He is now known as much for his political analysis as for his music, and, unsurprisingly, his new book, Natives, is therefore long awaited. Whatever that means.”Īny of the million-plus people who have since followed Akala – real name Kingslee Daley – know that the search has taken him into the realm of serious scholarship. “Apparently,” it continues, “I’m second-generation black Caribbean.
Like so much of his work, the song Find No Enemy blends his life in the struggle of poverty, race, class and violence, with the search for answers.
“First time I saw knives penetrate flesh, it was meat cleavers to the back of the head,” the north London rapper remembers of his childhood. I n 2010, UK rap artist Akala dropped the album DoubleThink, and with it, some unforgettable words.
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