"I Write Bars On Showerman Rooftops"

Better late than never. Radio is really picking up after the summer months when everyone was in Ayia Napa having fun and I was sitting indoors, with no holiday fun, trying to avoid the rain, gales and all other sorts of meteorological fuckery. Perhaps unfairly I looked to the grime scene for some sort of relief, but nothing was forthcoming.

The outlook has now brightened up, and Vectra was on Rinse last night, with Jammer making a surprise appearance. However, maybe it was more of a surprise that Blacks wasn't there, given his regular appearances on the pirates in the second half of this year. Nevertheless a track of his was played, which I'll just call Grime Kid after the name of the Maniac production and Wiley vocal. Divshare seems to be down yet again so I've popped my zSHARE cherry. Listen to the track here.

The hook is a bit weak but, regardless of recorded output, it's the radio performances alone that have catapulted him up the list as one of the best MCs in 2008, representing the sound in one of its most natural and rawest mediums.

At the moment, grime needs more MCs like Blacks.