Article on UB40 - Ali Campbell split
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When it comes to talking about the group’s infancy, Campbell needs no encouragement. “Back then, Birmingham was multiracial. We’ve gone backwards in that respect. If you go back to our old stomping ground – Balsall Heath and Sparkhill – black kids hang around with black kids and white kids stick with other whites.”
Campbell says that the values promoted by ensuing forms of music have changed the social scenery. “You would never have a band emerge now in the same way that UB40 did in 1979. But hip-hop came along and we inherited the segregation that it promotes.”
Campbell says that the values promoted by ensuing forms of music have changed the social scenery. “You would never have a band emerge now in the same way that UB40 did in 1979. But hip-hop came along and we inherited the segregation that it promotes.”
I'd like him to expound more as my poor little American brain can't comprehend...how does it do this? Is it the cop killa lyrics? And why aren't libs leading a crusade against this racist, homophobic music? Do I have the wrong hip-hop in mind?
