Mikee Merge n C
12th August 2005, 02:46 PM
So we've had yet more incidents of violence between young up n' coming MCs and their counterparts in the OX4 region...
Little thugs get so caught up in their lyric spitting clashes that they take it outside and draw blades on each other. They obviously can't take the lyrics!
I keep asking them why they do this when there is plenty other subjects to rap about...
This is the Grime Garage generation... I feel old... Some of the MCs with the most complex lyrics, and best vocabulary are very into their scene, I don't doubt this...
But they were in nappies when jungle techno was first appearing at raves, and UK MCs were first making names for themselves...
Garage is older than drum n' bass remember... :rolleyes:
:ban:
How has it got to be like this?
On Wednesday night a 14-year-old from here was taken to hospital with a stab wound to the leg following a 'rehearsal' session...
Myself and Desta are encouraging the local youth workers to find further funding for some positive role models to come and work with them on cleaning up their act a bit, or at least finding a more constructive way of discharging their anger at the world.
This ain't abouyt manufacturing artists. This ain't Pop Idol, nor is it New Kids On The Block. :D But, some education is definately in order...
It seems many of these youngers are idolising in stateside and carribean acts who have come from ghetto thug backgrounds, and for some reason they must follow these lifestyles in order to gain that status / success in their own territory...
They haven't experienced it first hand. This is Oxford, not Compton.
I remember being fifteen, as you probably do to. I was a little shit, but I never grew up on an estate so maybe I know nothing...
Thoughts?
:penguin:
Little thugs get so caught up in their lyric spitting clashes that they take it outside and draw blades on each other. They obviously can't take the lyrics!
I keep asking them why they do this when there is plenty other subjects to rap about...
This is the Grime Garage generation... I feel old... Some of the MCs with the most complex lyrics, and best vocabulary are very into their scene, I don't doubt this...
But they were in nappies when jungle techno was first appearing at raves, and UK MCs were first making names for themselves...
Garage is older than drum n' bass remember... :rolleyes:
:ban:
How has it got to be like this?
On Wednesday night a 14-year-old from here was taken to hospital with a stab wound to the leg following a 'rehearsal' session...
Myself and Desta are encouraging the local youth workers to find further funding for some positive role models to come and work with them on cleaning up their act a bit, or at least finding a more constructive way of discharging their anger at the world.
This ain't abouyt manufacturing artists. This ain't Pop Idol, nor is it New Kids On The Block. :D But, some education is definately in order...
It seems many of these youngers are idolising in stateside and carribean acts who have come from ghetto thug backgrounds, and for some reason they must follow these lifestyles in order to gain that status / success in their own territory...
They haven't experienced it first hand. This is Oxford, not Compton.
I remember being fifteen, as you probably do to. I was a little shit, but I never grew up on an estate so maybe I know nothing...
Thoughts?
:penguin: