"Hold tight is a book about being black, British and born after 1980. Its also about Grime. Celebrating over fifty key songs that make up Grimes DNA, Jeffrey Boakye explores the meaning of the music and why it has such resonance in the UK. Boakye also examines the representation of masculinity in the music and the media that covers it. Both a loving critique of Grime and an investigation into life as a black man in Britain today, Hold tight is an electrifying and wonderfully confident debut from a music and culture critic with a very bright future ahead of him. Grime is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of earlier UK electronic music styles, including UK garage and jungle, and draws influence from dancehall, ragga and later hip hop. The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 130 or 140 bpm, and often features an aggressive or jagged electronic sound.

Rapping is also a significant element of the style, and lyrics often revolve around gritty depictions of urban life"--Publishers description.