Tinchy Stryder: Catch 22
Simon Price, The Independent, 16 August 2009
A VETERAN at the age of 22, already on his second album (2007's Star in the Hood won him a Best Newcomer nomination at that year's Mobo Awards) and a grime rhymer since 1999, Tinchy Stryder has managed to keep Catch 22 admirably devoid of the usual prematurely self-obsessed whining about being double-crossed by the industry and retaliatory merking of other MCs that blights too many records in the genre.
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