garage rap # 7

Fact is, "garage rap" scored way more chart hits than grime ever did.

Including three number ones, which we'll get to in due course.

(In that sense the subject of the previous post in this series, "Oi!", was garage rap's last blast, immediately followed by a long period of grime in exile, apart from Dizzee's incursions into the outer regions of the UK chart.)

But then garage rap wasn't really