Arguably the most important genre when it came to the snap election in 2017 was Grime. #Grime4Corbyn was a huge movement. Stormzy calling Theresa May a paigon went viral; JME campaigned for votes; and Dave released his hit ‘Question Time’. 58% of grime fans voted in the election, and as the youth votes rise, an increasingly popular genre for under-24 year olds must have at least some impact. 

Although people seemed surprised at Grime's involvement in politics, Grime as a genre has it's place in the conversation - just as Punk did in the 80s. As a genre primarily composed of working-class people living an innner-city life, they have first-hand experience with disenfranchisement, and other issues they may have experienced at the hands of a Conservative government, and they rap about it. This isn't new. At the heart of Grime's origins, you can find artists talking about discontent, because it's what they know. Now that Grime has broken into the mainstream, it makes sense for those with an audience to campaign for a candidate that seems to understand their plight - a party with policies to improve life for them, to maybe make life better for younger generations. Stormzy even said: "My man, Jeremy! I dig what he says. I feel like he gets what the ethnic minorities are going through and the homeless and working class." These people probably have the most to lose, making their interest greater.

Grime supporting Corbyn also makes sense when you look at the smear campaign led by the media against Corbyn - not dissimilar to the way Grime and black artists even wider are shunned by the music industry. This formed another similarity between the Grime and Corbyn, and it saw JME take to Twitter to rant about it. In the eyes of Grime artists, Corbyn understood where they were coming from, and he was seen as the first politician in their lifetimes to actually care about issues that meant something to them.