Jammer
MC, producer, and scene architect who created Lord of the Mics DVD series in 2004 with his friend Ratty, filming MCs clashing in his Leytonstone basement—The Dungeon. The space's walls became covered in thousands of signatures, a physical archive of everyone who passed through. Part of Boy Better Know and formerly NASTY Crew. As he told the Guardian, his family's basement 'was a critical place for grime artists,' and the Museum of London later made him co-curator of their grime exhibition, recognizing The Dungeon's role as grime's creative nerve center. Eventually secured an exclusive deal with ukrecordshop.com that pushed Lord of the Mics DVD sales international. The DVDs weren't professional productions—handheld cameras, grainy footage, amateur editing—but they were authentic, the only archive of a culture that mainstream media ignored. As Complex's oral history notes, unless you had the newest Lord of the Mics DVD, you were already behind. Now sits on the boards of music-based social enterprise Bigga Fish and legendary underground radio station Rinse FM.