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Article: GRIME DOES PAY; Chipmunk is on crest of a new wave with a No.1 single and a MOBO.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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Byline: John Dingwall
CHART-TOPPER Chipmunk didn't need to attend the Brits school to get a music education.
The 18-year-old freestyler - currently No.1 in the singles chart with his latest hit, Oopsy Daisy - turned to teachers at his local secondary school for the perfect pop apprenticeship.
Taught at the inner city Gladesmore Community School - in Tottenham, North London - Chipmunk said: "At break-time, we would get our mobile phone out and do our best rapping to the beats.
"My teachers were pretty cool. At lunchtime, they let us have a ...