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Little T’s ready for the big time?

April 01, 2011

This is rapper Little T who is hoping to emulate the success of Arborfield X Factor star Danyl Johnson when he auditions in front of the judges for the TV talent show on Sunday.

The 24-year-old musician from Overdown Road, Tilehurst, will be out to impress the judges in front of a live audience at the ExCeL London.

The warehouse operative will be performing Invincible by Brit award-winning rapper Tinie Tempah and is confident he has what it takes to win the competition and take the music world by storm.

Little T, also known as Lewis Chapple, who lists Michael Jackson, 2Pac and Chipmunk among his inspirations, reckons he could be the British answer to Eminem.

He told getreading his street name used to be Turtle but because of his stature he changed it to Little T, and while he dreams of hitting the big time he also wants a better life for his two-year-old daughter Tori-Lei.

His father left him not long after he was born and he readily admits to having been in trouble with the law, but is determined to turn his life around.

The former Denefield pupil said: “I’ve always been street and versatile and can do all sorts, but most of all they are looking for the likeable factor and I’m told I’ve got that. My singing is all right but it’s mainly rapping I am good at.

“That is what they said when I first went up there and my friends and family have said that as well. I reckon I’ve got a good chance. I’ve got the confidence – nerves aren’t a part of me. Anything can happen at the end of the day.”

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Those photos are so very (sub)urban street.

I often wondered how the really deluded individuals ever got on TV without friends and family warning them it would be a mistake. And now I've read the comments from his friends, I realise it's because the people around these headcases are also slightly nuts.

Should make for hilarious TV anyway.

Nowtas, Reading West
05/04/2011 at 14:01

Doodles, he is definitely the biggest i've seen so far! hahaha

Brad .
04/04/2011 at 14:28

@Brad - "To each individual that has made derogatory comments, just because you aren't looking for bigger and better things in your life and he is doesn't make him a vagina."

It's funny because it's untrue! In fact I'd go as far as to say he's quite a big one....

Blue Doodles, West Reading
04/04/2011 at 14:13

@gstar - "he does dat dnt make him a twat"...

But dnt he does wear dat hat,an show his chest off innit which does do make him a twat?

Lester Crinklesack
04/04/2011 at 14:12

Well gstar (isn't that some kind of primark chic) certainly the homophobic nature of the genre is in your incomprehensible reply. All you need now is the calling women ho's and f**k the police and you have the basis of 99% of the "artform".

I Ron
04/04/2011 at 13:55

Something like this Whitespirit:

"To each individual that has made derogatory comments, just because you aren't looking for bigger and better things in your life and he is doesn't make him a vagina. I know him very well, and he has always been a good day from the beginning of our friendship until now. And just so you balls of offal, pork and herbs know, he got through the regional auditions with positive comments from all of the judges, so you were all incorrect in your assumptions. So go and cry about it because you don't have any talent, and he has."

What gstar doesn't realise, is that in the regional auditions they let through those with talent, and those complete muppets who make the initial epsiodes of the show worth watching - to laugh at! Little T is clearly the latter...and I honestly can't wait to see it! If he really had ANY talent, he'd have some music on YouTube / Facebook / Twitter / MySpace...but he has none, just some stupid pictures on GetReading flexing his, umm, bones.

Brad .
04/04/2011 at 13:35

Translation of that gansta gibberish into something approaching English please?

whitespirit
04/04/2011 at 13:11

all u people sayin bad tings bout him but just cuz u dnt want anymore in life and he does dat dnt make him a twat,i no him very well and he is my boy frm day1. and just so u faggots no he got through wit all good comments frm da judges so u was all wrong. suck out just cuz u aint got no talent and he has

gstar, reading
04/04/2011 at 13:04

Lardy, so what if he has entered a reality show? I mean really. Sad enough that someone really thinks the way out for them is to enter one of these moronic shows but he has obviously then thought it was a good idea to go to the local paper to advertise this fact.

He is now fair game afaic.

If he had simply done what Adele, for example, did and gigged his way to the top then I would be applauding him quite frankly. He didn't. Another essentially talentless no-mark who can't even be bothered to put in the hard work needed to turn his life into something. Forget him, in 12 months he will be as well known as Danyl is, and justifiably so.

whitespirit
04/04/2011 at 12:50

Oi Lardy get a new name!

Lardy Da
04/04/2011 at 12:43

My guess is he's gonna be one of those deluded contestants we can all have a good chortle at.

Lester Crinklesack
04/04/2011 at 10:49

I know, a typo.

Pro Grammar
04/04/2011 at 10:25

Once again the word hatred gets misused by todays youth. If a lot more people had bothered at school, they wouldn't have to aspire to be "reality" stars. The government has done next to nothing to help thise people, either. No wonder we have five million or more not working.

Pro Grammar
04/04/2011 at 10:06

omg I thought this was a wind up :-)

fair play to him, but he should know that just because someone nicked his shirt buttons it doesn't justify nicking an old ladies hat.

two wrongs don't make a right.

rogerjolly, reading
04/04/2011 at 09:52

“I’ve always been street and versatile and can do all sorts......"

Except, it would appear, drive a fork-lift truck. Probably quite handy with a pallet-truck, though.