MIA fans might recall her collaboration with a group of young MCs from the same community back in 2008.
Their conscious rap, by MCs such as Vineet Nair (Poetik Justis) and Rohan Augustine (Supersonik) is part of a socially relevant hip-hop culture that is emerging in India, in line with the "reality rap" of Kashmiri rappers Shyn9 and EssXaar.
The resulting pattern of storms is called a mesoscale convective system (MCS).
The genre had truly become pop music, with all of the resultant pressures of accessibility, and the intricacy and subversive nature of earlier MCs had largely been pushed to the "alternative"/ underground" scene spearheaded by rappers such as Mos Def (later known as Yasiin Bey) and Doom (MF Doom).
"It's quite interesting in that a lot of the original MCs from the heyday of grime are now big pop stars," points out Charlie Dark, the show's artistic director.
In the two years since Wiley's last album, grime's gone mainstream, with assorted mediocre MCs selling millions.
Then, that smoothest of operators Buffer had the famous last words with his celebrated trademark "Let's get ready to rumble!" And the probability is that he will do so again, once the Lennon has told the watching millions "It's Showtime!" I know both well, having used them as my big fight MCs on several occasions.
Rather than grumbling about these flaws, The New Review has come up with eight ways to make awards shows sparkle as brightly as their trophies… Hire more female hosts Considering the lack of diversity at the Oscars and Baftas, it might help to diversify the MCs.
When it was commissioned, as a series of writing workshops by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the initial project saw at least 40 MCs turn up.
A lot of the young MCs are a bit more complex.
The catchphrase has been patented so other MCs have to pay to use it and is estimated to have earned him a considerable fortune.
