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8 BAR: THE EVOLUTION OF GRIME

GUNPOWDER & SKY - as SALES All rights, WW ex UK Free TV

Musical - Completed 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Musical, Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Synopsis
- Grime. They called it “young black kids’ punk rock.” Genre radio stations wouldn’t play. A music that labels didn’t know how to sell. But grime would not be stopped. With machine gun lyrics that shred eardrums and syncopated electronica that pounds the chest like a sledgehammer, grime was a product of social unrest, urban culture and disenfranchised youth colliding in the UK in the early 2000s. It didn’t just find an audience - it took one in a battle of backbeats, blood and bullets. Today, grime is surging in popularity all over the globe and has widely influenced underground music, yet few know the genesis of this genre.