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We should probably talk about the passing of the late great Jamal Edwards because we just literally decide to talk about this at the top as opposed to the end because I think it's so

important so for those who aren't aware Jamal Edwards in the mid 2000s set up in his teens an online music platform SBTV which is basically the foundation of just a generation of youth music culture like a generation of music culture like it's just what he did his contribution to music to culture is

incalculable if you tried to quantify you could literally just say to everyone who did this man help and you could fill you could fill the O2 with people he helps directly

like directly in terms of careers that this man helped to launch and enabled because what he did was he took grime he took art forms that people were trying to ignore out of the silos

people trying to put them in he literally took it out like without him could easily have been he turned grime into the new rock music punk music he did that like he helped to

deteriorated that rise it literally you know you saw it happen obviously I was I saw people he elevated I saw the impact pretty much like first hand

because anyone that was making any kind of art in London the mid 2000s would have seen it and he was just always there he was always events

always promoting always pushing work out there and you look at the generation of professionalism that he wasn't just the platforms that he provided but the professionalism that he encouraged

and people and the collaboration look at the modern musicians right look at many in like before there was the whole thing like you know rappers artists

would they beef whatever like that's all part of the art form to extend but what he also was what he encouraged was collaboration

right yeah so he would for example like he there's a thing that's he on Richards manages wretch three to post it to an Instagram where basically he said that like when

jambal got his Google Chrome app that he made sure they use richest song tractor as the theme music so then rich managed to go gold with that

just a few days ago he connected Ed Sheeran with an artist and they made like a huge tune like all of that stuff like he's still doing the work

he is later like incalculable contribution incalculable loss and the thing that makes me so sad about this to be honest is like that is a man who should be at barbecues in his 80s

and awards events just getting celebrated for the contribution if that man never lifted another finger from the age of 31 to the rest of his life

he had done more for music and five lifetimes than most people like it's sorry to go for what I just yeah just just seeing you know

think about jambal which was so good is that it was always about the other people that he was trying to bring through

he never really dined out on his his own creation of the platform and you know you would see him at

see him at gigs and stuff like in the crowd even if they were showcases related to people that he was pushing

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