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The Line of Best Fit 9/10 Stockwell's finest rapper, MC and producer releases another eclectically powerful album full of shuffling, fidgety, hard-hitting beats and powerful streams of equally forceful social commentary.
Evening Standard 4/5 Rapper Rodney Smith has lost none of his edge - despite a move to suburban Surrey - on his sixth album
DIY 4/5 ‘Bleeds’ bends and twists genres into more combinations than are possible on a Rubix cube.
The Independent 4/5 Download: Hard Bastards; Facety 2:11; Stepping Hard; I Know Your Face
The Skinny 4/5 With new album Bleeds, Rodney Smith – aka Roots Manuva – quashes the notion that middle age might have somewhat softened the Brit-hop GOAT’s gimlet eye.
Clash 8/10 Well, well, well. After four years of near silence, Roots Manuva releases ‘Bleeds’, his sixth LP to date. One of the pioneers of UK hip-hop,
The Observer 3/5 Bitterness, intensity and a beautifully idiosyncratic meditation from the gruff South London rapper
Pop Matters 7/10 Photo: Shamil.
The Guardian 3/5 There are some great moments on Roots Manuva’s sixth album, but some pretty horrific ones, too
