Or it's because a majority of the people into rap is not looking for some deep lyrics, but rather just good flow and punchlines and to be fair while Akala is good, there's many people just as good, if you ignore lyrical content.
+AlwaysRetr0 Yeah but he brings up the fact that people are obsessed with the material wealth of rappers and that he will tell the listener what his life is like if that's what they really wanna hear..
When rappers appear on radios they bring their entourage, designer clothes and big chains, Akala rolls up in just a white t-shirt which he probably got on sale. His flow in incredible, added to the fact his lyrics carry so much meaning behind them, such a great musician and inspiration to a lot of people. Hopefully get to see him live near the end of the year
I'm a white middle class 55year old wheelchair toting granny. Thank you Akala. I've found some more rap that I like listening to and can agree with on every level. Appreciate it
I'm a white middle class 56 year old male. I'm very happy to see I'm not alone among my peers. I always post links from Lowkey and Akala to the sheeple. Some of those kids actually listen and understand the message.
PLZZZ EXCUSE THE CAPS ... YESSS INDEED ... I AM 46 ( ONLY JUST 🤫 SHH ; ) & IVE ALWAYS LOVED RAP ( & METAL + THE NEW MASH - UPS 💜 ) RIGHT BACK TO THE 80 ' S , PAC , DRE , EAZY E , CYPRUS HILL , NWA , PUBLIC ENEMY , FLAVOR FLAV , SNOOP , ICE CUBE ETC ... I DO LOVE OLDSKOOL RAP ... & I LOVE AKALA TOO ... HE IS SO VASTLY KNOWLEDGEABLE WITH AN INTELLECT MOST PEOPLE CAN ONLY DREAM OF & AS WE ALL KNOW *KNOWLEDGE IS POWER* ... GROWING - UP LIVING ON A COUNCIL ESTATE SO MUCH OF WHAT HE RAPS ABOUT I CAN RELATE TO ... & MY KIDS ARE BIRACIAL & I SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT HE & MANY OTHERS ARE DOING , IVE ALREADY SEEN THE BARRIERS & RACIST COMMENTS FROM OTHER KIDS ... BUT NOBODY IS BORN RACIST ... ITS ALL LEARNED BEHAVIOUR FROM THEIR PARENTS , MAYBE GRANDPARENTS ... AS GENERATIONS START ACCEPTING EACH OTHER MORE & MORE I PRAY IN THE FUTURE WE CAN BE RID OF DISCRIMINATION ONCE & FOR ALL 🙏🏻 BE DONE WITH THE LIKES OF TOMMY ROBINSON , EDL & THE NF ... THE VILE CREATURES ...
100%. Makes everyone’s position clear. Either help one another or be the problem. Really special. The best quarter hour you’ll spend is listening to this. Charlie Sloth nails it as well with the reactions. Hilarious. Blown away the same as we all were but puts it into words we couldn’t.
I know how you feel but it would be a hell of a lot more productive if every time we felt disaffected by the system we actually put effort into something that changed it :)
Monty Bryant it's not about working hard at school in no aspects of any of the curriculums are we gifted with any of this info we are receiving from this amazing 14:13
One of the most enlightened people you'll find in the public eye, for anyone that says he go's on about white people to much should listen harder I'm white and all I can hear is about class inequality which is something we should all be tuning into
Revisiting all of Akala's Fire in the Booth's and I'm just realising how much of an influence he has been on my mindset. It's crazy how I'm much (more) open-minded and completely open to learning new things and actually seek out and enjoy learning new things. I can't help but feel that Akala's and his music are a partial influence and even though he won't see this, THANK YOU. You're a genius!
From 9:25- 13:40 something happened that hasn't happened in a while... Real hip-hop nearly brought me too tears.. You lot can say im moist or whatever but it's real talks.. Bring hip-hop back! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!
Look up lowkey, he's just as deep believe me, these 2 are on par with eachother, lowkey is very articulate and lyrical skill + message is on the same level believe me! I've been listening to these guys for years :D
Akala didn't exactly say he himself was like Tupac, Marley and other great men but he truly is a great man that came from nothing and educated millions. Hats off man, lots of bad things have happened to me in the last week or so but I really hope I get to see you in May.. Inshallah I guess
Just read this, I never got to see you at Edinburgh. Sucks so much, I just couldn't get the tickets early because I lost my brother suddenly then as it got closer i just ended up skint.. hope I see you live one day
After listening to Akala I go and Google things he talks about and then wonder why I've never been taught about those things like the Kingdom of Kongo. Need more like Akala, educating us all, and there was me thinking I was already educated... respect Akala
Um, they let Charlie 'CheeseBurger' Sloth have this fucking show so that we could have a platform to hear Akala spit the sickest shit. Fuck BBC on every other level except this one.
I don't take lessons from very many people but today I have learned something, and spend my time properly for once. What a devestatingly awesome mc, focusing on the right message, did you here what he said before he begun? "Turn my vocals up..." Because word is more important than the beat that he surfs. Massive love for this educative scripture.
Not so sure about Mic Righteous, he was once pretty beast but now... hmm - also I gotta agree, you NEED to add Wretch's 2nd one in there, that was unbelievable! Bugsy's second one was pretty sick too.
Akala is by far the best lyricist around! Love how he doesn't back down & speaks the truth about the struggle of so many around the world. Knowledge is power
+zak akram Think vocab wise Tech has it, but the power in the words is even, still prefer Akala, his flow is deadly and he raps so many different beats. Sadistik is another great lyricist, and for vocabulary it's been proven Aesop Rock has the broadest in hip-hop
It's 1st Jan 2020 and I'm still listening. This guy speaks so much truth ... He should be played in schools. Better than any lesson I had during my school years. He makes you want to read, learn and understand.
This guy is without doubt the most compelling rapper I have ever heard. A constant stream of interesting and incisive social commentary, and not a skip in the lyrics. Love this!
i won the competition with a few others to go to the listening session and it was one of the best moments of my life, akala is so enlightening , we had major discussions and he followed me on twitter, he is by far the most educated man i have met
"When the Jamaican or Asians misbehave of course its because of their skin, blonde hair kills a million people? thats just him." Pretty much explains this country.
Very few artists have that freedom to put out what they want to...so calling them rubbish is rather unfair (i'm not defending Drake) but they don't get that final say... unfortunately.... unsigned artists with the real talk have that because they have no one above them with the money calling the shots... Knowledge is power... respect to Akala for keeping it real none stop.
The way he moves his arms with his flow makes me feel he's pulling those words out of nature. We all have an invisible field around us, Akala has his tuned down to the T. Energy just flows through him.
So true!!! I hope in twenty years these lyrics dont hit so hard because things have changed and not because things are the same and people still dont know this knowledge
After watching this my perspective of music has changed completely. Cant watch a single video without questioning the artist and what they stand for... has to be the best thing that has happened to me by watching this
How on earth is this man not everywhere? I’m amazed that I’m from the uk and I’ve only just come across him. To be fair I am nearly 40 and not a massive music person but this man deserves to be a household name END OF
I love how he goes at the left/right and isn’t taking sides just calls out all the things both sides are doing wrong! If the term “Freedom Fighter” applies to anybody it’s this man right here! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Not actually true, of course. there's tonnes of archeological research done on the celts. A very popular period of culture to study. I know what he means, though. There aren't nearly enough people interested in the countries history. Of course, the celts were invaders of the land just like the Germanics, Normans, Scandinavians etc. They too came from across the sea, and did to the beaker people what the Roamns and Germanics would do to them.
The brythonics (Welsh) we're native to this island recent study's on DNA prove that they are a mixture of Hunter gatherers that got stranded here after the last ice age and migratingmm tribes from the Basque region.
Brythonic is a linguistic definition, not a genetic one. And it describes linguistic groups from Brittany, Cornwall, Strathclyde (now defunct) and Cumbria (only used in counting sheep these day). the celts came from the continent. These lands were inhabited by the beaker people prior to that. And they must have come from somewhere. Humanity began in Africa, remember. There are no native Brits.
+Iamatreee if you find barbarianism something to celebrate yeh top prize you raped murdered extorted went and stole children to sell as slaves erm fucked most countries over for all their resources and set the countries back into a dark age. Then sit there calling them for their lack of progression. Invite people to come help the country out of a depression after a war they massively helped us to win by doing the jobs the natives were toooo good for, subject them to years of torment then call them immigrants. Erm we sent murderers and rapists to one of the loveliest continents in the world Australia quickly started to oppress the aborigines natives even stole their children and did horrible things too them and the ones that survived got released into "white society" and they either killed themselves or ended up in mental institutions due to the fear of their horrific experiences. To top it of in the resource rich east of Australia they kicked a massive population of aboriginal people
Sadly 100% correct Mike, hopefully this time we are living through historical change which will see this not being relevant for future generations of young people's living experiences, and I mean that in a positive sense. ✌❤
+Gravity Yeah he opened few shows here in the UK for Nas & Damien Marley when they were touring "Distant Relatives". He's one hell of a tough act to follow! I hope one day they all get on a track together, surely they recognized his skills.
akala is a treausre to hiphop for sure, anybody who disagrees needs to have a valid reason. dropping insane amounts of knowledge in one tune is crazy talent let alone inspiring, learnt more from this guy than my own dad defo not the only one 👌
Akala, such an inspiration! He was one of the people who got me into politics,and his song Find No Enemy has the line that has since become my motto (The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and to find no enemy.) Such an inspiration. Peace be upon you, my respect goes to you.
Akala, I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I want you to know how much you have and do mean to the movement. Especially in these times, where we're on the verge of either global awakening or global genocide, your words keep me going. They strengthen me when I'm on the street fighting. And when those who have been sleeping ask me what it will take to wake up, I send them to your music and say "first listen; then read; then fucking LEARN." Knowledge IS power. And so many would rather take OUR power than do the work to claim their own. I wonder if they're afraid of it; afraid of their own power, and that makes them afraid of us. Because we don't have to steal it. We got it. Please keep spittin truth fam.
Yeah, I know. But it's futile. The biggest demographic don't want decent, well-researched lyrics like Akala's. They want banal, brainless shit like Folrida, Pitbull, Tinie Tempah and all those talentless cretins who make millions from twelve year-olds spending their parents cash on i-tunes. That's never ever going to change.
True. Just a shame that talentless pricks like Florida, Tinie Talent (Tempah) and Pitbull get respected because some music producer made a song for them to do some shitty lyrics to.
this is legendary, makes me cheer up when im down coz absolute power corrupts absolutely but absolute powerlessness does the same! its not the poverty, its the inequality we live of everyday that will turn us insane!!!!
Carlos Howell they actually have very similar messages about classism and self-hate, kanye is just not as good at articulating himself so is misunderstood
damn !!! just recently gave the uk scene ( am from the uk ) a chance and a must admit that ive been sleeping for a long while , my ears and brain are loving this
These guys are incredible..Spitting about the Moors and Columbus...Bravo Akala and big up to Madhat Mcgore and his manager Leigh...I'm making him my UK A&R...You guys (all of you) represent Hip Hop very well...You remind me of when I was growing up in Hollis listening to real hip hop from real MC's...Dope!!!!
This just has to have more than 1.2 million views...youtube gotta be throttling that view counter somehow...i probably put down 5k views on this shit by myself 🙃
