James Kofi wrote:this thread is a perfect example of the embarrassingly ignorant, patronising attitude this forum has towards black culture in the UK. none of you are any good at parodying the accent or vocabulary so unless you've got a job writing another instalment in the 'Kidulthood' continuum, I'd give up.
James Kofi wrote:and noone in this thread seemingly had any intention of attending the night, so how much of their hysterical claims towards grime being a violent music genre are rooted in experience, and how much is rooted in the lies they've been told by the media and police. the two groups most ppl on here claim to distrust the most.
It's probably something to do with the lyrics in grime tunes.
"In school I used to hit boys with a ruler" and other such violent tales such as "oooooooooooooh crack your skull, leave you fucked up in a wheelchair"
do you apply the same literal standards to all the music you listen to?
Point being is grime music quite often has violent lyrics accompanying it. That's why people have claims towards grime being a violent music genre.
I was being facetious (hit boys with ruler. c'mon now) but if you want to try and tell me that the grime scene doesn't reflect a violent lifestyle (and therefore help perpetuate it) go right ahead.
reflecting it doesn't necessarily perpetuate it. presenting violence isn't promoting it.
James Kofi wrote:and noone in this thread seemingly had any intention of attending the night, so how much of their hysterical claims towards grime being a violent music genre are rooted in experience, and how much is rooted in the lies they've been told by the media and police. the two groups most ppl on here claim to distrust the most.
It's probably something to do with the lyrics in grime tunes.
"In school I used to hit boys with a ruler" and other such violent tales such as "oooooooooooooh crack your skull, leave you fucked up in a wheelchair"
do you apply the same literal standards to all the music you listen to?
Point being is grime music quite often has violent lyrics accompanying it. That's why people have claims towards grime being a violent music genre.
I was being facetious (hit boys with ruler. c'mon now) but if you want to try and tell me that the grime scene doesn't reflect a violent lifestyle (and therefore help perpetuate it) go right ahead.
reflecting it doesn't necessarily perpetuate it. presenting violence isn't promoting it.
where did you come up with the name 'pikeymobile', I'd love to know the thinking behind it?
edit: I might be being overambitious in applying 'thinking' to the kind of smug racism that passes for humour round here.
someone robbed my sisters boyfriends vauxhall nova about 10 years ago, burnt it out and wrote "pikeymobile" on the side
but you know, pikeymobile is probably just a racist term towards gypsies even though it doesn't make any fucking sense out of context
you keeeeeeeent
wanna fight?