British rapper Skepta has a message for Africans

[GrindtooFilthy]

This reads like Science Fiction. I call BS. Africans have a very tight network wherever they go and there's so many African functions in all the big cities in the UK and the US where he can mingle with other Africans, and befriend them. It was HIMSELF who sought out to not have a connection with his culture. He should stop blaming it on his "surroundings" and feeling guilty for the choices he made

And the name thing isn't even back in the day, it still happens today lol. If you don't have an Anglo Saxon sounding name, people always wanna give you a nickname

that took MANY years and a few generations to build. Any person above the age of 30 really got shyt for it. It's my generation those under 30 that are cruisin

 

[Gloxina]

A little overkill, but that may be necessary for his audience. I appreciate him saying this.

 

[Hazel Brown]

This reads like Science Fiction. I call BS. Africans have a very tight network wherever they go and there's so many African functions in all the big cities in the UK and the US where he can mingle with other Africans, and befriend them. It was HIMSELF who sought out to not have a connection with his culture. He should stop blaming it on his "surroundings" and feeling guilty for the choices he made

And the name thing isn't even back in the day, it still happens today lol. If you don't have an Anglo Saxon sounding name, people always wanna give you a nickname

Lmao you’re not from the uk. It is 100% true that being from Africa USED to be mocked and was considered uncool. People used to pretend they were Caribbean and were ashamed of their cultural foods and African surnames. This is indisputable. It is a known historical fact.

 

[UpAndComing]

Lmao you’re not from the uk. It is 100% true that being from Africa USED to be mocked and was considered uncool. People used to pretend they were Caribbean and were ashamed of their cultural foods and African surnames. This is indisputable. It is a known historical fact.

Oh ok lol, you right I apologize. My bad Biafra lady

 

[Hazel Brown]

Lmao

Big Skeppy Joseph Adenuga and his brother JME that would never look twice at black women bk in the day
Tell him it's not that SERIOUS

Did you see that JME interview he did when he was explaining why he married an oyinbo? He said there’s no black women in the UK. Man lived in fukking Tottenham.

They are the GOAT’s though. Phenomenal artists. Too talented for words.

 

[010101]

everything for fashion*

 

[Kool]

Man... these UK dudes.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Back in the day, it wasn’t cool to be African in the UK. Being African would get you clowned from teachers making fun of your name, to Caribbeans clowning you. So with that, a lot of Africans internalised self-hate & wanted to be anything but African. That’s probably the “c00n” reference.

But Skepta was the first to shake it off in UK’s entertainment industry by screaming his name “Joseph Jr. Adenuga”, “I’m Nigerian, not from St. Lucia”, & “Big bad Nigerian” in his lyrics. I guess that’s what he’s alluding to.

Dizzee?
Sade?

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Did you see that JME interview he did when he was explaining why he married an oyinbo? He said there’s no black women in the UK. Man lived in fukking Tottenham.

They are the GOAT’s though. Phenomenal artists. Too talented for words.

Lmaoooo
Acting as if he was in the backwoods of Cumbria

He grew up in the blackest of ends absolutely no excuse, even if he was 'born a c00n' he would have had to travel 30 minutes to even find a white girl

 

[Apollo Creed]

Lmao you’re not from the uk. It is 100% true that being from Africa USED to be mocked and was considered uncool. People used to pretend they were Caribbean and were ashamed of their cultural foods and African surnames. This is indisputable. It is a known historical fact.

lmfao exactly Coli nikkas love dismissing folks experience. Someone say they just got in a car accident and coli poster shows up "no you didnt breh"

 

[Voice of Reason]

Man... these UK dudes.

They are corny

 

[Kool]

They are corny

Extremely corny.

 

[the artist known az]

Skepta probably the last of a dying breed of UK Grime rappers that still on the shyt and not peepee jumping trap rappers like complete THOTS

Kano also

 

[Bonk]

Dizzee?
Sade?

Dizze Rascal is half-Nigerian (paternal) & half-Ghanaian (maternal) but he never claimed either in public. Most people don’t even know he’s tbh.

Sade didn’t get big in the UK (she was treated as an outlast & part of the misfits). She got big in the US.

I might need to go check again but Skepta was screaming “I’m Nigerian” from like 2003 when he dropped “Private Caller” (might need to go check again cos I was in school back then). But he just went mad with it when he dropped “Sweet Mother” in like 04/05.

 

[Bonk]

Kano also

Dying breed or dead breed?

Grime is DEAD.

At least it metamorphosed into drill since both are the same bpm.