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After his blistering anti-Brexit debut, the U.K. rapper aims even higher on album two: ‘There’s probably a billion kids that feel exactly the same way’
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He covers everything from Covid-19 to Colin Kaepernick but the results feel superfluous rather than subversive
The rapper’s latest feels derivative compared to his influential early work
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