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“Which rappers and tracks have referenced clubs or players in their lyrics?” Spits Kai Helge Aalhus.

Football references are unsurprisingly more common with UK rappers than their US counterparts, and there are plenty of examples littered throughout UK hip-hop and grime. Jack Ellis and J were keen to point out that it is rare for a song by UK prodigy Dave not to have a football reference in its lyrics. Best known is his hit with AJ Tracey, Thiago Silva, which features the line: “If I bang man’s face, man bop, then lean; KunKun Agüero, man dropped the shoulder feint once; quick-kick then I drop man’s G; first time I link her, Nando’s sweet, £9.95, I swipe, then eat; I one-two rap, she don’t give hat; Thiago Silva, man block, then skeet”.

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