What is UK drill? A primer on the rising British rap sound Despite punitive police measures and negative …. Another canny collaboration, this time with the leaders of the UK drill scene, Lets Lurk reminded everyone that Giggs was the architect of the emboldened UK rap scene, but also one of its biggest players.
In fact his biggest career move to date was still to come…. The Peckham rapper was global now, and would seal that status in summer with a headline performance alongside Drake at Wireless Festival. And while the Canadian star has endorsed plenty of other UK rappers since, mostly on social media, only J Hus and Skepta have been given a comparable platform.
The Essence. When I was growing up? She used to work with disabled people in, it's like a day center. It's like a day center. So they come there and they do activities for the day. Just so they don't sit in a residential home all day and do nothing, you know what I mean? My mom's always worked a lot. Was your mom around? My mom is kind of strict still. Yeah, but when I got about to a certain age I was running around. And when was that and how did you get involved with that stuff?
Probably about What's a Peckham Boy? It's like, it's just a gang. You have the "older" Peckham Boys and the "younger" Peckham Boys. We were the younger "younger" Peckham Boys. I was probably the only Peckham Boy with a curfew. I was in at , ish. You were? And so who were those guys that you first started hanging out with, and how did you get involved with them?
Well, my brethren Vess, he used to go to school with a lot of them. So he knew a lot of them anyway. It's like we used to. I'm from some estate in Peckham called Gloucester Grove. Now that was even like its own, that had its own flipping gang. It wasn't really a gang, but it was loads of niggas.
There's a bit in Peckham called Frontline. And the dealers used to hang out there? Yeah, like the Yardies and they used to show up. What are the Yardies? Like yard men, isn't it? But it's not really like that anymore. Them days there used to be bare yard men shottin' out there. I remember we used to be some little broke kids. We used to get on the bus and go up to Central.
There's some place in Central called Trocadero. And we just used to go there. Loads of girls used to go there, so we just used to go hang around and just get girls' numbers and that kind of shit. Window shop, cause it was Central, where all the big stores are.
I remember my brethren Inch. One time I see Inch on the bus and he had mad shit. Like Versace and fucking Moschino and that. Pulling out jeans. Like, oh what did you get? Jeans and Versace. He had P's. P's is paper. And I used to think, fuckin' hell, they's the same age as men, like the other ones are. I was thinking, bro, they're going hard bro. I need to be fucking with these men, bro. So you saw guys who looked good, who were wearing Versace.
They were doing their thing and I was thinking, I want to do my thing, like the other ones. And then that's really how I up and I thought, yeah man, I can get my own shit. I don't have to bother my mom. Them times I used to think I was helping my mom. And then I was, yeah I can fucking get my own shit and my own money and all that. That will help out my mom. But I kept getting arrested all the time cause I wasn't good at it.
What were you getting arrested for at that age? Just like robberies and shoplifting and shit. I remember my mom used to be like, why are you doing this? I used to think, mom, I'm doing this for you! But I was just stressing her out. When did you end up actually getting into music? I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae hard. Well first it was rap, then reggae, then rap again, then rap and reggae.
But I was always DJing out my window for the whole estate. Everyone used to sit outside and all and listen. And I used to be running rhythms in that.
You'd see bare men outside my house just listening. So you were DJing before you were even rapping? I was DJing before. Which reggae artists did you play? Which reggae? Them days it was like Bounty and Bugle, Beenie Man, them kind of days. You get me? That old school shit. And then when did you start rapping and how did you get into that? That was way later. Way later. Like Them days I talking about was like 90s.
It's like I started spitting on garage and shit. Then I went to jail in Why'd you go to jail in ? Just some strap charge. And then, yeah then I started rapping. Cause I used to hear BUK rapping. Used to send in CDs of him rapping. And then I though, alright the rap shit's the hard thing. So then I started rapping. And then I come out Middle of And then I started taking rap seriously.
I was still into trap and that. Were you rapping when you were behind bars? I was rapping. But I was shit. Did you ever have battles or anything behind bars? Or how'd you get into rap? Nah man. Them days no one was really rapping, like UK. Men used to say, you're wasting your time bruv. Know what I mean? There wasn't like a scene of rap like that.
Well gangster rap anyway. There was like old school men. London Posse, Rodney P, them kind of men. They used to do their thing and that. But it wasn't like gangster shit. There wasn't really a UK hip-hop scene? Well, that was hip-hop, isn't it? That was their hip-hop, but then… obviously there wasn't really, no one would be taking what was mine dead serious. Spitting about fucking straps and shoot outs and all that. But that was what we knew isn't it?
Even one of our brethrens said, "Ah bruv you're wasting your time, ain't no one going to listen to that shit. So why'd you keep pursuing it in spite of that? Cause I knew that this day would come where we are now. What was it like for you when you got out? When I got out I was on a thing like, yeah man, I'm done with the streets. I ain't into certain things anymore. Life feat.
Shereen Shabana What More Do They Want Matic feat. Signs J-Melo Have It Out Nathan Let Em Ave It. I've listened to enough old-skool grime to not be too phased by the gang stuff, but at the same time I'm not sure the GBP is really ready for London-based gangster rap. Think I'm just bitter because if anyone should be hyped as the British answer to Jeezy or whatever it should be Trim. This sort of reasoning just reminds me of everyone overcompensating for Tinchy and Chipmunk last year by jumping all over Tempah T, who can't really MC either.
Goodz is way too hyperactive for this sort of thing, he seems to be going down the dubstep path which in terms of commercial success without appearing to sell out might be quite an astute move.
It sucks so much that no Klash became canon so much. Or Maestro or Kyza. Actually that's a bit harsh on Roots but if Klashnekov isn't exactly wildly charismatic. But charisma is a red herring given that Kano had an absolute boatload of it and it didn't do him any good. I don't really see what makes Giggs stand out btw.
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