Yo, Yo… my yout’ the MC fires up Roll Deep’s genre defining Grime mixtape. The first crew to bring together all the scene’s seminal tracks from its Garage beginnings to the dark, gritty underbelly that it inhabits today. DJs Maximum and Karnage mix us through an earth-shattering (Westwood EXPLOSIONS included) box of tunes that go back as far as Maxwell D and So Solid’s ‘Envy’ to the original club version of Sticky / Ms Dynamite’s ‘Booo!’, Dizzee and Kano provide the floorfillers. The Roll Deep MCs step up for duties on ‘Creeper’ and ‘Steamrolla’ – finally putting a studio spin on these spits. A subtle bit of commentary on the concept of this mixtape comes in the form of Wiley’s ‘Wot Do U Call It?’ Whatever you call it – ‘Roll Deep presents Grimey’ represents the music of a cultural movement and a thousand gun fingers. Also check the DVD – FlowDan and Target talk you through the album track-by-track… which is nice!
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Beanie
