Quintessential grime beef is the dish of the day this Saturday, with Chip and Stormzy coming hard for Bugzy Malone. HARD.
The track was released on Chip’s Rap vs. Grime mixtape in 2016 as a reply to a number of shots fired by Tinie Tempah on his Junk Food mixtape. Stormzy did actually feature on some of the tracks that included the disses but didn’t realise what he was getting in the midst of, so used Chip’s track to fire some of his own shots towards Cadell, Wiley’s half-brother (the subject of a little-known track called Shut Up). What resulted was three minutes and twenty seconds of pure fire.
It’s all verse and is as aggressive and fiery as you need from a grime diss track. Stormzy introducing himself on the beat with “Eeerm, you cunt” says it all really. The pair show solidarity with each other and state their admiration for each other’s lyricism, a dig at Tinie and his cheeky omittance of his subliminals at Chip on Peak and Been The Man (the tracks Stormzy featured on).
This is refreshing evidence of the grime artist Chip can be. A highly publicised and controversial venture into the world of pop. His tracks Oopsy Daisy and Champion (featuring Chris Brown, hence the American artist’s namechecking on this track) are now infamous and are viewed by a lot of the community as selling out. The pop venture was the subject of another heavyweight grime beef Chip was involved with between himself and Manchester grime artist Bugzy Malone, with it being mentioned repeatedly in Relegation Riddim.
This is a return to the Chip that broke through over a 140 bpm instrumental though, and the inclusion of grime royalty in Stormzy makes this an unbelievable track, even long after it is relevant as a diss track. A tough feat, but one that has been navigated successfully.
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