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Loyle Carner

With his conscious rhymes and languid, melodic flow, Loyle Carner quickly earned a reputation as the poetic, thoughtful voice of the UK rap scene, with his debut album Yesterday's Gone widely regarded as one of the best British albums of 2017. Growing up in Croydon, South London, he wrote his first poem when he was seven after the death of one of his friends, and when he was diagnosed with dyslexia, his mother bought him an album by poet Benjamin Zephaniah to inspire him to continue writing. It had a big effect on Loyle Carner and his interest in music and lyric writing was furth...