{"id":49417,"date":"2016-10-12T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49417"},"modified":"2016-10-12T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:45:29","slug":"an-interview-with-hip-hop-artist-akala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49417","title":{"rendered":"An interview with hip hop artist Akala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gen5feHI7Os\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>An interview with hip hop artist Akala<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vladtv.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vlad TV<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DJ_Vlad\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vladimir Lyubovny (DJ Vlad)<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gen5feHI7Os?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">U.K.<\/a> artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akala_(rapper)\" target=\"_blank\">Akala<\/a> stopped by the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/vladtv\/akala-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Vlad Couch<\/a> to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop&#8217;s influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race in today&#8217;s society.<\/p>\n<p>Akala starts the conversation discussing the difference between racism in America versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom<\/a>. Then delves into police brutality and the gun laws in Britain. Then the rapper gives a brief history lesson on Britain&#8217;s involvement in the slave trade, and how they&#8217;ve maintained a very &#8220;white&#8221; history. Akala explained there is nowhere in the U.K where there are only Black people. &#8220;You know if you go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Side,_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">south side of the Chicago<\/a>, or you go to certain parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bronx\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a>, I&#8217;ve visited family up there, and literally everyone [was Black.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In breaking down the presence of hip-hop in the UK, Akala talks about his Black Shakespeare theory, and how he believes that centuries from now, someone like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nas\" target=\"_blank\">Nas<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lauryn_Hill\" target=\"_blank\">Lauryn Hill<\/a> will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\">Shakespeare<\/a> of their time. He also explains why he feels <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Damian_Marley\" target=\"_blank\">Damian Marley<\/a> out-rapped Nas on &#8216;Distant Relatives,&#8217; after explaining why as a Black man he chooses not to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigger#The_N-word_euphemism\" target=\"_blank\">N-word<\/a> anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the educational and entertaining interview above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with hip hop artist Akala Vlad TV 2016-06-10 Vladimir Lyubovny (DJ Vlad), Host U.K. artist Akala stopped by the Vlad Couch to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop&#8217;s influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,459,13743,8,10,842],"tags":[15319,25188,24532,22954,25186,25187],"class_list":["post-49417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-history","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-akala","tag-dj-vlad","tag-kingslee-daley","tag-kingslee-james-daley","tag-vlad-tv","tag-vladimir-lyubovny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49417","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=49417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49418,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49417\/revisions\/49418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}