Jamal Edwards, a music entrepreneur who championed U.K. rap and grime and helped launch the careers of Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and others, has died at 31.
SBTV now has more than 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube and has helped a generation of performers, including rappers like Stormzy, Skepta and Dave, gain national and international attention.
"Everyone was looking at me like ‘what are you doing, like you can compete with these major corporations.' But I think I was early enough to believe that I could make a change."
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