I remember watching Kanye West perform “All Day” at the 2015 Brit Awards. The powerful image of so many unapologetically amped black men in black hoodies – so many of whom are heavyweight names in the UK grime and rap scene – was something to behold. Those men up there looked like my brothers and their friends – my “olders” who I knew growing up. I could only imagine how young black men and especially those wanting to break into music, would have felt seeing their music being represented by faces that look like their own.
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