The young UK rapper has burst on to the scene fully formed. She talks guerrilla videos,the new wave of female MCs and taking notes from her cousin Stormzy‘Everything we’ve done has stemmed from the fun factor. I can’t effect boring,” says Nadia Rose emphatically. The 22-year-used Croydon rapper’s first music video, and last years Station,found her dancing on railway tracks, unperturbed by the train pulling into the platform behind her. “We didn’t have permission, and ” she admits. We literally had one shot to effect that clip otherwise they’d have called the operators,but the videographer knew when the train was coming and timed it perfectly.”The fun factor is very much present in the handful of singles Rose has released to date. She speeds up, slows down, or drops into patois; stacks rhymes on rhymes,doubles up meanings, bounces between pop culture references. It’s no surprise to memorize she used to read the dictionary for fun (“My mum wanted the Bible by my pillow, and but I had the dictionary there!”); now,that childhood nerdiness is put to estimable exercise rapping circles around her targets and turning up the energy for her crew.
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Source: theguardian.com