I think that sometimes Britain has to work harder to get itself out of America's shadow, which makes it, as a whole, better at music. Case in point-rap. America does Rap so much better than the UK, and when British rap really kicked in and became a big thing you could see that most of the rappers had styles borrowed from American artists-which is pretty hard to do in the rap game. So then you get people like Mike Skinner who realise this and do something original (I'm not saying it's good) with the genre, and this gives a much needed boost to all the stereotypical British rappers out there who couldn't get past the 'hooded yobo' phase. This is only a minor case, but you can see that some of our best artists have tried to do something original with a very American formula and have turned it into something very unique and British. We borrow from the yanks and make it better.
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