Grime's 100 Club Moment

2003: Number 44 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of R&B and hip-hop musicIt's somehow appropriate for its DIY ethics that the seminal moment in the history of modern British urban music is a four-part YouTube clip. Ripped from a home-made, long out-of-print DVD called Conflict, one cameraman films a tiny box-room full of young grime MCs, performing on pirate station Deja 92.3 FM, high up on a rooftop in Stratford – only yards from what is now the Olympic site.Filmed on a summe...

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