YGG (You Get Grime,
formerly Young Grime Gods) are a trio of
grime
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MCs. The group consists of founding members Saint P and PK (born Alexander Denzil Bamidale Johnson-Cole), both of whom are from
Camden, and later addition Lyrical Strally (born Mluleki David Mvubu), who was born in
Ealing and raised in
Sunbury-on-Thames. The group have released music through
Logan Sama
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's Keepin' It Grimy label, and are currently signed to
Flowdan
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's label SpentShell.
They have received extensive airplay on
Rinse FM
Rinse FM is a London-based community radio station, licensed for "young people living and/or working within the central, east and south London areas". It plays garage, grime, dubstep, house, jungle, UK funky and other dance music genres pop ...
,
BBC Radio 1
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and
1Xtra
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and
NTS,
and have supported
AJ Tracey
Ché Wolton Grant (born 4 March 1994), known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is from Ladbroke Grove, West London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by ''The Guardian'' i ...
on tour. In 2017, they appeared at several festivals including
Glastonbury
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, Cambridge's Strawberries and Creem and Bristol's Love Saves the Day. In 2018, they played at Detonate Festival in Nottingham, Helios Festival in Corfu, Pop-Kultur in Germany, and
Outlook Festival
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in Croatia.
Career
2006–2010: Formation as YRS and transformation into YGG
In an interview with
Big Zuu
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Early and persona ...
on Radar Radio's ''Joints Show'' on 27 July 2016, PK explained how the group originated as a five-member crew in 2006, until several members dropped out. He and Saint met Lyrical Strally years later through
Novelist
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at a cypher.
PK and Lyrical Strally met again by a chance encounter in a nightclub queue, and discovered that they were both attending
Kingston University
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, established = – gained University Status – Kingston Technical Institute
, type = Public
, endowment = £2.3 m (2015)
, ...
(studying Music Performance and Criminology & Sociology respectively).
Strally was invited to join the group as their third member.
From youth centre days... I've known Saint from primary school first of all... From there, first got into spitting and that... Originally, it was a crew called YRS. Young Rebel Soldiers... Saint wasn't there when we made that decision, so Saint come back and he was like "ras, I wanna call it YGG". Originally, there was like five members of it still... I'm not gonna tell you their names... They're my bredrins, innit... From there, obviously certain man took it seriously and that, and certain man fell off and that... We met Strally through Nov... One time I was on this uni ting... I was going there now and I seen L Esser, I was like "what?" In the rave, in the queue, I was like "what you doing here, fam?" He was like "man goes uni here!" I said "what? Link up!" Bam. I swear down, we didn't even go to no classes after that, fam, just chilling up in the park, blazing loudies... I was already going radio with Saint... and then from there... I said "yo, Strally boy, come to our side, please?" And that was it, YGG.
2010–2015: Career beginnings
Strally's first performance on live radio was on pirate station Empire. PK and Saint have recorded music together since 2010, originally operating in a studio in Kilburn.
Songs dating back to 2011 are available on PK's
SoundCloud
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account, including "Shut Your Mouth", "Live", "Radio", "We Spit Greeze" and "Worth the Wait". In 2015, they appeared on West London MC
AJ Tracey
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's breakthrough project ''The Front'', on the track "Red Bull".
2015–present: Breakthrough and ''World Domination''
The group's debut single, "Okay", was self-released on 19 September 2015, and premiered via ''
FACT''.
Joseph 'JP' Patterson, senior editor of ''
Complex UK
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'', wrote of the song: "It's a bouncy number... somewhat jovial... there's now plenty of room for a group like this in the market." Reviewing the song for ''
The Quietus
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Content
''The Quietu ...
'', Tomas Fraser observed "how different their individual styles are; Lyrical Strally, quick-witted with clear, solid diction; Saint, skippy and fast-paced (if a little erratic at times) and PK, a loud, confident, reload-friendly MC with a reputation for turning raves upside down already under his belt." YGG's second single, "Don't Talk Like That" was self-released on 5 January 2016. The song was premiered by ''
i-D'', and a remix featuring guest vocals from Spitz, Mic Ty, Big Zuu, Jay Amo and
AJ Tracey
Ché Wolton Grant (born 4 March 1994), known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is from Ladbroke Grove, West London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by ''The Guardian'' i ...
was released in June of the same year.
In 2017, the group signed to
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's record label, Keepin' It Grimy. They released a standalone single entitled "Bad" on 31 March, which was hailed by ''
'' as an "instant underground anthem". The trio released their debut
, ''World Domination'', on 28 November 2017 through Keepin' It Grimy. The project features six group tracks as well as a solo track from each artist, and was preceded by the single "Three IC3s" and the promotional single "Lyca".
's record label and management company, SpentShell. PK released his four-track debut solo EP, ''The Bad Ombré'', with the label on 2 February 2018.
'', the other two group members revealed that they too have been working on solo content: Lyrical Strally has a forthcoming song entitled "I Finesse", while Saint mentioned a song entitled "On To".
On 27 April 2018, they released the standalone single "Strikers" through Astral Black, featuring production from Jon Phonics and Impey.
Current
* Saint P – vocals (2006–present)
* PK – vocals (2006–present)
* Lyrical Strally – vocals (2014–present)
* Travis-T – DJ (2016–present)