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(Work-related repairs.)



Anyone wishing to understand the impact of Jay-Z and hip hop on bang-up-to-date popular culture could do a lot worse than watching Alan Yentob's Imagine "He Came, He Saw, He Conquered" programme on BBC1 tonight.

He is influenced by so many of his musical, business, political and artistic contemporaries, across all genres, in lots of different aspects of his life - to great effect.

Bow in the presence of greatness. (On iPlayer for the next few weeks.)