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Angel Haze - Dirty Gold

Review by Marc Burrows

Angel Haze's eagerness to sit between Drake and Minaj at the top table has to fight for space with her absolute need to empty the contents of her head.»

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Debut album from New York rapper Angel Haze. She is a mainstream pop rapper - her songs come with production by Coldplay collaborator Markus Dravs and writing credits for Sia Furler, co-author of Rihanna's Diamonds and David Guetta's Titanium. For all its musical commerciality - the glossy production, the huge, irresistible hooklines of 'Deep Sea Diver' and 'Sing About Me' - 'Dirty Gold' has its dark side: although there's nothing here as harrowing as the depiction of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child heard on her 2012 reworking of Eminem's Cleaning Out My Closet, the lyrics often have a stark and frequently disturbing quality to them.
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