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Heartless Crew

Heartless Crew were a North London UK garage sound-system outfit — MCs Bushkin and Mighty Moe alongside DJ Fonti — who cut their teeth on pirate radio in the late 1990s before their breakout single "The Heartless Theme (aka The Superglue Riddim)" reached the UK Top 30 in 2002. Blending garage's 2-step rhythms with dancehall-inflected MCing, they're credited alongside So Solid Crew and Pay As U Go Cartel as a key bridge between garage and the grime that grew out of it.

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2002
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