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Derek B: Rapping for the Yankee Dollar?

James Brown, New Musical Express, 7 May 1988

DEREK B is Britain's first serious contender for the crown of international rap. JAMES BROWN bows to the boy from Bow but wonders whether the lure of lucre is about to undermine Britain's rap war of independence.

Total word count of piece: 2914

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