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One dance dubplate2/3/2024 ![]() Not just for the Eskimo Dance crew, who somehow didn’t realise that an Ed Sheeran dubplate would fail to get even the most tepid grime fan gassed, but through the way the event played out too.Īt points on Friday night, the show often felt a little frenetic and hard to follow, like it would make more sense watched back in chunks on Instagram and Twitter (there was a different Snapchat filter for each crew obv). That's not to say everything ran to plan though, as there were moments where things started to fall apart. When Taylor Gang pluck Ice Kid out of the same dimension as Frank Ocean’s second album, Chip looks genuinely shook, and you get the sense that however hard he works, Wiley’s promise that Ice Kid was the superior MC will haunt him forever. The urge to win, and thus perform, feels genuine. In the same week Wiley finally went on the record about the So Solid beef that led to Dizzee’s stabbing and their resulting fall out, it’s mad seeing Roll Deep OG’s on the same stage as Lisa Maffia and a very shirtless Harvey. While the £7 hotdogs and all-branded-everything aesthetic of London’s O2 may be a world away from traditional Jamaican sound clashes, the spirit remains. This year’s event featured Wiley’s Eskimo Dance Crew and a UK Garage all-stars team against Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang and Mixpak. ![]() Kinda like the clap-o-meter, but for grime fans who have run themselves hoarse screaming along to Fekky. The crowd then decides the winner via the ancient medium of making as much damn noise as possible for their chosen team. So how does it work? If you’re a Yank who's accidentally stumbled across this page between procrastinating and looking at fighting compilations on World Star Hip Hop, Culture Clash is basically what would happen if Rich Gang, Odd Future, Top Dawg Entertainment and Cash Money took to Madison Square Garden to compete across four or five rounds for the title of best rap group, by performing songs, cussing each other out, and securing exclusively re-recorded versions of popular hits (known as dubs).
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