"Once Upon A Time In North London” -Tottenham featuring Skepta, Wretch 32 and Avelino [Reaction]

[@internationalferg]

Everybody go show Luv to where you are from & everywhere. International Ferg Merch is here!! internationalfergstore.com/ Rep ya hood !!!!

[@charleneraymond4036]

Skepta, JME, Chip, Frisco, Headie One, CASisDEAD, Wretch 32, Avelino, OFB, Adele, Lemar, Keisha White (Singers), Julie Adenuga, Letitia Wright (Shuri from Black Panther)... so much talent from this little part of London!

[@internationalferg]

Dope!!!!

[@4dra]

Isn't Headie One part of OFB?

[@riyadinho6795]

Caribbean’s actually started coming to the U.K. around the 1950’s after ww2 so there are actually some 3,4,5th generation black British people

[@htk9914]

Julie adenuga is skepta n Jme’s sister, she DJ’s and does Apple Music. She always shows love for new and upcoming artists

[@charleneraymond4036]

I never went but my mum used to take classes at the Selby Centre 😅 Julie Adenuga is Skepta & JME's sister. She's a radio DJ and has a show on KZbin called Top 5 which you should defo checkout in your spare time (the Kano & Chipmunk episodes are my personal favourites).... she can sing too but doesn't do it professionally.

[@htk9914]

Respect for truly understand the culture bro

[@GeneralCDOT]

Tottenham is one of the places with the most talent. It also home to a massive football club, at the end you saw White Hart Lane which is their stadium, the main landmark. The club also does work in the community as well. As an aside it showed an artist in there that you've mentioned once before. Tinchy Stryder. He's from Ruff Sqwad in Bow, where Dizzee and Wiley were from. While Dizzee was in Roll Deep crew they, or him were also affiliated with Ruff Sqwad. They are one of the most influential grime collectives. Tinchy was actually one of the rappers that managed to go commercial get his money and disappear. He was a legend in the game. Stormzy's Shut Up was an old Ruff Sqwad instrumental and one of my favourite grime tracks is called Anna. It's a classic.

[@1oo1optimus]

4th biggest club in london

[@ryancummins8067]

Tottenham football club is a joke😎 Gooner for life lol!

[@Psychobeppe]

I used to go to the Selby Centre, I was on a 1 year music and video production course with Wretch 32. The course was in the Chocolate Factory shown in the video which is is Wood Green and twice a week we would go to the Selby Centre to make music and use the studio

[@joeynarag4480]

Tottenham is my hometown and yes I have been to the Selby Centre, it’s like a big business centre with rooms for rent, there was loads of little rooms that businesses had in there and studios - to make tracks !!!

[@joeynarag4480]

Heat FM was in the car !!! Especially when rolling through the manor, but it’s reach was only in local areas, venture too far and you won’t pick it up !!

[@melanincloud2490]

Tottenham has some of the most talented artists. Those mentioned in the video as well as Casisdead, JME, Frisco, Black the Ripper (Edmonton) Abra Cadabra to name a few.

[@rickyrixOK]

Love this !!! Reaction to where I live and still live 💙 Tottenham till I die 💙

[@internationalferg]

Word word S/O Tottenham!!

[@eril8287]

I used to kick ball at the Selby Centre you can see all the culture there

[@pauljm78]

They used to serve good Caribbean food in the selby centre

[@jasondavis219]

Watching from Canning Town, Newham. Newham got Kano, Ghetts, J Hus, D Double E, Footsie, 21 Savage, Kojo Funds, Yxng Bane, CB, Young Dizz, Durty Goodz, Crazy Titch, Griminal, Myers, Morrison

[@peterrjacobs3953]

The clips of London in the music video of Asap Rocky and Skepta was filmed in South East London, Thamesmead not Tottenham

[@internationalferg]

Oh dope I been there before I didn’t even know that

[@peterrjacobs3953]

@@internationalferg here's some more documentaries about the UK scene hopefully you could react to these bro some of them are 10 to 30 minutes though but they're really interesting. the Roots of UK jungle is a dope doc The Police vs Grime Music - A Noisey Film kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4jCmqighbajr9U That UK Sound - Roots Of UK Jungle Documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnubaX2jmNd0jKs LDN kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2aWe36vp7p4r80 GRIME: The Documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmLQiJaundyrnrc Don’t Call It Road Rap - A Noisey Film (Full Length) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-QaGOliNd_naM

[@joezy5268]

I know Selby Centre as a former Tottenham resident. & I thought Adele & Lemar were from Hackney (a stones throw away), although I'm not 100%

[@bait1s]

you need to react to From Pirate Radio to Mainstream if you want to understand pirate radio

[@caniget500subswithoutposts8]

Ofb from Tottenham Orignial farm Boys from the broad water farm estate shown in this video

[@internationalferg]

Oh word I didn’t even know they were from there

[@internationalferg]

This is Dope!!! everybody in the comments S/O where you from and tell me something about there!! We will start Highlighting more places on the channel to get everyone familiar with everywhere!!!

[@splashnet515]

Adele was born in Tottenham but she grew up in Brixton/Norwood South London which is still hood, in fact for a brief period she went to the same high school as my older sister in Balham South London

[@sup888]

That is true what you say about the Caribbean influence being much newer than in the US, but don’t be fooled. Although yes the majority of black people came from the lates 1940s onwards there were historical black communities in the UK prior. Believe it or not but Liverpool’s black community dates back to the 1730s with some people able to go back 10 generations, plus London being around 3% black in the late 1700s.

[@nahman34]

I really recommend watching a documentary on pirate radios - it really helped the rise of "urban" music when no major radio station would give it the time of day. Think of teenagers setting up illegal radio stations in run down flats just to get their music out across London and the feats they went just to do it. A lot of stations are now major radio stations in the UK as well, such as Rinse FM, Heat FM, Flex FM. Geenus, the founder of Rinse, got his name because he would climb elevator shafts and hide it in the top of them so that the police couldnt find and take it down.

[@mikeyseven5687]

Ferg you got to check out the old school Newham Generals Westwood freestyle part 1, dizzee footsie and the godfather d double e 👌🏼

[@christycullen2355]

Channel u was a music channel where it played specifically grime garage and urban music. All these up and coming artists could pay a small fee to put there music and music videos on there and people could then text and request a song. It was like MTV for urban British music. Was a lot of dancehall and stuff on there as well. Was basically a melting pot of all this new music that was percolating

[@melanincloud2490]

Flirta D: The guy that makes noises Documentary goes deep into the grime scene

[@matthewhackett8735]

Another must watch from noisey documentary is..... Dont call it road rap! Give you a good back story of the come up

[@ralphrocky2404]

This is a vety good idea to react too instead of always having to react to music. It's a achually madd how the most talented artists come out of the roughest areas "newham, Tottenham, peckham, hackney, Brixton. Didnt even know wretch was from Tottenham haha

[@Prime-o8f]

Newham is a whole borough. Tottenham is just an area within a borough (Haringey). Pound for pound Tottenham is top 2/3 in terms of quality and quantity or artists. Chip, Skepta, Frisco, JME, Young Spray, Abracadabra, Headie One, RV, Double S, Wretch 32, Avelino.... I could keep going, I haven't even mentioned the younger Drill kids like Y.OFB and NPK etc. The only other neighbourhoods that could compare are Brixton and maybe Peckham (Peckham has the quality but not the same quantity as Brixton and Tottenham). East is strong as well, but there's no one area that could compare - only boroughs. Hackney and Newham are near top

[@mrisht2308]

Channel U was the one channel on tv that played UK underground music videos, this sort of started in 2003. After when so solid crew got shut down and banned. Grime was then birthed. WILEY played a massive part in grime and built a scene, Wiley had built and helped skepta/ Kano/ dizzee/ Kano. In America kanos name needs to spread and ghetts. The artist you have now have had no struggle. Nowadays anything goes, you say a shit lyric, it goes. Back in the day that wasn’t the case and you see fuck radio, or that room where crazy Titch and Dizzee got into a fight, so I’m a room you had to be special.

[@Sooper34]

Use to pop into selby for my curry goat during my lunch break.

[@yxngnij3596]

Big up Waltham forest north east London

[@mrebk3358]

South London birthed the most talent; Peckham, Brixton, Croydon/Thornton Heath, Battersea, Lewisham and hella more places

[@jasondavis219]

Would be interesting to do a top 3 in each borough versus competition, Newham (Kano, Ghetts, J Hus) would be hard to beat

[@C.O-EDITS]

Hackney is actually in both north and east london. Half Half

[@KOP1968]

I grew up there Ferg

[@ryanm2z171]

South is where we get it cracking don’t let the media drown you 🤦‍♂️

[@shanec3618]

Watch Dubplate Drama ..its a tv show from back in the day about the start of grime and pirate radio/clashing culture. Majority of the actors are MC's and rappers and loads of cameos from grime artists. They're quite short episodes and you can watch them all on youtube That would be good content and no ones done it before

[@1zigzags4]

The girl is jme and skepta sister Julie

[@internationalferg]

Dope thanks does she flow also?

[@caniget500subswithoutposts8]

International Ferg nah she is a DJ presenter for radio 1 biggest station in the uk

[@Rk-kp7ng]

@@internationalferg nah she's a radio dj and presenter on apple beats 1 radio.

[@adgeyuk9803]

Bro Adele obviously biggest to come out of Tottenham but grime, rap wise skepta

[@adgeyuk9803]

Ha Funny to go international ? he signed with T.I and flopped doing dumb chins with Chris brown

[@leighmurray7250]

💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥red wine and beer it's hot right now .... early morning surf ....... then my favourite KZbin reactor ...what's up ......from Cornwall UK .....can I get a," hell ya ?"

[@Jacoc323]

React to Skepta & JME New York Westwood freestyle 13 years ago Skepta been making that bridge

[@anthonysocial2211]

Fred Stones - Thoughts🔥

[@Carl_JC21]

skepta the goat

[@ajmartin3083]

Check out 10 years of Lord of the mics (documentary)

[@Jay-mp7rf]

U should react to ko daily duppy it’s a real U.K. drill tune it’s got extreme double meaning talk

[@Jay-mp7rf]

Do noisey rise of Birmingham 💯💯💯 it’s a good representation of Birmingham and it’s music scene ❗️❗️❗️

[@charleneraymond4036]

To anyone that can help, you can go to @SelbyCentre on twitter and click on their Amazon Wishlist link to buy/donate items that get mailed directly to them to give to vulnerable people in the community during this Covid-19 crisis

[@htk9914]

They shouted crazy t, he’s a legend he’s been in jail for the longest of time tho. Crazy titch- singalong for a classic

[@yxngnij3596]

Yo react to jammer hes a grime mc hes part of bbk Richi and baby mane from mali strip And lurky loose and KT from ARG They all artists from waltham forest north east London

[@GrimeMemories]

Yo fam, Frisco put out a documentary about pirate radio which is a good place to go next. It’s called Pirate Mentality: How Pirates Made Grime. On KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap22d4qKrZh_bLs These two clashes on pirate radio are probably two of the most memorable moments from the early days of Grime. Part of the reason is because it was filmed so they’ve transcended different generations of fans... Dizzee Rascal vs Crazy Titch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n52blYt7m72YqMU Wiley vs Lethal Bizzle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJe4Xmuig9-Vd9E

[@benscotti1991]

Nice video bro and big up Tottenham 👌 I beg you react to Billy billions - fuck drill

[@ergys7953]

Skepta was from Tottenham but he went to school in Sk£ngfield shout out tottenham and Enfield

[@mrisht2308]

Fuck Radio freestyles Listen to that pleaseee!! Chip/ghetts/ griminal/ dot rotton/ DEVLIN/ wretch etc

[@AntiFed1791]

Hear "Big Narstie keeps it real about Grime." kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXbap2uuhLGIf5I

[@internationalferg]

Dope I’m on it bro!!!

[@breav_384]

Bro your always reacting to the old heads that Americans won’t get behind. You gotta listen to the new vibes like kilo jugg, geeyou, asco, m huncho, millionz etc

[@internationalferg]

Bro how do you know what American would get behind and last I checked bro skepta one of the biggest artist in the states. This video is to show history bro and to learn and teach at the same time.

[@breav_384]

If you wanna know where a lot of the trap slang comes from & what it’s like as a yute in London watch county lines documentary. All these videos are outdated no one cares about wretch n them man no more

[@internationalferg]

I’ll check it out

[@nahman34]

speak for yourself brother, a lot of people do care

[@breav_384]

@@nahman34 oldheads

[@nahman34]

@@breav_384 sound

[@jackdaniels4346]

I’m from luton so I ain’t in London like dat but I swear down I do not like Tottenham literally because of spurs. COYG

[@caniget500subswithoutposts8]

S/o Luton graveside!

[@jackdaniels4346]

C J just like London tho. Apart from central

[@ukjamaican4488]

N15❤️ N17❤️ Tottenham is my home! But gentrification has made it slightly lose its vibe. Still love the place to death though.

[@joeynarag4480]

UK JAMAICAN! Yeah, well it’s zone 3 - so you know dat it’s too good for a prime location to NOT gentrify. They don’t care about us, never have. I’ll rep my hometown, N15 Tottenham, it taught me the struggle

[@ukjamaican4488]

joey narag 💯

[@riyadinho6795]

Lol ain’t no gentrification in Tottenham just yet. Only in Hackney but it’s slowly creeping here, like that big new flats they’re making near seven sisters station

[@Sha-El]

They have fixed old shops on West green road, and they're thinking about changing that Latino market at seven sisters. They're changing Tottenham hale, they're going to build a cinema and restaurants I don't see anything wrong with that.

[@ukjamaican4488]

Luciano El then you clearly don’t have deep enough understanding of how gentrification negatively impacts the local community. And that’s fine, I’m happy you don’t see anything wrong with it.