Originally founded in London, England, grime music is an underground style of music very closely associated to Hip Hop, Garage and also Dancehall styles. With origins to pirate radio, artists within grime music groups tend to find themselves enjoying and achieving success within the underground listeners of music before following in the footsteps of some of the greats and making it to main stream success.
Just look at the likes of Wiley, recently teaming up with Lady GaGa and Tinchy Stryder. Both of these are very well known artists in UK music charts and both of which have been members of underground grime groups such as Boy Know Better and Roll Deep.
Taking into account a lot of different cultures, genres and styles of music, grime has become rather popular in the world of poker and many players are convinced that grime music helps them to play better. Creative in nature and innovative in style, grime is an amalgamation of so many different musical tastes with inputs from garage styles and even Jamaican music, at 140 beats per minute, meaning that is still has the pace and tempo needed to boost the mind.
Grime concerts or gigs usually take part in a scenario where two rappers or grime artists will get together and rap against each other, very much like you would have seen in the acclaimed film, “8 Mile” starring American rap artist, Eminem. It is perhaps because of this why grime music can help with the game poker, especially when it comes down to crunch time and there are only two or three of you left in the game, eagerly trying to outwit the other opponent. Battles are constant in grime just the same as they are in poker and listening to this style of music can really help to put your mind in the body to outwit and beat the other players.
Music is forever being compared to sports and games and if you suggest that hip hop is very much for dancing, grime is most definitely for boxing with choppy sounds and guttural lyrics that really gets you in the competitive mood. It is well known that the music you listen to while you are concentrating on such things as poker can really make a difference to the way you play and can sometimes out you at a higher risk of not paying attention, running on auto-pilot and therefore losing your hand but with grime music, there is no need to worry about losing attention, the changes in beat, tempo and lyrics are enough to keep you on your toes.
Poker players like Phil Ivey can be compared to music, with strong music with inspiring lyrics being the best poker players to chilled out and rather weak-lyric music being those that do not play so well. You will very often find your own music to listen to when you are playing poker but with the various inspiring lyrics in grime, it is often a clear choice.