These photos offer a rare glimpse into grime’s early days
Featuring red-eye flights with Wiley to clashes with Skepta, D Double E and Dizzee Rascal, photojournalist Jamie-James Medina unpacks his new photobook, Hate Is a Strong Word – and solves one of grime’s most enduring mysteries
Black News 
Nowadays, grime is all grown up. 25-odd years on from its formation, the genre’s aggressively British lyricism and driving electronic production have attracted acolytes all over the globe, and its imprint can be found on practically every British music scene that has come after it. Rewind the clock back to the early 2000s, however, and grime was concentrated in just a few tower blocks in East London. In those pokey council flats, pirate radio stations like Rinse FM and Deja Vu wouldhellip;
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