BBC’S 1XTRA MISTA JAMS TALKS ABOUT ABOUT F64

EssBee TeeVee also known as SBTV also known as lil Jamal; stepped into the music industry making YouTube video’s of grime emcees going about their everyday lives and emceeing. The artists loved him, the fans loved him and the industry as a whole became dependent on his YouTube channel for general Twitter, Facebook and drunken sleep-over gossip.

We’ve seen him grow, from a below average video with a shakey camera, to uploading a million videos a day and annoying more or less everyone by having Twitter breakdowns on how many people are asking him to do unpaid videos. The joke is: he never used to charge, but lets be realistic; aged 18 and in popular demand from emcee’s all over London was bound to put a dent in his pocket. I’ll have you know that London Underground Oyster cards are not cheap and the winter is nobodies friend!

At one point I stopped watching SB’s video’s completely. (No it wasn’t because GrimeDaily arrived). I stopped watching, because there was such an overload of videos to keep up on that it made me throw up a little bit in my mouth; a ten second clip of someone bigging up their crew.. like really SB?!

Anyway – he listened to the wise people around him, and by “wise” I obviously mean me, who couldn’t resist sticking my petite little nose in to send him an email about quality over quantity and blah blah blah. He more or less instantly shut me up the week later replying with his website print screens and a write up of what he had planned for the future of SBTV. I was impressed… very impressed.

With over 12,000 subscribers and videos in popular demand; SB provided us with a website we could all visit to find the awesomeness that is ‘grime’ in one place and even provided articles. He grabbed our lovely Dj Yasmin on board to present the interviews and bagged Trevor Nelson and Kano interviews for the not-so-grime people.

And this is where the F64 comes in… (Fresh 64 bars for you sorry souls who don’t know) The first to take the bait was artist Little Dee who claimed “Trust I’m the bare back king; you should see the type of girls I bareback in; nah I’m just f**king about, I put the jimmy on f*** and I’m out” – pleasant, but nobody said grime was polite! Everyone loved Little Dee’s F64 and decided to get a piece of SB’s 64…*pause*.

Me listing every artist who’s done one would be ridicuuuuloussss. So I’ll tell you what; picture the whole London Grime & Rap scene.. The only significant people to have NOT done one (in my humble opinion) yet include… Tinie Tempah, Blacks, Griminal, Sway, Bigz, Devlin, Fem Fel, Giggs, Wiley, Skepta, Kano, Durrty Goodz, Dot Rotton, Ghetts, Bashy, J2K, Trim Jendor, Smurfie Syco, Dizzie Rascal and forgive-me-if-there’s-anyone-I’ve-forgotten-but-it’s-1am-so-shatttt-tuppppp.

My favourite ones are below. To be fair; Chipmunks F64 is by far the best I’ve heard, but we’re keeping him out of this cause as he said himself “he’s in a league of his own”.

Tinchy Stryder

Double S (Marvell)

Master Shortie

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