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Professor Green: Alive Till I'm Dead

Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, July 2010

As fizzy, dramatic and inventive as pop should be without losing his initial grime edge.

Stephen Manderson's stage alias echoes the big-band era of jazz giants Count Basie and Duke Ellington, whose assumed titles forced America to show respect in a world where black society had none.

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