Word: grime
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Lady Sovereign’s generic home, the strange and wonderful London-based not-quite-hip-hop music known as Grime, is easy enough to pinpoint. But somewhere in between her North-West London home and Jay-Z’s Def Jam office, the S.O.V. started sounding like Eminem...
This kind of thing is going to have Grime purists throwing themselves in front of trains (freight, not passenger). While it’s a stock reaction for devotees of any genre to accuse those finding crossover success of betraying their roots, but Sov might deserve the complaint...
...doesn’t always leave Grime behind. The genre’s sonic thumbprints–oozing bass, hollowed-out synths, electronic squeaks, and punchy guitar doodles–are all over a few tracks...
...made of abrasion-, moisture- and tear-resistant ballistic nylon, and the wear points are reinforced with Hypalon patches to better bear rough-and-tumble conditions. The luxe new Tourbach line from Victorinox Swiss Army ($260-$700) boasts a Swiss-engineered fabric called Performax that is tearproof and grime and water repellent...
...taken in 1990 during our first postwar reunion. We are in his driveway in Saigon, he in the loose trousers and white shirt he always wore. His little Renault, which had long since given up the ghost, is lying in state behind us, covered in years of grime. We had just spent the afternoon talking about the past - his as well as mine - and the present. Ever the reporter, An was deeply concerned about Vietnam's economy and the corruption that was making it worse. "If I had known during the war that we would just be trading the Americans...