Genre Research

Our music genre is grime, grime originated from east London, artist such as Dizzie Rascal and Wiley first introduced the attention of grime to the mainstream media in 2003. A crucial factor to grimes success is youth creating music for youth, as by one generation making music for themselves increases its popularity. The artist we are using, Wretch32, is associated with today’s grime music with a darker and grimmer edge to his songs; he originated from Tottenham in North London and has produced many successful grime/hiphop songs such as ‘Tracktor’ and number one single ‘Don’t go’. Throughout the research we did into our song choice, we analysed a variety of different genres and found that wretch 32’s songs had an appeal to all of us and then leading on to us finding our song choice; ‘Don’t be afraid’ – wretch 32 featuring Delilah.
The harsh and dark narrative to our music video we felt suited the harsh and gritty sounds of the beat and the vocals, Grime's tempo is around 140 beats per minute. Style of flow also varies but it’s most common for rappers or MCs such as Wretch 32 to "spit" double time or aggressively over the beat which again helped influence the more angry and violent aspect. Yet we do have a vulnerable edge to out narrative and on the chorus the use of soft female vocals use of a piano, a much more elegant instrument helped us display this vulnerability.