So Solid Crew
The sprawling Battersea, south London collective turned UK garage from a sunny dance genre into something darker and more MC-driven, and their 2001 single "21 Seconds" became one of UK garage's biggest chart hits. So Solid Crew's harder, street-focused sound is widely credited with opening the door to grime and, later, to London's harder-edged rap scenes.
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2001
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we haven’t charted So Solid Crew yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.