Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy | CD review

(Parlophone)Twenty-one-year-old Tinie Tempah's debut single for a major label, "Pass Out", was no upstart's opening salvo. It was a hymn to having made it – literally, about celebrating until one passed out. Like Tinchy Stryder's "Number 1" before it, "Pass Out" made out that Tempah was already a success story.Which, of course, he was – thanks to the hyper-speed pop accelerations of the internet age. Before being signed up by Parlophone over tea in Claridge's, the rapper born Patrick Ogwugu ...

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