Gabriel Tate 

People Just Do Nothing: DJ Beats and MC Grindah’s top 10 pirate radio anthems

The superstars of west London’s Kurupt FM, whose comedy People Just Do Nothing is coming to BBC3 on Sunday, pick their favourite bangers
  
  

DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin) and MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa) of People Just Do Nothing's Kurupt FM
DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin) and MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa) of People Just Do Nothing’s Kurupt FM Photograph: PR

Been Here Before – Zed Bias

DJ Beats: Gotta shout out Zed Bias. He’s retiring from the DJing circuit and has set up his own label now. Maybe that’s something we could do in the future, but we’d do the DJing as well.

MC Grindah: To be honest, I think he’s being a bit lazy.

No Place Like London – Todd Edwards

MC Grindah: Like Scott Garcia’s It’s a London Thing, this is good when you’re outside the manors. Like, if you’re somewhere nuts like Bournemouth or Uxbridge or whatever, all you have to do is pull out one of these and you’ll feel instantly at home.

Bound 4 Da Reload – Oxide & Neutrino

DJ Beats: AKA the Casualty riddim. I love all these ones, where they use samples from TV and that. I think there was an EastEnders one back in the day. My favourite one is actually the Terminator tune he did. Let’s put that on as well.

Terminator – Oxide

MC Grindah: Trust me, Beats gets goosebumps from this one. His favourite film and music put together. You can’t get better.

Devastate – Live Wire

DJ Beats: I like how at the beginning of this it actually has a warning that this tune can be devastating to your ears. Actually very sensible, cos not everyone’s ready for this sort of track.

Little Bit of Luck – DJ Luck & MC Neat

MC Grindah: One of those anthems that you hear creeping in and everyone goes nuts.

DJ Beats: Neat’s got a really nice voice as well, similar to Grindah’s. Can’t understand much of what he’s saying to be honest, but lovely voice nonetheless.

Believe Me – DJ Wire

DJ Beats: Proper filthy tune. Disgusting. Unwashed. Unshaven. Stinking. Actually makes me feel a bit sick, but I love it.

Wot Do U Call It? – Wiley

MC Grindah: This one’s basically about Wiley telling people that he doesn’t make garage music. Which is weird, because garage is the most powerful form of music, so why would you try and say you weren’t making it? But anyway, grime is basically darkside garage with less drumbeats, so …

Pulse X – Musical Mob

DJ Beats: If you want to see what sort of crowd you’re dealing with in a rave, all you need to do is drop Pulse X. If it doesn’t go off then you might as well leave immediately, cos there’s no way you will ever get a reaction out of those mugs.

Get Out the Way – Kurupt FM

MC Grindah: What can I say? This one’s a classic, probably one of the most influential garage anthems of the garage revival. It ain’t no coincidence that all these little youts are back listening to garage again, not to mention probably the most famous diss tune since Tupac did that tune dissing Biggie … California Love, or whatever.

 

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