'I'm Jammz, Hackney born and bred'
If you've never used the Wayback Machine before then I'd highly recommend it. It archives billions of web pages and allows access to unquantifiable amounts of information that may well have been lost in the ether otherwise, so when Knowledge Magazine changed their web address and decided not to take my articles with them, I made a half-assed effort to salvage them. "Articles" is probably an overstatement - my small pieces were nothing more than five minute reads intended to showcase emerging talents and labels that were breaking through circa 2010-2011, alongside my (hardly improved since) writing skills.
Out of the small pool of people I interviewed, one is still making particularly massive strides towards the peak of the Grime scene. Jammz: MC, producer and post-internet-reboot radio enthusiast, reflected via Twitter: 'It's been a long journey. Even now it still feels like year zero though.'
Clicking on the image below will allow you to read the interview we carried out in 2011, a brief but telling insight into his future plans - a conversation laden with comments that few would have foreshadowed as key to his almighty rise in the five-year window between that post and now.
His mentioned love of radio has come to fruition big style in the last couple of years, as the poster-boy for stations like Radar, Mode, NTS and more de-monopolizing Rinse as the main outlet and his name features on at least one in every five flyers for Grime nights nationwide. Ready to support the multi-platinum selling artist D∆WN, Jammz has also just finished touring with Kano, one of two MCs he described as influential when we originally spoke.
On top of giving away a monstrous free mix tape alongside Jack Dat a short while ago, Jammz has just released a four-track instrumental EP digitally and on limited press vinyl, which sold out at a frightening speed.
As mentioned, click on the image and recognise the evolution of the game's hardest worker.
Stick to your values, MCs, it works.
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