"Famous" is a song by

Tinchy Stryder Kwasi Esono Danquah III ( ; born 14 September 1986), known by the stage name Tinchy Stryder, is a Ghanaian British, Ghanaian-British rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and investor. Stryder has released three solo (music), solo studio al ...

, released as a promotional single from his third solo

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, '' Third Strike''. The song was also included on Stryder's fourth

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, '' III EP''. The song was written and produced by

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producer

Israel Cruz Israel Cruz is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer. Cruz was born in Quezon City, Philippines and at the age of 3 moved to Melbourne, Australia with his family. He lives in Sydney, Australia with friends and has written and perf ...

Music video

A music video was made for the song, and directed by Tinchy Stryder and music video director Luke Monaghan, who also was one of the three directors of the video for Stryder's 2011 hit single Spaceship, and was uploaded to Tinchy Stryder's official

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channel on Thursday, 11 November 2010, at a total length of four minutes and eight seconds.. Retrieved Tuesday, October 18, 2011. The video was filmed in a Jet Center, and finds Stryder chopping out his rhymes and boasting, over "harsh lurching beats and heavy riffs, about "how people are jealous of him because he's famous", a line which he bellows at every opportunity, whilst the film camera is closely fixed on his every movement throughout the length of the video.

References

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