My East End: Professor Green, musician

The London rapper on his love of pie'n'mash, why the Olympics won't benefit east London and his claim to be a genuine cockneyHow long have you lived in the East End and where? Pretty much all my life. Hackney, Stratford, Bow, Clerkenwell… It's only recently that I've moved to the dark side.In what ways are you a typical Eastender? I have a passion for pie'n'mash. I say the C-word in a way only an east Londoner can and refer to Hackney as 'ackney as I quite often drop my aitches. Old habits…I...

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