Reading Time: 8 minutes Compton, Los Angeles, is a neighbourhood stigmatised as a black ghetto, supposedly afflicted by gang violence and drugs, which has become globally notorious. Strikingly, that notoriety has partly been fuelled by the art of black rap artists. Rap artist Kendrick Lamar comes from Compton, but he does not glamorise gang culture. Khalil Joseph’s ‘Double […]
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