Akala – Interview on Institutional Racism and Knife Crime

This is a perceptive and stereotype-challenging interview with one of Britain’s best conscious rappers and thinkers. He addresses problems which are relevant to youth and non-white demographics and specializes in laying bear the ‘common-sense’ explanations which so often devolve into victim blaming and thinly-veiled racism or ‘othering’. Akala has a number of songs on this site which will reward careful inquiry. This interview covers a broad section of the sociological and political canon and can provide opportunities for close watching and further research as many of the terms will be unfamiliar to students. His confidence, intensity, and rhetorical strategies could also be studied independent to the content.