Understanding the artist

Devlin is a UK Grime artist and as we are trying to duplicate an artist similar to him it is important that we know about Grime artists and what we expect of them. We have already started filming although it is still important that we look at Devlin as an artist and analyse his gestures, body language and his tone.
Grime artists tend to use a lot of hand movement, because Grime is such a 'gritty' and sometimes 'hard' genre it is usually used to deliver a strong message, such as topics on crime, sad topics, politics etc. This may be a reason why in some areas in the UK young people use Grime and Rap as a form of threatening or delivering a message to someone or something. When I watched the video Runaway there was a lot of hand movement, being waved everywhere and Denzel our main performer delivers this well. Below are some screen shots of Devlin's expressions, body language and gestures we see often in his music videos and I hope either to incorporate into ours or use to differentiate our artist from him.

-Devlin's gestures seem slightly aggressive because he frowns a lot when rapping. However Denzel (our main performer) does not frown as much and he seems much more calm when rapping, however you see his passion through his gestures which are pointing at the audience and are waved around slightly although still not aggressive.