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"This is What London Is": The Growth of Grime

Lloyd Bradley, Serpent's Tail Books, August 2013

"WHEN I INITIALLY started producing, I started grabbing reggae influences, hip-hop influences, mixing it with my own London flava, then you got the MCs on top of it and everything. I saw a vision. I thought 'Right, this is it! This something new, this is fresh! This can work.'

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