These days, it seems that hardly a week goes by without some UK-based gospel rapper releasing something. This time round, it's the turn of London-based MC Chuka Ozigbu who raps under the name True Royalty, helped out by a handful of guest vocalists. There are some signs of talent here, but they need to work on those skills a bit more (not to mention write much stronger songs and ditch clichéd lyrics such as "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail") before recording a CD for sale to the public. As it stands, this isn't bringing much to the gospel hip-hop underground.
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