A beat is a living being: it is born, it grows, it becomes iconic, it never dies. It resists time and memory, it marks history, it is not a statue: it is reused, revitalized, presented to new people who will tell it to those who will come after it. A beat is the future written in the soul. The beat tonight was ‘Functions On The Low’, by Ruff Sqwad, a collective that at the beginning of the millennium helped to form the grimethe quintessential English suburban music that fuses rap with Jamaican dance. Stormzy played it loud at Super Bock Super Rock during ‘Shut Up’, freestyle which has already become one of his most iconic songs. Of course. It’s all the beat’s fault.
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