Urban sprawl: How hip hop conquered Europe
IQ examines the growth of hip hop across Europe, from stadia-filling US superstars to local-language acts increasingly finding their way onto mainstream festival line-ups
Feature By | 16 October 2019
For a stark reminder of how completely rap and hip hop has taken over mainstream culture, consider the case of NWA.
Thirty years ago, the group released a song that so incensed the authorities and white America – ‘Fuck tha Police’, taken from their debut studio album Straight Outta Compton – that the FBI felt compelled to write a letter to the band’s label and distributing company complaining that “advocating violence and assault is wrong and we, in the law…
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