7/6/2023 0 Comments Akala empire![]() His masterpiece, Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire has just stormed the Sunday Times Bestseller list, and it’s partly why this interview has taken a while to set up. I knew I wasn’t born into a meritocracy, my parents taught me that - to suck it up, work harder.”Īnd he has. ![]() And I got encouragement to pursue geekdom, even from my uncles, the ones who robbed banks. “I wanted to be an astronaut, I was a geek. “The whole of society tells you being smart is for posh people,” Akala says. Wearing camouflage sweats and dreads up from spectacular cheekbones, he swizzels, boylike, on the grand producer’s chair: less of a headmaster, more the brightest, most charmingly argumentative kid in the class of 2018. We finally caught up in his exceptionally well-shelved, Grenfell-shadowed music studio. ![]() DJ Mag’s OFF THE FLOOR worked on setting up this interview with him for a year, after seeing him outshine everyone at Grinagog Festival, and selling out Brixton Academy, smashing Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and taking over Saturday night on the BBC talking about Homer (not the yellow cartoon character). ![]() MC Akala, the stone cold power-fisted slayer of Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth freestyle session, can also take down any quasi-righteous, over-privileged member of the establishment on Question Time or Newsnight. ![]()
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