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Or you can let yourself discover what you love. If British dudes rapping about sports cars isn’t your personal uncanny incongruity, maybe you need Scottish dudes like Texture or Steg G rapping about climate catastrophe, or you need to hear British women rapping, like Little Simz’s jazz-poetry or Lady Leshurr’s regal freestyle. But once you find yourself trying to say that you don’t really like hip hop except for Grime and Australian hip hop – no, wait, Grime and Australian hip hop and Scottish hip hop and pink noise and trap queen and steampunk and battle rap and and and – you should just stop talking. If you like two kinds of hip hop, you can like lots of kinds of hip hop.

— Glenn McDonald

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