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Rizzle Kicks “The Reason I Live”

I love how corny this song is. It is just unabashedly corny and sentimental and sweet, and the rappers in Rizzle Kicks don’t even try to make it cooler, more macho, more coarse, whatever. It’s just a jazzy hip-hop track about loving someone a lot, and the chorus is sung by Jamie Cullum because, like, why shouldn’t it be? And Cullum plays piano too, and that’s the best part really – it’s such a clean, sparkling sound. It edges up to almost sounding like Christmas music, and I mean that in the best way possible. And like, the sentiment is just right. This is the sort of love that is totally unafraid to seem dorky and sweet and kinda jazzy in a London lounge sort of way.

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