Roots Manuva
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Roots Manuva: Britain's deepest rap star
Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2006
ROOTS MANUVA, king of British hip hop, tells Angus Batey about his new album, his "moronic" sense of humour — and why he pretended he ...
Roots Manuva: Brand New Second Hand (Big Dada) ****½
Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 1 May 1999
UK HIP HOP is only ever any good when it doesn't try to copy Americans all the time. A prodigious talent like Roots Manuva has ...
Roots Manuva: The Venue, London ****
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 13 August 1999
YOU COULD probably write the history of British hip-hop in this space. The problem is less a dearth of homegrown talent than a lack of ...
The home boys: Roots Manuva and the UK posse
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 13 September 2001
Who needs Eminem and P Diddy when we've got perfectly good British rappers? Dave Simpson talks to Roots Manuva and the UK posse ...
Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, December 2011
HIP-HOP DREAM-WEAVER, advocate of the Ray Charles boutique label system, Rastamouse apologist. ...
Roots Manuva: Kentish Town Forum, London
Live Review by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 28 November 2005
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING of the drunk-uncle-at-a-wedding about Roots Manuva, so it's as much of a surprise for him as for us to see ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 8 August 2001
The rising London rapper has tuned in to the sounds of Brixton to give hip hop an international accent, says Stevie Chick ...
Report and Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 26 October 2007
Stevie Chick on how UK hip-hop got its groove ...
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