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With Pow! he wanted to “create the vibe of pirate radio on a song”.

What led to the song being banned in clubs isn’t fully clear - but Bizzle thinks a fight broke out when Pow! was played at one venue, and the news spread.

It didn’t take long for Pow! to take off on pirate radio and Channel U, which was dedicated to UK underground urban music.

On 10 December, just a stone’s throw from Big Ben, a sound system was set up and protesters started playing Pow!

Every time the grime artist’s debut single Pow! blasted through speakers in UK nightclubs in the early 2000s, there was chaos on the dancefloor.