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The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems of course it does.
Tinie Tempah
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Tinie Tempah
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 7
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Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu
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