MARK MY WORDS
This will be the first UK rapper to break in the US
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Moni Luv was the first....
I personally can't get with the dialect. That shit be sounding crazy as fuck to me.
Yeah u guess you can count that but she was not really a UK rapper per se. She was a person living in the US who started rapping. Over here. For all that, I would've named Slick Rick.
This girl's a UK rapper. Born, bred, and still repping a culture that is now, fully their own.
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What do you mean first? First on what level? Remember Dizzy Rascal had a similar buzz, but it never translated and he got on features with rappers that were popping at the time. She obviously has skills, but that fast wordplay seems almost throwback over here at this point(IMO). I don't hear anything breakthrough worthy here. 
Grime?
Hell No
Sheeeyit , she sells out shows there,and did the same on a tour here already.
And this was in a Samsung commercial , so she ain't doing bad
Technically, Slick Rick was a UK Rapper........
They're ready for HER
I covered that already
NAw man we don't want that shit over here. Thankfully.
Lmao stealing this shit
Slang for wack
Lmao , I like a few of em though. It's the accent mostly that keeps em from breaking over here. Plus their beats are -- just different than what we prefer here. She's leaning on the Caribbean thing that can make it work anywhere.
Nah she's not wack. Like you said, it's the accent that throws us off.
Exactly. Always cracked me up how all these urban areas around the world wanna be like us.Slang for wack
I mean hell....Nikki and Izzy already popularized the accent thing over here.....could work. I done got old tho...I don't relate to what young niggas is on. lol
I'm.nof too mad at this. Not crazy about it but I can fuck wit it
just wait -when Drake jacks from grime again maybe it'll pop off then
shit - he might jack this song
Yeah , he did try to give light to Giggs, Skepta, and them on his last album. I dunno if it worked. That was a huge risk. The Afrobeats influences worked but I think the grime album cuts fell flat. I'm.surr they weren't mad about the exposure and the paper though. If he produces that new TOP BOY season he better put her on something. Gonna be hard to eat Leticia Wright back to work after that Black.Panther success
Afrobeat -just like dancehall and soca - internationally will always pop off
Grime is still counter culture - feels very close to hiphop in the late 80s
I agree. And I do think that something from that culture will pop off here. Funny thing is NOW I remember something that actually did already , even though it was a joke
Gonna be hard to penetrate the US market on anything other than niche level with those accents.. That being said, the first UK artist to blow here will be whoever Drake signs and gives a hard co-sign to.
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