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Approved: Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer

By | Published on Tuesday 30 March 2010

Hip hop is such an uncouth genre of music, what it really needs is a bit of style and class. Thank heavens, then, for Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer. Armed with a banjolele and a full grasp of the Queen’s English, he performs odes to pipe-smoking, cricket and the fact that Lord Byron doesn’t accept friend requests from bands on MySpace, on occasion by reworking a hip hop classic in a ‘chap hop’ stylee.

Speaking of MySpace, a number of tracks from Mr B’s debut album, ‘Flattery Not Included’, can be found there. For a quick introduction to the man and his music check out ‘Timothy’, which asks why old school chum Timothy Westwood has dropped his accent (and is also available as a free download), and ‘Straight Out Of Surrey’, a reworking of a certain NWA classic which opens with the immortal line: “You are now about to witness the extent of my cricket knowledge”.

www.myspace.com/mrbthegentlemanrhymer



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