Before breaking the mainstream market, So-Solid were involved with many London pirate radio stations, one was Supreme FM, and the main station they performed on was Delight FM (103.0 MHz), where they once had most of the sunday schedule, called So-Solid Sundays. From about lunchtime until 10pm, there were different shows, where the various So-Solid DJs will play dubstep and 2 step garage tracks, and sometimes, the So-Solid MCs would rap on top of the tracks for up to two hours each session. At the height of their career, Delight FM had over 10,000 listeners, a very large number for a pirate station. On Christmas Day in 2001, So-Solid performed their last Sunday show on the station.
So Solid Crew set the trend on the underground scene and even today their success has been unmatched by any other garage crews or collectives. The So Solid Crew's first album They Don't Know was released in October 2001, followed by a remix album entitled Fuck It in December 2001.
So Solid Crew are famous also for having many members. They have all brought out solo chart singles since.
Oxide & Neutrino are also members who brought out singles but they released them before So Solid Crew. They released an album entitled Execute and the singles "Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous / Dem Girlz", "Up Middle Finger" and "Bound 4 Da Reload" (which features music from the Casualty television show).
Members Harvey, MC Romeo, and Lisa Maffia have all appeared on Channel Four celebrity reality show The Games and members Megaman, G Man, Harvey. Harvey has now become a footballer at non-league football club Lewes F.C., following a brief stint at Wimbledon. Harvey has also secured a role in a west end musical.
An associate of the band, Carl Morgan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in October 2005. On 28th September 2006 Megaman was found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.
Member Swiss released 'Cry' featuring Sharifa with a ground-breaking Burning Vision Entertainment video populated with rich imagery contained within ever moving polaroids in the background. The video, found here, went straight to number 1 in November 2005 on popular music video station, Channel U.
Outro
So Solid Crew Lyrics
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They don't know,
If it was me,
A Friend mine,
And Deeper, In my life,
Woah, Ride wit us, Come f**k wit us
Got 21 seconds to go, Something new for u and me,
Something for the racing
The lyrics to the song Outro by So Solid Crew discuss the issue of people who hate on others without truly knowing their story. The opening lyrics "Haterz... Oh no, They don't know" highlight this theme, suggesting that those who hate on others are often ignorant of the facts and circumstances that have led them to where they are today. The singer goes on to suggest that if these haters took the time to listen and understand, they may find themselves changing their minds and becoming friends instead.
The subsequent lines "If it was me, A friend mine, And Deeper, In my life" suggest that the singer has experienced this kind of judgment from others himself, and knows firsthand what it feels like to be misunderstood. This sense of empathy and understanding runs through the entire song, with the chorus urging listeners to "Ride wit us" and "Come f**k wit us" in a show of solidarity with those who have been judged unfairly.
The final lines of the song - "Got 21 seconds to go, Something new for u and me, Something for the racing, So so so solid..." - seem to suggest that the song itself is something fresh and exciting, and that So Solid Crew are hoping that it will inspire listeners to get up and dance or race along with the beat. Taken as a whole, the song Outro is a powerful statement about the importance of empathy, understanding and solidarity in a world that is all too quick to judge and divide.
Line by Line Meaning
Haterz... Oh no,
Oh no, here come the haters.
They don't know,
They don't understand.
If it was me,
If it happened to me personally.
A Friend mine,
One of my friends.
And Deeper, In my life,
If they knew me on a deeper level.
Woah, Ride wit us, Come f**k wit us
Join us, have a good time with us.
Got 21 seconds to go, Something new for u and me,
We have a short amount of time left to share something new with each other.
Something for the racing
Something to get us excited and energized.
So so so solid...
We are solid and strong.
Writer(s): Lee Coombs, Lance, Cameron F. Gipp, Jibril Lahbabi, Fabrice Chemla Copyright: Undeas Music, Reverb Music Ltd., Mutant Mindframe Music, Universal Music Publishing, Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp.
Contributed by Caroline I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.