Planning/Research/Knowledge - Musical Genre - Tears

The musical genre of Tinie Tempah - Tears is Hip Hop. However, Tinie Tempah was one of the first British artists to change the direction of what is now known as 'old school hip hop' into more of the 'Grime' variety. Grime is a much heavier style of rapping with less musical variety and focusing primarily on the words and rhyming within the song. However Tinie does not visit this genre much and stays within the mainstream variety of Hip Hop which is present today. Be this as it may, one of his first songs, 'Tears' is not the type of mainstream hip hop which is present today. It has a bigger inclination to the 'old school hip hop' genre, with lighter beats and usually not rapping about crime, violence, drugs, women or objectifying or glorifying anything which is to be seen as "gang-related". It is a sort of genre which can sometimes be seen as trying to get a positive message across, or usually telling a story from the heart. The song 'Tears' in this case falls under the category of telling a story from the heart. It is not straight rapping throughout the video, and it has a female singer (Cleo Sol) present during the song. We chose this song because of this reason, and we could all relate to the song in the sense that it is one of the genre's of hip hop that we all once loved before it had been taken over by the over produced and auto-tuned variety that you see in music today.