Read All About It (song)
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| Single by Professor Green featuring Emeli Sandé or Dolcenera | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album At Your Inconvenience | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 21 October 2011 (release history) |
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| Format | Digital download | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:55 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Virgin | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Read All About It" is a song by English rapper Professor Green which features vocals from British recording artist Emeli Sandé. The track served as the lead single for Professor Green's second studio album, At Your Inconvenience and was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2011. The track debuted at number-one in the UK with sales of over 153,000 copies and spent two consecutive weeks at the peak.
Additional versions of the song, entitled "Read All About It, Pt. II", by Professor Green featuring Fink and "Read All About It, Pt. III", by Sandé on her own, were recorded for Q magazine and Sandé's album Our Version of Events respectively.
A half-Italian version of the song, titled "Read All About It (Tutto quello che devi sapere)" and featuring singer-songwriter Dolcenera, was released as a digital single in Italy on 9 December 2011. This version of the song was included on the Italian version of Professor Green's At Your Inconvenience, as well as on Dolcenera's Evoluzione della specie².
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a very positive review stating:
If we were to liken it to the US rapper (Eminem), we'd suggest 'Read All About It' was his 'Cleanin' Out My Closet' moment; but in truth its lyrical content is too personal to be compared to his peers. "I wasn't even 5/ Life's a journey and mine wasn't an easy ride," he says of the tense relationship with his family after his father committed suicide, before a stadium-sized chorus courtesy of R&B-soul singer Emeli Sandé ensues. It may doff its cap to the rapping greats, but few can deny this is all Pro Green. 
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