Grime Research Paper

Grimes Historical Reservoir:

Grime, like every sub-culture before it, is an amalgamation of preceding cultures, sub-cultures and musical genres.

The Musical Background:

When viewing Grimes historical reservoir from a musical perspective it is important to portray it chronologically, starting from when the figureheads of the sub-culture were first born. It may seem unnecessary to start this far back but this is the point in which the social individual starts to form their place within the world, forging connections others will not be able to obtain.
In Grimes particular instance it was the connection between Wiley, Jammer and Footsies dads which created part of the foundations of which Grime was built upon, Wiley and Footsies dads preforming within the same Reggae band and therefore their
Garage was about excessive spending and generally showing off your current wealth, with designer brands like Moschino and Valentino being flaunted on a regular basis at all of the club nights, so at the start the select few people within Grime kept this expressive-style for a short period before the realisation set in that it was not at all fitting with the scene it portrayed.
The Grime scene needed to individualise itself, by forging its own maps of meaning and an important section within those maps would be a sub-cultures outfit. “Early grime was never about urban excess, but about being honest about the daily struggle. As such, its sense of style was born from a feeling of disenfranchisement from the cultures that came before.”(high snob reference) It wanted to detach itself from Garage as a polar opposite, it adorned different ideals than Garage, Grime was an ethnographical form of music and their ethnography was the struggle of daily life in deprived inner-city