromzy

AJ Tracey

Skepta