Tinie Tempah promises Scunthorpe visit after fan campaign reaches target
Tinie Tempah says he will visit Scunthorpe after a fan campaign prompted by the lyric in his 2010 hit “Pass Out”, in which he says he has never been to the town. The promised visit has drawn attention to the Lincolnshire town and brought local residents and online supporters together.
Scunthorpe resident Ben Johns led the campaign, taking a cardboard cutout of Tempah around local landmarks and encouraging fans to pre-save the rapper’s new album, *The Night’s Not Dead*. Tempah agreed to visit if the campaign reached 5,000 pre-saves; he has now said he will honour the deal and travel to Scunthorpe soon. “Pass Out” spent 65 weeks in the charts, including two weeks at number one.
- Tinie Tempah plans to visit Scunthorpe after a fan campaign.
- The deal was tied to 5,000 pre-saves of his new album.
- His 2010 hit “Pass Out” spent two weeks at number one.
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Tinie Tempah is a British rapper whose 2010 song “Pass Out” became a major hit. In one lyric, he says he has never been to Scunthorpe, a town in Lincolnshire.
Scunthorpe is known locally as a steelmaking town, and residents have used the lyric as a light-hearted way to draw attention to their area. Ben Johns organised a campaign involving a cardboard cutout of Tempah and supporters pre-saving the rapper’s new album, a way of signalling interest before its release.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Tinie Tempah says he will finally visit Scunthorpe after campaign by fans”.