Grab your headphones, boot up Windows 2000, and fire up Bluetooth on your Motorola RAZR flip-phone: it’s the turn of the Noughties and the London dance sub-genre of grime is going stratospheric, with the help of pirate radio and Channel U.
Everybody wants a piece of the action – and that includes the five heroes of Grime Kids, BBC Three’s upcoming drama. Dane (Yus Jamal Crookes), Junior (Gabriel Robinson), Kai (Shanu Hazzan), Bishop (Tienne Simon) and Bayo (Juwon Adedokun) have just finished their GCSEs, they live in grime’s spiritual homeland (that is, Tower Hamlets), and they have aspirations towards greatness. In other words, the stage is set for a coming-of-age summer like no other.
