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Me On Top Down Racism In The British Music Industry

Following the hysteria surrounding Bizzle’s bottling at Download, I’ve written an article for The Quietus on the subject of top-down racism in the British music industry.

Headline:

“Is The BBC The Enemy Of Hip Hop?”

Strapline:

Last week amongst the detritus thrown at UK rapper Lethal Bizzle by the audience at Download was a banana skin. Forget about this though – a bigger problem facing UK hip hop stars, argues rapper/writer Adam Narkiewicz is the media itself.

I love Editorial Intros. Just in case people don’t actually read stuff mind, this is not me dissing the whole of the BBC. Some good people work there, and they know who they are. Anyway, go check out the article here.

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— Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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  • http://www.myspace.com/broadwaysuk Patrick

    Quite the journalist Akira. I think however that it stems from a much wider issue we have in Britain at the moment, that there is generally alot of hate floating about the place. If you stuck Sepultura on as the opening act of a Grime event then you would have almost a mirror image of what happend to Bizzle at Download

  • Akira The Don

    Well, yeah, that’s what i was saying. The problem is cultuaral seperation / ghettoisation. WEAKNESS!

  • Nic Cox

    As a fan of Metal and of Bizzle it saddens me to see the way he was treated at Download. But roll on Reading where he (like last year) will no doubt be taken in by a crowd much more susceptible to different varietys of music, i'll be in the front row… and i'll fucking mosh for you anyday Bizzle!

  • Will

    I love a bit of Bizzle but Download is a weird booking. Until he does a full remix album with gnarly guitars and live Bonham drums it doesnt really make sense. The Jay Z furore was to be expected, but if he digs into the Rocafella pockets and turns up with the P-Funk All Stars backing him and Beyonce comes and nails “Crazy in Love” he will bring the Tor crashing down. However, I strongly suspect it will be him, a sulky dj and a couple of MC mates wandering around stage with towels round their necks, Snapple in their hands and their kecks at half mast….