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Louise Raw talks to grime legend and ‘mistress of clashing’ LADY SHOCKER about her east London roots, the energy of the youth circuit and the challenges of being a woman in a male-led industry

LIKE grime music itself, Lady Shocker was born and bred in Bow. 

Writing her first lyrics as a schoolgirl and hanging out with renowned Grime MCs like Wiley and God’s Gift, “Shocks” went on to form Female Allstars (FA), grime’s first all-woman “crew.”

Grime was no record company invention, but a real working-class movement “from the streets,” as Shocks puts it. 

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