Minder your own bizniz

Madness / Bad Manners vibes! 

Thematic reminded me of this

Bruza - met him once.  Nice geeza. Him and Terror Danjah, in some kind of leisure centre or enterprise centre in Stratford, where the Aftershock office was. 

Still one of my fave grime MCs

This is a fascinating tune, the way he addresses the subject of performance and what makes for believe-ability, where does authority come from, how do you conjure it... 

Back then he  projected a case-hardened, older-wise persona, while still in his early 20s. Now he has the actual age and body to go with the gruff voice and old-head aura. 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I haven't yet succumbed to grime nostalgia really (whereas bleep / ardkore / jungle, there aren't waves of nostalgia there - it's more like a perma-state, perennial), but perhaps it's about Tto come on, finally, 20 years on, punctually

talking about 2002-2005 of course

after that date, it becomes inexplicably uninteresting to me, same MCs, same producers, but I dunno...  

as for the 2010s wave, cannot for the life of me find the slightest twitch of desire to listen to Stormzy or Skepta

whereas Giggs say, or some of the drill, it can be addicting, certain tracks...

I suppose it's the dropping away of the whole cultural apparatus - pirates, dubplates, rewinds, etc - that make road rap or drill overall less compelling 

when there are no solid-form-objects of the tunes, how does that work, in terms of libidinal economy? can you get attached to a videoclip?