So solid crew

So solid crew
General information
Genre (s)	Grime , UK garage
founding	2001
Founding members
	Lisa Maffia
	Romeo ,
	Carl Morgan
	MC Harvey
	Asher D. ,
	Oxides and neutrinos .

So Solid Crew is an English UK garage group. Their music is a mix of rap , contemporary R&B , and UK garage . The formation consists of 30 artists including Lisa Maffia, Asher D. , Romeo , Oxide and Neutrino .

history

The project emerged from a series of parties that MCs Megaman and Romeo hosted at the end of the 1990s. The two promoted the club appearances of garage and grime musicians. This also included the so-solid parties, which enjoyed increasing popularity. The crew formed around a few musicians who worked for the pirate station Supreme FM and was a loose collective of different musicians with similar origins and interests. At the end of 2000 they released their first album Oh No (Sentimental Things) on Relentless Records . Although it didn't make the charts, it became a classic and received a Silver Record for sales in 2013 .

The following year, the label Independiente released the single 21 Seconds , in which 30 musicians were involved. The number of seconds relates to the share of the individual musicians in the song. The single rose to number 1 on the UK charts and sold over 400,000 copies. The second album They Don't Know reached number 6 on the album charts and brought two more top 10 singles with the title track and Haters . At the MOBO Awards , the crew was named Best Newcomer and Best UK Garage Act . The video for 21 Seconds received a Brit Award .

In the vicinity of the crew and their appearances there were repeated violent clashes, which also resulted in deaths. Although they were not involved themselves, the band members from south London, with their street background and the violent lyrics, were made partly responsible for the atmosphere in which the whole thing could happen. Many members remained loyal to this scene even after the success.

With the next album 2nd Verse they tried to build on the success. With the pre -single Broken Silence they had their fourth top 10 hit, but neither the album nor other single releases made a bigger impression. Meanwhile, members like Oxide & Neutrino , Lisa Maffia and Asher D had their own successes. Others, like Megaman, G-Man, and MC Harvey, came into conflict with the law. There were signs of disintegration and the collective became calmer. However, there were more releases and in 2010 the So Solid Crew was again in the single charts with Since You Went Away . A best-of album was released in 2013.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
2001	They don't know	UK6th platinum (23 weeks)UK
2003	2nd verse	UK70 (1 week) UK

More albums

• Oh No (Sentimental Things) (2000,silver Silver)
• Fuck It (2001)
• The Time Is Now (2006)
• Roll Deep Presents Grimey Vol. 1 (2006)
• So Solid Lost Tapes (Garage) Vol. 1 (2011)
• So Solid Lost Tapes (RNB) Vol. 2 (2011)
• The Greatest Hits (2013)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
2001	21 Seconds They Don't Know	UK1 gold (18 weeks)UK
	They don't know, they don't know	UK3 (11 weeks) UK
2002	Haters They Don't Know	UK8 (7 weeks) UK	So Solid Crew presents Mr Shabz
	Ride wid Us They Don't Know	UK19 (6 weeks) UK
2003	Broken Silence 2nd Verse	UK9 (7 weeks) UK
2004	So Grimey 2nd verse	UK62 (1 week) UK
2010	Since You Went Away	UK82 (1 week) UK

More singles

• Oh No (Sentimental Things) / Dilemma (2000)

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c} gold / platinum database of the BPI (Great Britain)
2. ↑ ^{a b} So Solid Crew are best newcomers at the Mobo awards , Jade Garret, The Independent, October 5, 2001 ( Memento from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Ready to blow , Jamie Jackson, The Guardian, April 24, 2005
4. ↑ ^{a b} So Solid Crew in the UK charts

Web links

• So Solid Crew at discogs
• So Solid Crew at Allmusic (English)