Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 1 May 1999
UK HIP HOP is only ever any good when it doesn't try to copy Americans all the time. A prodigious talent like Roots Manuva has his own urban-realist take on breakbeat poetry.
Total word count of piece: 182
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