When was the last time you witnessed a track with this much heat? Jammer’s latest “Royal Rumble” features an impressive roll call of twelve grime emcees: Hyper, D Double E, Lethal Bizzle, Bruza, Royal, Face, Jendor, Footsie, Shorty, Discarda, Blacks, and Ears – and not gonna lie, it goes off harder than that kid who flicked a lighter in a car filled with laughing gas.
“I was trying to capture the essence of what our music was about 10 years ago”, Jammer says, of the track. “With a lot of artists from the underground, they get signed and the music becomes structured. I wanted to ignore formula – who says you have to have a chorus? This is lyrics for the rave and getting influential people alongside those people who’ve been putting the work in lately, bringing it to the fore.”
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Created in celebration of ten years of Lord of the Mics – the influential, legendary, iconic grime series which will see the release of it’s seventh edition this September – the Mystry produced track “Royal Rumble” takes it back down memory lane with thirteen back-to-back verses packed with unadulterated hype bars.
“Royal Rumble” sits alongside another 22 tracks on the CD compilation, which boasts exclusives from Giggs, Shorty, Footsie, D Double E, Flowdan and more. Pre-order it here. Get tickets to LOTM 7 at the O2 Academy Islington here.