One of the things I love about grime is the clashing and beef between the performers. Because most of the scene revolves around regular radio shows, its pretty easy to keep up with the evolution of these issues and it all turns into something of an old school WWF type rivalry, which is why we all watched WWF when we were kids.
The latest drama surrounds who invented the phrase “It’s Alot;” which, to those of you not in the know, means “its good” or some shit along those lines. It’s achieved it’s biggest fame thanks to Jammer and his single and supporting T-shirt.
But months before that, Griminal recorded a tune with the same name which he then released on his free mixtape Not Just Bars Vol 1.
Why is this important? Aside from the obvious pride thing, “I invented this, you can’t have it,” catchphrases = sales in grime. Boy Better Know? Started as a catchphrase by Big H, now it’s sold thousands of T shirts, cds, and BBK is the biggest name outside of the grime scene.
Tempa T got in on the action with a tune called Par, you can hear it over at hyperfrank. Tempz is a member of the Slew Dem crew with Jammer, and he’s making his stance on this one clear.
But it all gets interesting on Westwood when we get Griminal, Tempz, Jammer and Ghetto (among others) on live, and Ghetto sticks his oar in on the matter (around 8 mins in) “What? It’s alot it’s alot, I swear you man borrowed that from Josh” (Josh = Griminal)
The most entertaining stuff in grime so far has to be the War Report 2 years ago where every week Logan had new war dubs to play. Let’s hope theres more this summer
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