Seamus Heaney's top hip hop picks

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Nelly
“That the young man Nelly is from the Southern states should be apparent, for he still wears the bandage of atrocity on his left cheek. Let us listen, though, to the deeper line. Here, the ornate vernacular of the rural bursts forth – imperial with leisure, pompous, liberated from the stubborn casings of form. His country grammar is uncompromising.”