As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up. In 2003, Grime was the next stop on what music writer Simon Reynolds calls ...
Straight outta . . . East London? It sounds just a little ridiculous, the mere idea of English rap -- only slightly more plausible than, say, Mexican klezmer or Motor City flamenco. But hip-hop ...