00:00I don't know what changed with our generation,
00:04why we wanted to tell stories about our lives.
00:07I just know that we made music that didn't sound like anything else.
00:11We always felt that it was us against the world.
00:13It's very aggressive.
00:14It's all about the struggle and about freedom.
00:16As long as it was at 140 BPM, it was great.
00:248 bar. 8 bar of one arrangement, 8 bar of another.
00:30So 8 bars has been synonymous with grime music since the early days.
00:36So we end up in grime.
00:37Just turn the bass up, add more distortion.
00:41Get the pain out, get the frustration out.
00:43It's just loads of noise, loads of mics.
00:45Bass drivers, bass, gritty.
00:46Authentic, raw.
00:49This was at Café de Paris.
00:51Amy Winehouse was on that bill.
00:53She was on before me.
00:56Because a lot of people would say it's the rap that influences what's happening,
00:59but it's not.
01:00It's what's happening that influences the rap.
01:03Get out of there, use your resources,
01:05and rub that I-can't-be attitude off your skin.
01:09There's always going to be hurdles,
01:11sometimes blatant attempts to silence us.
01:15UK guys from the block doing what we do.
01:18You won't have a bar, we break what you're saying.
01:20See, I'll shut you up with a dum-dum, you baby.
01:22Baby.
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