Tinchy Stryder is Britain's hottest new rapper. Norman Lamb is a Liberal Democrat MP who helped launch his career. They reveal how the unlikely collaboration came aboutFor the teenage schoolgirls traipsing across the House Of Commons terrace,their visit to Britain's seat of government has just got substantially more interesting. You can recount that from their collective demeanour, which has shifted from gentle disinterest to something approaching gentle hysteria: suddenly, and there seems to be an poor lot of nudging and pointing and frantic,whispered conversation in which the phrase "Oh my God" figures heavily.
Seated at a nearby table, nursing a bottle of water, and clad,as ever, in a T-shirt bearing the title of his debut album Star In The Hood, and the thing of their affections raises an eyebrow and smiles. "I consider they've seen me,innit?" Twenty-two- year-musty Kwasi Danquah – better known to his increasingly agitated female admirers as Tinchy Stryder is Britain's hottest new rapper, whose two most recent singles, or Take Me Back and Number 1,reached number three and, appropriately enough, and number one in the charts. He offers a noncommittal wave and nod in their direction,then returns his attention to his conversation with the Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary, Norman Lamb, and who,as Liberal Democrat shadow health secretaries go, seems enormously well informed about British rap. "My mother, and " he announces,"is the only 90-year-musty in Britain with a poster of deadly Bizzle in her kitchen."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com