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At only nineteen, Andre Jackson is releasing his second EP, The Art of Ambition, starring such songs as Game Over, Calling Me Out and Attitude. Jackson first emerged on the scene as an aspiring MC, taking inspiration from his older brothers, he got the opportunity to perform on Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth, which rocketed his career into becoming a fully-fledged Grime artist. He has previously featured on songs with larger artists such as AJ Tracey, Giggs and Drake to raise his career even further before releasing this EP. His music and his fashion are a pure reflection of what it is like growing up with influences from the streets, adjusting or dealing with things in his life that most people will never have to do. As Grime is becoming increasingly popular, Andre is gaining fans, predominately from the UK, however, Grime is spreading towards the West coast of America, meaning that his songs and EP are going more global. The song, No Words, contains a strong underlying messa

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No Words By Dave  As a lot of grime music videos do not contain females, the short feature and minimalist makeup presents to the audience that she is not really meant to be in the video and sort of out of place. This will therefore not be obvious Male Gaze, however, that will be presented through some of the lyrics. Also, as well as the clothing being baggy, it will also be 'road'/street clothing that will immediately tell the audience what genre the music video is. 

Final Song Choice Song: No Words by Dave Genres: Rap/Grime Record Label: Self-Released Themes: Anger, Disputes For my final song choice, I have chosen No Words by Dave. He is a nineteen-year-old grime artist that has become recently very successful due to collaborations with Drake, AJ Tracey and Giggs. This then launched his career further, allowing him to release his second EP Game Over. Using his own career as inspiration, I would like my music video and ancillary texts to go in this direction. To do this, I will try and show his ambition and progression as an artist through firstly using a child as the face of my magazine advert. This is because it will show his ambition as an aspiring rap star child, such as Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty that have also done this will their albums and adverts. As for the direction of my music video, again I want to show progression and an essence of a rag to riches story. This will be shown through the locations and clothing of my artist at th