Tinie Tempah
Photo: BBC
Doug Brod: “You have artists like Dizzee Rascal and The Streets, two artists that a few years ago were being counted as the UK’s credible rap artists, and neither of them made any impact in the U.S. at all. I guess [UK hip-hop] is becoming a little more poppy, a little more watered-down and that’s what can get popular here in America; something that’s not as challenging maybe, not as avant-garde, not as groundbreaking.”
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Tinie Tempah
Photo: BBC
Doug Brod: “You have artists like Dizzee Rascal and The Streets, two artists that a few years ago were being counted as the UK’s credible rap artists, and neither of them made any impact in the U.S. at all. I guess [UK hip-hop] is becoming a little more poppy, a little more watered-down and that’s what can get popular here in America; something that’s not as challenging maybe, not as avant-garde, not as groundbreaking.”
Listen: Tinie Tempah’s “Written on the Stars”
NEXT: “The new Oasis”