{"id":32624,"date":"2013-07-30T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32624"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:59:03","slug":"akala-dynamite-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32624","title":{"rendered":"Akala: Dynamite by any other name…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akala: Dynamite by any other name…<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\nThe Observer<\/a>
\n2013-06-01<\/p>\n

Kate Mossman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rapper, adapter of Shakespeare and brother of <\/em>Ms Dynamite<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Akala<\/em><\/a> is on a mission to correct a few misconceptions<\/em><\/p>\n

A\u00a0few weeks ago in these pages, Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr asked why there had been no high-profile female rappers in the UK since Ms Dynamite<\/a>. Akala<\/a> seems a good person to consult \u2013 one, because he’s her brother, and two, because you can ask Akala just about anything and you’ll get a pretty comprehensive answer. In the course of 68 minutes in a London community centre under the Westway, he talks about 16th-century explorers, Biggie Smalls, the universities of 13th-century Timbuktu, tai chi, the Black Wall Street of Oklahoma, the African city portraits of Olfert Dapper, Eminem, peanuts, Napoleon’s generals, traffic lights and golf. But back to Ms Dynamite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I remember the Daily Mail<\/em> wrote an article about my sister at the time,” he says, “and essentially their argument was, ‘Well, she’s not really<\/em> black, is she \u2013 she’s quite clever<\/em> and she’s got a white mum!’ It was so funny the way they tried to co-opt us. Remember that big story about Bob Marley and his ‘white dad’ last year? He was unequivocally black power, but he’s rewritten as this fun-loving Rasta. Mark Duggan [the Tottenham man shot by police in August 2011] was also mixed race, but no one’s ever going to co-opt Mark Duggan!”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian The Observer 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman Rapper, adapter of Shakespeare and brother of Ms Dynamite, Akala is on a mission to correct a few misconceptions A\u00a0few weeks ago in these pages, Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr asked why there had been no high-profile female rappers in the UK since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10],"tags":[15319,15318,2103,2835],"class_list":["post-32624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-akala","tag-kate-mossman","tag-the-guardian","tag-the-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51665,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624\/revisions\/51665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}