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Nasty Crew
Nasty Crew (commonly stylised as N.A.S.T.Y., a backronym for Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) was a British grime crew from East London, with its members primarily from Newham. The group was founded by DJ Marcus Nasty and MCs Sharky Major and Stormin in 1999, and its membership underwent frequent changes in the following years, with most artists forming or joining successor crews by 2006. It is regarded as a pioneering collective within grime music history and several of its former members have charted in the United Kingdom, including Kano, Ghetts, D Double E, and Jammer.
Nasty Crew was founded by Plaistow-based artists Marcus Nasty, Sharky Major and Stormin in 1999 as a UK garage crew, when they were teenagers. Prior to the crew's formation, Sharky was performing at youth clubs and house parties, typically alongside Crazy Titch and Demon. Stormin had previously been a jungle MC in YGS Crew alongside Armour and Dizzee Rascal (then a DJ by the name Dizzy D), performing in Bow youth club The Linc Centre and house parties, and already had a reputation for freestyling, beatboxing and clashing other artists.
Sharky, who was originally a garage DJ as well as a rapper, met Marcus Nasty at a DJ competition where he failed to progress to the final and decided to MC at the event instead. Marcus, who already had a Flava FM pirate radio show, asked Sharky to join him for an appearance; Sharky also invited Demon, who was unavailable, so Stormin was brought in by a mutual friend in his place and the three established Nasty Crew after a fellow presenter gave them the name during their first broadcast. Stormin invited Armour to join the group shortly after its inception, and Dizzee participated in several of the crew's early radio sets, also collaborating with them on the dubplate "Ready 4 War" which later appeared on the 20th anniversary edition of his debut album Boy in da Corner.
Marcus Nasty spent two years in prison between mid-2001 and November 2003, and during this period his brother, Mak 10, became the crew's primary DJ. D Double E, Hitman Hyper and Jammer each individually joined the crew over the course of three or four months, after their own Newham-based crew 187 had disbanded following in-fighting and had given up their own Flava FM show. As D Double E remembers it:
One day at school Sharky came up to me and said he’d heard we weren’t on the station anymore and said we join their crew. I was kinda sceptical because he was a younger, but I jumped on a set with them and enjoyed it, so I brought Hyper and Jammer with me next time.
By 2002, the crew had secured a Monday night show on Deja Vu FM, through which they went on to gain regional prominence in London. Fans would record the shows onto bootleg cassette tapes which they shared with friends across the country, furthering the group's popularity and attracting regional bookings outside of London. Producer Terror Danjah, who attended St. Bonaventure's school alongside D Double E, joined the crew around this time.
Jammer and his productions, predominantly created using Korg Trinity sounds, are credited by Marcus Nasty with the evolution of the group's sound from garage to grime. Early songs recorded to his instrumentals included D Double E's "Birds in the Sky" and Sharky Major's "Dis Ain't a Game". Jammer also produced the crew's October 2002 debut single "Good U Know", which sold out "on promo". Kano, who knew Sharky growing up, and Monkstar, then known as Monkey and a former member of D Double E's prior crew M.A.D., joined the crew at the same time in 2002. The pair were asked to prove themselves with a back-to-back freestyle in Jammer's basement, after which they were invited into the group. Jammer claims that he was asked to choose between Kano and Dizzee Rascal, and made the decision based on whose tones he felt would best complement his productions.
Jammer's label, Jahmek the World, became an outlet for the group's releases including the crew's December 2002 single "Take You Out", his 2003 single "Destruction", and Kano's 2003 single "Vice Versa (Boys Love Girls)", which sold several thousand copies and later featured as a bonus track on his debut album Home Sweet Home. During this time, Mak 10's cousin Nasty Jack began inviting the crew onto his Freeze FM show on a regular basis, and was later recognised as a member of the crew in 2004. Ghetts, then known as Ghetto, had been in correspondence with Sharky and Stormin during his time served in HMP Huntercombe for car crimes. He was released on 4 August 2003 and soon joined the group; his first recorded song was the Jammer-produced Dancehall Mafia song "Mind Works", which appeared on the Lord of the Decks Vol. 2 compilation.
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Nasty Crew
Nasty Crew (commonly stylised as N.A.S.T.Y., a backronym for Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) was a British grime crew from East London, with its members primarily from Newham. The group was founded by DJ Marcus Nasty and MCs Sharky Major and Stormin in 1999, and its membership underwent frequent changes in the following years, with most artists forming or joining successor crews by 2006. It is regarded as a pioneering collective within grime music history and several of its former members have charted in the United Kingdom, including Kano, Ghetts, D Double E, and Jammer.
Nasty Crew was founded by Plaistow-based artists Marcus Nasty, Sharky Major and Stormin in 1999 as a UK garage crew, when they were teenagers. Prior to the crew's formation, Sharky was performing at youth clubs and house parties, typically alongside Crazy Titch and Demon. Stormin had previously been a jungle MC in YGS Crew alongside Armour and Dizzee Rascal (then a DJ by the name Dizzy D), performing in Bow youth club The Linc Centre and house parties, and already had a reputation for freestyling, beatboxing and clashing other artists.
Sharky, who was originally a garage DJ as well as a rapper, met Marcus Nasty at a DJ competition where he failed to progress to the final and decided to MC at the event instead. Marcus, who already had a Flava FM pirate radio show, asked Sharky to join him for an appearance; Sharky also invited Demon, who was unavailable, so Stormin was brought in by a mutual friend in his place and the three established Nasty Crew after a fellow presenter gave them the name during their first broadcast. Stormin invited Armour to join the group shortly after its inception, and Dizzee participated in several of the crew's early radio sets, also collaborating with them on the dubplate "Ready 4 War" which later appeared on the 20th anniversary edition of his debut album Boy in da Corner.
Marcus Nasty spent two years in prison between mid-2001 and November 2003, and during this period his brother, Mak 10, became the crew's primary DJ. D Double E, Hitman Hyper and Jammer each individually joined the crew over the course of three or four months, after their own Newham-based crew 187 had disbanded following in-fighting and had given up their own Flava FM show. As D Double E remembers it:
One day at school Sharky came up to me and said he’d heard we weren’t on the station anymore and said we join their crew. I was kinda sceptical because he was a younger, but I jumped on a set with them and enjoyed it, so I brought Hyper and Jammer with me next time.
By 2002, the crew had secured a Monday night show on Deja Vu FM, through which they went on to gain regional prominence in London. Fans would record the shows onto bootleg cassette tapes which they shared with friends across the country, furthering the group's popularity and attracting regional bookings outside of London. Producer Terror Danjah, who attended St. Bonaventure's school alongside D Double E, joined the crew around this time.
Jammer and his productions, predominantly created using Korg Trinity sounds, are credited by Marcus Nasty with the evolution of the group's sound from garage to grime. Early songs recorded to his instrumentals included D Double E's "Birds in the Sky" and Sharky Major's "Dis Ain't a Game". Jammer also produced the crew's October 2002 debut single "Good U Know", which sold out "on promo". Kano, who knew Sharky growing up, and Monkstar, then known as Monkey and a former member of D Double E's prior crew M.A.D., joined the crew at the same time in 2002. The pair were asked to prove themselves with a back-to-back freestyle in Jammer's basement, after which they were invited into the group. Jammer claims that he was asked to choose between Kano and Dizzee Rascal, and made the decision based on whose tones he felt would best complement his productions.
Jammer's label, Jahmek the World, became an outlet for the group's releases including the crew's December 2002 single "Take You Out", his 2003 single "Destruction", and Kano's 2003 single "Vice Versa (Boys Love Girls)", which sold several thousand copies and later featured as a bonus track on his debut album Home Sweet Home. During this time, Mak 10's cousin Nasty Jack began inviting the crew onto his Freeze FM show on a regular basis, and was later recognised as a member of the crew in 2004. Ghetts, then known as Ghetto, had been in correspondence with Sharky and Stormin during his time served in HMP Huntercombe for car crimes. He was released on 4 August 2003 and soon joined the group; his first recorded song was the Jammer-produced Dancehall Mafia song "Mind Works", which appeared on the Lord of the Decks Vol. 2 compilation.