Grime and Drill
Grime and Drill
The harder edge of my listening taste, the part I use when I want force, motion, and pressure instead of softness.
Essay
The Spotify export makes this pattern impossible to miss. My biggest music day of 2025 was a 522 minute run led by UK grime and drill from morning to evening, with BexBlu, Damzz, and Nemzzz holding the center of gravity for most of the day. Even on my biggest podcast day, Spotify still described the morning as grime and rap before the rest of the listening turned toward business and tech shows.
There is also a more direct clue in the sound capsule: a playlist literally named "hype gym shit" took more than 56 percent of one week and more than 77 percent of another. Combined with party tracks making up 52.5 percent of the yearly mix, this tells me I use music as fuel quite deliberately. Some sounds are there to widen attention. Others are there to produce forward motion.
I do not hear this side of my taste as contradiction. It fits the part of me that values Ambition, movement, and sustained pressure. There are days for calmer music, but there are also days when I want the queue to feel like propulsion.