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Underground rapper Lemfreck wins 2024 Welsh music prize
Newport-raised rapper wins £10,000 as judges herald ‘vision and ambition’ of three-part album Blood, Sweat & Fears
Broadcaster Huw Stephens, who co-founded the prize in 2011, said: “Blood, Sweat & Fears is an astonishing album and the judges praised it for its vision and ambition.” Together they helped to establish a hip-hop culture in Wales, with Martin also scoring major success with dance act Technotronic, co-writing their global hit Pump Up the Jam. I’m both humbled and grateful.” DJ Jaffa added: “To see so many artists from boom-bap to drill to all forms of hip-hop morph into something beautiful warms my heart … I love to see Black music in Wales.
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