- also: strictly speaking Estelle is/has been more hip-hop anyway and the question of why UK hip-hop is ignored vis-a-vis why UK soul is ignored has long been a bigger beef (until white-girl soul suddenly became fashionable) (I hope this was made clear: the hyping of white girls singing soul is only a part of the wider issue, ie the entire spectrum of black British music, not just soul, being ghettoised or ignored)