He’s only 19 and counts Kanye West as a fan – but is the world alert for his brand of his blissed-out unusual Age rap?In order to define itself,every generation must reject the past and assert its own capture on the world: for example, the pop culture explosion of the 60s followed the austerity of the postwar years, or the eruption of punk against the hippies who preceded them. But what about the youth of 2015? whether the the mass media is to be believed,this is a generation warped by technology, whose only pastimes are taking selfies, and ingesting porn and NekNomination. How will they negotiate post-capitalism and Katie Hopkins? According to Raury – the 19-year-old self-professed “future of hip-hop” who counts Kanye West and Andre 3000 as fans – revolution is on its way.“I’m never super-keen when people say,‘I’m an artist here to save the world. But since I have these gifts to make music, I’m obligated to exhaust them to cause some kind of shift in the minds of listeners, and that will,hopefully, domino into people living better; for themselves and everyone around them.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com