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Lady Sovereign

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Old school hip hop

Grime

Rising from London's grime scene, Lady Sovereign spits raps about celebrity culture, teenage trouble and life on a council estate with high-pitched venom. Dressed in tracksuits and bling she was ridiculed and dismissed for her surly, chav image, but gained an unlikely fan when Jay-Z called her to New York for an audition. Forced to freestyle in front of him, Usher and LA Reid, Lady Sovereign was signed to Def Jam Records and billed as Britain's female answer to the cheek and cartoonish bile of Eminem. Fighting back against middle England's vilification of youth culture, she launc...