You may have heard Child singing sensation, Soulja Boy’s latest track ‘Kiss me thru the phone’ blaring from someone’s mobile at the back of the bus. Although the sound quality is probably too poor to hear any of the actual words, you may have noticed him dishing out an Oldham phone number.

Unfortunately for his Lancastrian fan base, ‘Mr. Superman’ has not relocated to the Greater Manchester area. In the same vein as the rest of his music, he simply wrote down the first numbers that came into his head. Unfortunately for Gerry Matley (54) and his wife Catriona Howard Smith (52) the random number that transferred from S. Beezys brain via his crayon to his jotter just happened to be their phone number.

They now receive in excess of 60 calls per day from what can only be described as optimistic half-wits hoping for a friendly chat with their favourite wannabe thug. See what Gerry and Catriona think on the BBC website.

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Seemingly paving the way for the inevitable Raekwon high concept vehicle, Coolio steals a lead and becomes the first MC to re-imagine himself as a ghetto chef. With his regulation sunglasses and pin up girl helpers, not since Floyd has there been a more genuinely maverick cook on our screens.

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Naked ambition, taught drama, post-modern storytelling, visceral acting, screenwriting vision… R Kelly may have got his wings clipped doing bird but as this timeless, legendary epic shows the man’s genius as he reinvents urban opera. With lines such as ‘Next thing you know a call comes through on my cell phone / I try my best to put it on vibrate / But from the way I could tell it was too late / the power of the piece is jaw droppingly undeniable. I am not quite sure how many episodes exist but like the Wire I am sure it goes out on top of it’s game.

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