Well well well!!! What can I say! Tonight's event was definitely eventful!!!To kick off February's edition of Industry Takeover the theme was Music and Politics.
We had a panel including our chairwoman Journalist Chantelle Fiddy, political activist Jody McIntyre, Fusion, BBC 1XTRA Music Manager Austin Dobah and of course Ghetts who was also our headline act for the night.
Although Ghett's live performance of 'Don't phone me' had me spazzingly skanking out to the point where I almost lost my earring the best part of the night was in fact the Seminar, which might I add got very tense as talks of the upcoming sensus caused some booing and also a debate about whether there is a place for political messages in urban mainstream music.
Also a slight awkward moment occured between Ghetts and an audience member who seemed to think Urban music was full of nonsense that no-one could learn from, which definitely seemed to rattle Ghetts. But all was resolved with a well put statement from the artist, that there are a lot of music makers out there who don't get the recognition for making music about positive and thought-provoking message that they deserve.
Here's a few more of my thoughts... Sorry for the rant LMAO
HAVE THEY GONE TOO FAR?
