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Tippa Irie: The Double Life

Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 6 September 1986

TIPPA IRIE, wide boy wonder and cultural chameleon, now finds himself torn between reggae's dub-swamped dance-halls and the glitterdome. SEAN O'HAGAN risks an ear in the rapid fire rap of the pop star who hates pop.

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