When Dizzee Rascal released Boy in Da Corner in 2003, what struck listeners most was that he seemed to run rings around every single instrumental. The highest compliment to give Rascal’s most recent effort, the first album in 4 years, is that he still has that power. Yet with Raskit, Dylan Mills only...
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Fans of hip-hop usually pinpoint the east coast – New York and Philadelphia especially – as centres of ‘conscious’ and politically radical music. The politicised music of N.W.A. is well known, but anti-police and anti-authority sentiment is very common across mainstream California rap. Yet gangsta rap in its initial period,...
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“Narf resembles a witch in the hypnotism of her voice” Feminist author Andrea Dworkin argued in her seminal book Woman Hating that witchcraft prosecutions in early modern Europe were an attack on women which amounted to “gynocide”. She also suggests witches were in fact real women who practised alternative medicines and- as a bigger...
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