Example: Won't Go Quietly | CD review

(Data)Apparently, when west London rapper Example, aka Elliot Gleave, was 10 years old he won a national poetry competition. Listening to From Space, the opening track on his second album, it's hard to see how that literary potential has been fulfilled: "I got brand new socks, pack of five/ I've been down the shops." The typical rapper bravado is expressed thusly: "Try pigeonhole me/ Other pigeons better watch." If that all sounds a bit junior school playground, he does have a point – much o...

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