Thread by @akalamusic

One of the things I enjoyed/clocked re the release of #Natives was the deafening silence of the right wing press... even outlets that usually have so a little bit to say about rappers and the issues covered in the book....

Here you have a mere rapper play acting at being a historian and getting published and spending a good few weeks on the best sellers and all that. Great time/chance to show what a fraud man really is....

They were all sent the book of course and if they could have torn it to shreds obviously would have. Not to say there are not areas of valid scholarly disagreement...

But to even review my work honestly (no matter where u sit politically) would be to admit the thousands of hours of work and obvious diligence that went into it. Better to ignore entirely..

Keep in mind that the version of #Natives we released is the non-academic version in that it was originally 40k words longer had 2/3 more citations and twice the bibliography. But at a certain point your just having and intellectual wank over how much you have actually read! lol

So better to act like you can't see it. Which is fine by me obviously. Just noting something

With my mate Afua they could try to dismiss her with 'you went private school and Oxford what you complaining about' (black academics that say stuff they don't like are 'complaining' obviously.

They obviously can't run that one with me because vast majority of boys that grew up like me don't even get 5 exams...

So it's hard to properly oppose man while pretending to care about educational mobility or Shakespeare or Homer or History for that matter.

For a lot of these 'academics' and 'journos' to even debate/engage man as an equal with whom one happens to disagree is an admission of defeat in itself given where we both started.