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10am, she arrived. On time. Not something you hear too often, a celebrity arriving for an interview on time. She comes in and starts laughing. “I don’t know why I’m laughing, you look like my cousin though!” Lucky for her cousin then! This didn’t shock me, what shocked me was the thick east London accent.

Born and raised in the East end of London and then Essex, it seemed likely that ___ would have been influenced by pop music. But with two parents of Jamaican heritage and coming from families proud of that heritage, not even the British media could brainwash her into liking people like___. “If I wasn't at home, I was at my cousin’s. His dad was always playing some reggae and dancehall.” There was no escaping it. Her family brought the best from the west to the east, like we do. “It was everywhere! It was played at parties, gatherings etc.! I was exposed to it my whole life, so I developed a love for this genre of music.”

“I never let boys beat me at anything. I remember when I was like fourteen; I would beat my cousins at Sonic and Mario. They tried to say it wouldn’t happen again! It did.” It almost explains her passion for her music and her desire to get to the very top of the pile. Reggae and dancehall is a music genre dominated by the men, with women usually featuring as the eye-candy in the videos. ___Looks all set to change that. I went to one of Sean Paul’s concert (one of proper Jamaican ones, not the Americanized versions) and saw ___ open for him. She reminds me of The Weeknd. All these dirty, raunchy lyrics coming from a little, innocent girl. But with her moves, she leaves little to the imagination. ___ claims that she wants to carve her name into the history of reggae and dancehall, a name that people will talk about years after she is gone.