Bugzy Malone: B Inspired review – life lessons from a northern grime lord

(B Somebody Records)This is only his debut full-length, but Bugzy Malone’s life is already worthy of a three-act biopic. A charmed early childhood was ripped apart by an abusive stepfather and subsequent divorce and poverty, leading to prison as a teenager, followed by an embrace of grime with a proud Mancunian accent that sent him into the upper reaches of the charts. From the title of B Inspired downward, Malone casts himself as a kitchen-sink life coach, saying at the outset “ple...

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