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Wretch 32

Jermaine Scott aka Wretch 32 is the new don of UK hip hop – the metaphor man, as fellow Brit rapper Devlin calls him – whose way with words and ear for a tough, infectious beat and sinuous, memorable melody are guaranteed to bring him to wider attention next year. The boy from Tottenham, has for a while been a name to conjure within underground circles, but now is signed to Ministry Of Sound/Levels Recordings. If 2008-10 was all about the emergence of Tinchy Stryder, Tinie Tempah, Chipmunk, Professor Green, Giggs and Devlin, then 2011 is going to be Wretch’s year. Not that his peers will begrudge his ascension to the Britrap pantheon, because they all go way back, and besides, Wretch and Devlin and Chipmunk – and other legendary MCs such as Wiley, Bashy and Scorcher – have been collaborating and appearing on each other’s mixtapes since the mid-noughties