The biggest mistakes people make about grime music

Know your wheel-ups from your technical difficulties and your UK rap from your grime?

Grime music is now in the mainstream but there are still a lot of misconceptions about the genre.

A journalist who reviewed Skepta's latest London gig got some stick on Twitter after confusing a grime custom for tech issues.

This list should help others avoid similar pitfalls.

Understanding the customs

Artists like Stormzy and Skepta have topped the charts and schooled the likes of Drake and Kanye West on the UK grime scene.

That's why the Evening Standard decided to cover Skepta's gig at Alexandra Palace. But then reviewer John Aizlewood thought the DJ reloading the tracks was a glitch.

"Frustratingly, not everything went to plan: songs were re-started and, at just over an encore-free hour, the audience sloped home unsatisfied."

Jeanette found it pretty funny.

"When you send your Auntie Irene from the Shires to review a Grime music gig."

Most fans laughed this one off, but not being clued up on grime culture has had serious consequences in the past.

In a review of Giggs' Landlord album, an NME journalist misheard a lyric in a song and quoted the lyrics "then man rates her" for "the man rapes her".

Naturally the rapper was furious and took to his Instagram in response.

"You're gonna get that one person that reads the magazine and thinks I don't like that Giggs he rapes women," he said in an Instagram video.

The magazine later issued an apology.

UK rap and grime

Grime and UK rap are often lumped into one genre and it was only in October this year that Apple introduced a grime category to iTunes.

But grime artists make it clear all the time that the two aren't the same.

Grime takes its influence purely from British culture while UK rap draws from a pool of references such as pop and American hip-hop.

Calling every new grime artist the 'face of grime'

Every grime artist on the rise gets branded with this title at some point.

But crowning new artists prematurely can kill a career before it's started.

The same applies to other genres but to avoid a backlash, use this with phrase caution.

Assuming that grime is exclusively a London thing

Grime crews like Boy Better Know, Ruff Squad and More Fire Crew all started in London.

So the genre definitely has its roots in the city but there are plenty of artists around the country doing big things.

Beyond the M25 people are talking about rappers like Bugsy Malone from Manchester, Hitman from Birmingham and AyStar from Liverpool.

So when you think of grime don't think London - think British.

Bugsy Malone is not a Londoner

We've contacted John Aizlewood but he's yet to comment.

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