Lowkey speaks on drill music, Picasso and social inequality

Lowkey speaks on the importance of accounting for the social context of drill music and more at the Decoding Race & Masculinity event in Bristol. More content available at mandemhood.com/
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[@richardlefleur4957]

Guys a modern day genius.

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Man he's so right about the music companies

[@charlieshaw-pentek6037]

The way that the media criminalises rap/drill/grime and it's culture really reminds me of Martin Scorsese's films. Back when Taxi Driver first came out the film was deemed "dangerous" and held accountable for a clearly mentally insane man's attempt at killing a politician. And why did Martin Scorsese make such disgusting, violent movies? Because he grew up in a violent part of New York and he was just relaying what he'd seen growing up to an audience thru art and that's exactly what rap/grime/drill artists do. They're not glamorising violence, the way that rappers talk about gang crime and violence isn't glamorous at all, it's the record companies that make it look appealing, it's ppl like Sony and UMG who make the stories that rappers tell into something that's marketable and desirable. And exactly how at the time Martin Scorsese's movies were released they were demonised it's the same thing we're seeing with rap music and the same thing we saw with Jazz, Rock n Roll and any other popular music that was current in it's era. The same way they said in the 1930s that Jazz is making teenagers act evil is exactly the same as the media saying now that drill is responsible for London's knife crime epidemic, when in actuality it's the government's fault. They keep making cuts to school's staff, budget and resources, they shut down all the youth centres and they've stripped working class youth and youths of colour of any opportunity in life and constantly demonise their culture and music. Their absolute refusal to do anything about this problem and their gang matrix is a prime example of systematic racism and it's all unfolding before our eyes. The mass reporting of black on black knife crime also doesn't help either, it's not spreading awareness infact it's causing paranoia and turning black youths against eachother.

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I understand why 2 ah alyuh they to destroy meh...is the Fear I put into you and rothschild