Road rap even collaborated with Public Enemy on his album Bullet from a Gun and was the first British rapper to appear on Top of the Pops.
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10 Facts About Road rap
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Road rap was pioneered by artists and groups such as PDC and Giggs' SN1 crew.
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Road rap won a Brit Award for his number one single "Pass Out".
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UK drill is a subgenre of drill music and road rap that originated in the South London district of Brixton from 2012 onwards.
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UK drill music is closely related to road rap, a British style of gangsta rap that became popular in the years prior to the existence of drill.
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Road rap performed at the 2019 Mercury Prize ceremony, where he controversially held a fake severed head of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on stage.
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Road rap is a genre of music pioneered in South London, primarily in Brixton and Peckham.
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Road rap retained the explicit depictions of violence and British gang culture found in some early grime music and combines it with a musical style more similar to American gangsta rap than the sound system influenced music of grime, dubstep, UK garage, jungle, reggae and dub.
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In keeping with grime, road rap has suffered from pre-emptive policing with Giggs claiming that the Metropolitan Police have set out to deny him the opportunity to make a living from music having banned him from touring.
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Road rap went on to influence afroswing, which emerged in the mid-2010s.
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