Kano: Astoria, London
Nick Hasted, The Independent, 8 February 2006
BRITISH HIP HOP was America's poor relation for years, but tonight Kano shows how far the UK has come since the millennium's turn. Still just 20, he grew up in the East End, in Bow, and made his name live and on pirate radio, before Mike Skinner's label signed him and stuck him on a remix of The Streets' smash 'Fit But You Know It'.
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