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Fab 5 Freddy: Streetbeat, Albany Empire, London

Mary Harron, The Guardian, 12 September 1983

ONCE DISMISSED as a novelty, rapping has proved its durability, and as soon as you think it has died another wave of influence appears. As with all pop phenomena the real appeal is not as a musical form but as a romantic image.

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