The title says it all: this is simply greatest gift that the people of London could have asked for this Christmas. This is Rocky vs Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky III, mentor vs mentee, except in this case the winner is clear: Literally everyone. Yeezy and Drizzy have had an odd 2015. Never really here, never really there, but somehow still absolutely fucking everywhere. Hotline Bling is a cultural phenomenon. Kanye can’t but tear up every awards show around. While Kendrick seethed and spat some of the most powerful bars of his career, Drake and Kanye never broke out of a canter and still found themselves beside him on the podium. Drake dropped an album recorded in second gear that still tore up the charts; Kanye dropped a couple of hits with a Beatle, two fashion lines and a baby. Their ability to coast through one of the greatest years for hip-hop in recent memory is a testament to the catalogues of pure musical gold that they have built in their years as artists. Concrete in Shoreditch plays host to a night of hip-hop’s biggest bangers from the best in the game.

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