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| Years active | 2002-2005 |
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Nasty Crew (also stylised as N.A.S.T.Y, short 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 MCs Sharky Major and Stormin and DJ Marcus Nasty around 2002, 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 Jammer, D Double E, Ghetts, and Kano.
History
Nasty Crew was founded by Plaistow-based artists Sharky Major, Stormin and Marcus Nasty "at the turn of the millennium", at a time when UK garage music was beginning to shift towards a sound that would come to be known as grime. Sharky had been MCing since 1999, when he was fifteen years old, and has claimed to be "regarded as one of (if not the first) lyricists of grime". The first additions to the group were Jammer, D Double E, and Hitman Hyper, recruited from fellow Newham crew 187, who had also been active on the London pirate radio circuit with a show on Flava FM. Nasty Crew gained regional prominence in London with their show on Deja Vu FM.
Their discography includes the singles "Take You Out" and "Good U Know".
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