Ireland’s hip-hop rebels: How three Belfast bros became Fox News villains

Almost surprisingly, the hip -hop squad from Northern Ireland, which is still permanently uncomplicated and that is still British until now: this is the right place. It is recognized that “race”, in the sense of the twenty -first century of the word, is not a major consideration on an island IrelandDespite some discomfort from the last immigration from Eastern Europe, Syria, North Africa and other places. Belfast and Dublin still do not have a kind of high cultural fermentation found in London, Paris or Berlin, and it is clear that the known musical exports in Ireland can be classified along the spectrum that includes rock, pop, fully and shoric music: Van Morrison, U2and Sinad Okunor, Bugs.

In fact, if there is a path that determines pop music in Northern Ireland before the Irish hip -hop hip. Knee Now the axis of the international controversy and the unconnected Fox News after its performance Coachella on April 18-will be the wonderful Punk-Pop.Teen kicksThrough the tones, which were released in 1978 during the worst years of low -density civil conflict known as problems.

There is a useful parallel at work here that amazes me as a distinguished Irish. Vaccus from Derry – a city where violent riots occurred almost every night, and its residents were not even able to agree on it name (For the Protestants and the British government, it was the case and what was Independler)-I was designed to completely out of the context that carries the impact of Ramons and children on the beach but zero of social conflict or cultural shock. This can be explained as a deliberate escape or the lack of responsibility of youth; It amazes me like telling stories, an area where Irish is known as excellence.

Initially, KneECAP may appear, quite the opposite: the hip-hop trio of Catholic societies mostly in Belfast and Derry, all of whom were born during the last stages of problems (which gradually came out between 1998 and 2004), the band embraced the high brand of the radical policy of Get-Get:: Anti-Anti-Anti-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-In-I-AN-IN-IN-IN-In-IN-IN. And anti -power personality, only for beginners. All of this is picked up in its high fake evidence (Available on NetflixWhich was included in the Oscar list in 2024 and building a world audience for KneeCAP long before their last rounds in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

You do not need to claim that KneeCAP policy is not honest to understand that it only constitutes one element of the brand that includes the very traditional Pragadoco Hipposio about sex, drug use and others Irish. The title of their first album 2018, “3cag“It requires a decoding loop: which means” trí chonsan AGUS GUTA “or” Three Lofronans and the letter of illness “, a signal to MDMA Drug StreetWho celebrated KneeCAP consumption members frequently. One of their biggest songs in Ireland. “Take the BritishIt combines political slogans, such as the Irish Republican army, with abstinence aimed at encouraging young women to attend, or … I think you get them.

I could have allocated this entire article to empty the interlocking policy about the Irish language, but you will not read it, so this will have to do this: due to the lack of anyone in Ireland, the north or the south, it now speaks exclusively as a daily language, fluency has become a distinctive cultural and political circle. For decades, the revival of the language has been associated with compulsory textbooks, traditional popular culture and an increasing gloomy version of nationalism; KneeCAP’s rise can be understood as the front edge of the general popular culture: Irish speaking is great again.

In uncomfortable and small policy in a remarkable way in Northern Ireland-which is still equally divided between Catholics who know that they are Irish and Protestants who know that they are British-the Irish language is still a political provocation. This is exactly the reason why the main rapper in KneeCAP, who follow the names in the MOCA and Móglai Bap, grew up in Irish families. But it was the most public political discourse of the group that made them in trouble – if you actually believe that getting headlines around the world is up to a problem with a deliberate confrontation rap.

MloECAI BAP, DJ Provaí and MO Chara of the Irish hip -hop collection Kneecap are attended by the twenty -seventh British Film Awards, December 8, 2024 in London. (Jeff Spice/Getty Images)Near the end of the Coachella second performance of KneeCAP last month, which was packed and enthusiastic, the band showed a series of three slides on a screen over the stage. Here it is BBC report:

The first message said: “Israel commits the genocide against the Palestinian people,” followed by: “It is enabled by the American government that arms and finances Israel despite their war crimes.” He added a final screen:[Expletive] Israel. Palestine is free. “

Then I told the leading rapper Mo Shara (literally means “my friend”), the crowd, “Irish have been subjected not to a long time ago to persecution by the British, but we were not bombed by the king’s sky ** with anywhere to go.

This may not be the most historically or deeply accurate comparison in the two conflicts, but I cannot say I discover any lies. KneeCAP was already known to the right -wing British media and politicians like the Conservative Party leader Kimi Padnosh, so you may expect the American right to be ready. You may be wrong: the storm that followed that of the anger made was incompetent, with Sharon OsborneFor some reason, progress forward as the alleged voice of pop cultural responsibility (or something like that?) To urge KneeCAP visas in the United States.

This was followed by a Fox News Sector is confusing About the Coachella “F ** K Israel” incident, in which the former NCAA swimmer turned into the right -wing influencer Riley Gen, while she admitted that she had never heard of the band, she was not confused between three Irish rapper with “active judges” in America.

I doubt that many people will find it “beyond that amazing” for the hip -hop band from a strange individual background, and you want to attract a global audience to the Left Youth Culture to say bad things about Israel. You can say, in fact, that it is somewhat lazy and not well thought out, or that KneeCAP members benefit from the so -called Irish concession, as you get people of ordinary eggs in some contexts (such as American society in general) and part of the persecuted seasons in the world in others. There is no doubt that this privilege is the reason for KneeCAP members to the United States in the first place; If anyone in DHS Kristi Noem has bothered you to check his backgrounds, he may be in detention of ice now.

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There is no doubt that this double standard of work here, but this is the double standard among KneeCAP critics on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, where they play their roles in a full filing of fingers that wear the moral collapse of today’s youth. Of course, it is important for KneeCAP members to hesitate. “In Hamas, even Hezbollah“At a concert last November, or they suggested a year ago that he deserves that the British right -wing parliament members deserve death. It is it supposed To be offensive. This band has been formed evenly “F ** K Ta Police” -Ara Gangsta Rap And early Puzzi Boys; They called themselves to the famous penalty for the Irish Republican Army: a rifle on the back of the knee. (As for their chanting of “Maggie in A Box” in honor of Margaret Thatcher, none of them is not old enough to remember – I’m sorry, this is happy.)

If it is impossible to know where the radical policy ends and the bad girl begins with the knee, then I say that this is the point to a large extent, and she gently insisted that this is not a new phenomenon in pop culture, or in culture. Elvis Presley has once described the “hunting dog” as a protest song, which leads to the conclusion that it was not half -stupid as it appeared at times.

For the circle all the way to the tones and “teenagers”, if this miraculous pop anthem is a fictional novel that was built to escape from the dark reality in Northern Ireland in the late seventies, what KneeCAP does is categorically similar. Yes, the context has turned significantly, to the extent that KneeCAP can use icons and slogans for Irish problems as paradoxical background effects or melodramatic. (It would have literally kneeling you in the 1970s.) But the main Irish paradox did not change: We are still honest in this wrong small place, and we also wanted to go out.