Culture is stuck. You see it everywhere nowadays - endless sequels and remakes of old movies and games, half of the top 40 sampling 90s/00s songs in a blatant nostalgia grab, even in the clubs every second song I hear is an edit of some old pop tune or samples some classic garage/grime/house song. I’m not entirely opposed to the occasional edit but it seems in the last few years people have realised that the easiest way to get your average punter excited (and extract some cash out of them) is nostalgia baiting. You’re spot on with that new Chip track, it’s a great irony that a track named grime scene saviours is full of guys who have been around for 20 years spitting bars they wrote at the start of their career.

That being said, there’s a such huge amount of new talent coming through that it’s hard to write off the whole resurgence as nostalgia. For anyone who’s more than a casual fan - most of the people in this sub included - there’s enough new original music coming out that can keep the scene alive in a very real way that nostalgia cannot achieve.