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Pa Salieu: Coventry’s genre-blurring rising star on his journey from the Frontline to greatness

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Pa Salieu, the latest exciting, genre-blurring talent to emerge from the UK rap scene, tells NME. He’s recalling a time when he was younger where his only source of music came from an MP3 player he pinched from his cousin that had just a single track loaded onto it: ‘Touch A Button’, by the influential Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel.Salieu would listen to that song over and over every day until the MP3 player eventually broke down.

But now he sees a silver lining to that story: “Maybe it was good that I didn’t listen to a lot of music back then. Because what comes out [now] is literally what I hear in my head.” While Salieu listens to a bit more music nowadays (“I love the UK scene,” he makes a point of stressing), he continues to try.

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