Everyday Racism: Influence of Music

Featuring DJ RebelClash, Grove (Vocalist, DJ, Producer) & Love Music Hate Racism (Alex LoSardo), hosted by Chris Ogori.

Episode Topic: Influence of Music - the role of music in highlighting and bringing around social change. Do some stigmas around the music harm the progression of social change (i.e. violence stigma in hip-hop/drill etc).

RebelClash (Patrick Williams aka Rage) from the groundbreaking act Chase & Status who dropped their 5th studio album “Return to Jungle”. Rage is also the Creative Director for Chase & Status' brand RTRN. The RebelClash moniker was born out of his Jamaican heritage & deep appreciation for the Jamaican sound-system culture.

With their politically charged lyrics and beats inspired by dancehall, jungle and drum ‘n’ bass, there’s no one doing it like Grove.  Grove’s debut release - ‘Queer + Black’ - came out earlier this year. Inflected with hints of hyper-pop, dancehall and jungle, it’s as carefree and sweaty as it is intensely personal, charting Grove’s journey of self-discovery as they began to step into themselves as a queer Black person.

Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) was set up in 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and electoral successes for the British National Party (BNP). They use the energy of our music scene to celebrate diversity and involve people in anti-racist activity, in the tradition of the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement of the late 1970s. There have been now been many hundreds of LMHR events, from large outdoor festivals to local gigs and club nights.