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Jack Barron, NME, 15 October 1988
LONDON BRIDGE is falling down, Big Ben has struck one minute to midnight and had his hand's burned. And all is not well in this land of OZ we call hip-hop. Do we know what time it is? Yeah. It's time to get ILL.
Total word count of piece: 1410
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