Shaggy
Steven Wells, NME, 24 February 2001
He's boombastic, totally fantastic, he'll do anything for love but he won't do that. Re-introducing Shaggy, the '90s pop dancehall king whose rude rhymes are setting bed springs bouncing anew in the naughty noughties.
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