Tinchy Stryder: 'Jay-Z liked what he saw in me. I reminded him of him'

The kids love him, MPs are happy to fund his records, and now Jay-Z wants to be his business partner. So what makes London rapper Tinchy Stryder such hot property?The second thing you are told, before meeting Tinchy Stryder, is that he's an unfailingly nice guy. A rapper who crossed over to mainstream pop from east London's grime scene, I'm assured he is always easygoing, his title as the top-selling British male artist of 2009 unworrying an ego kept well in check. He lived with his mum until ve...

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