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Why are UK radio stations ignoring Black British music to play recycled American rap? | Elijah
We’re already drowning in US pop culture. Surely there’s a case for giving our homegrown talent a chance to compete, asks DJ and writer Elijah
But if you listen to stations like Capital Xtra, Kiss and BBC Radio 1Xtra, they still centre American hip-hop and R&B – a staggering amount of it from the early 2000s – such as 50 Cent, Ja Rule and Chris Brown. It’s no secret that the publicly funded station faces heavy competition from commercial rival Capital Xtra, but the answer can’t be to copy its tired formula of “hits” all day and night. It would play the commercial hits and slept-on classics from the past 30-plus years of Black British artists and shine a light on areas that have been underrepresented historically in the culture from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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