Dan Hancox in an excellent piece discussing London riots with grime MCs. m.guardian.co.uk
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It’s an age-old argument – one that most will never change their views about – but the case that music with morally unpalatable messages merely reflects reality, rather than glamourises or incites amorality, needs to be reaffirmed more than ever. If, as Martin Luther King wrote, “a riot is the language of the unheard”, a result of “living with the daily ugliness of slum life, educational castration and economic exploitation”, then this is Dr King’s language rendered as art, and set to music.
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