British rapper Giggs has castigated the Sun over a front page story that focuses on UK drill music and the rap DJ Tim Westwood.
The story quotes critics of Westwood, who accuse him of profiting from the UK drill scene while violent incidents occur between some of its rappers. This week, the drill rapper Siddique Kamara, AKA Incognito, was stabbed to death in Camberwell, south London. Kamara had featured on Westwood’s video channel with his drill group Moscow17.
Referring to the story, Giggs wrote on Instagram: “It’s strange how when our music gets popular we make your shit newspaper. Black yutes were dying weekly and barely made the south London press, and what a surprise that it’s not about a kid losing his life, it’s just some bullshit story you made up about profit and Westwood. Look how the story starts “Former Radio 1…” not “Young kid loses his life…” You lot are done. Your paper is so dead you’ve had to resort to writing about people you don’t care about. I give you lot another 2 years tops before you go bankrupt.” He signed off by calling the Sun “dirty filthy bastards”.
Giggs is one of the UK’s most successful rappers. His last two albums both reached No 2 in the UK album charts, and he has worked with major US stars such as Drake and 2 Chainz. He was jailed in 2003 on a gun possession charge and faced hostility from the Metropolitan police’s Operation Trident gun crime team, which attempted to dissuade the label XL from signing him.
In May, he took Piers Morgan to task over comments the television presenter made about stop and search policies. “Have you yourself ever experienced the traumas or violations, and a lot of the time abuse of power of ‘being stopped and search because you look like …’” he wrote on Instagram. “You never see cunts like Piers Morgan celebrating ‘young black youths that look like they are in gangs’ when we are successful, or break records, or win awards, and so on. But as soon as there is something negative happening and some controversy for you to talk about, you wanna talk about us, or say what you think should be happening.”
