The ‘Henry Plan’ is working…sort of…the BBC has breached the entrenched racism of some of its programming, challenging the stereotypical presumptions and attitudes that have plagued the BBC and that have resulted in the ‘hideous blackness’ of 1Xtra music station……
Ed Sheeran, the most influential man in black and urban music: BBC faces ridicule after singer tops poll for 1Xtra station
A BBC power list has named white singer Ed Sheeran as the most important act in black and urban music.
The 1XtraPowerList – which has been called the ‘saddest list in history’ by one black artist – put 23-year-old Sheeran in the top spot, while another two white acts were placed in the top four.
The highest-placed black artist in the list – which was billed by the BBC as showcasing ‘the most important UK artists in the black and urban music scene’ – was rapper Tinie Tempah.
Oddly at least one black artist isn’t impressed by this diversity…..
Rapper Wiley, who was placed 16th out of 20 on the list, tweeted afterwards that the list showed black artists in England were getting ‘bumped’.
He said: ‘We have been bumped basically. Not taking anything away from ed… he is sick. But black artist in england we are getting bumped. (sic)’
He added…‘The UK had ‘an issue with racism that we are unwilling to address’.
He said that was reflected in black British culture in general but also in negative attitudes towards black British music.
Hmmm…that’ll be why the BBC has a music station, 1Xtra, the Black music station, based upon the skin colour of the musicians….never mind the ‘Asian Network’……aren’t people of Asian descent ‘British’ then just because they’ve got brown skin?
The BBC is very confused about race.
What is that prat going on about? Perhaps he was voted 16th because no-one likes his crap music… Typical of many blacks like Lenny Henry, who play the race card when their career is going down the pan. These dicks look for racism where none exists. Perhaps if they learned to play guitar like B.B. King or the trumpet like Miles Davis they’d sell records. Instead they keep on producing derivative rap crap full of videos with them trying to act hard. Personally, I think young people are becoming more intelligent and discerning and are fed up with ‘ganstas’…. INNIT!
“He added…‘The UK had ‘an issue with racism that we are unwilling to address’.”
In other words “my skin colour should trump any music ability”
This is pure Fascism!
I haven’t been so outraged since Mick Hucknall won the Outstanding Achievement award at the 1998 MOBOs!
“We have been bumped basically. Not taking anything away from ed…he is sick. But black artist in England we are getting bumped.”
Ah, the language of Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton. To hear my mother tongue used so eloquently has brought tears to my eyes.
” Bumped ” from the Urban Dictionary
”Word used as a descriptive for being stiched-up in any particular sale or transaction. Commonly heard on the streets and housing estates of South London, UK following a drugs deal.”
”Damn! I paid for 14 ounces of weed, and I got given 10. I got bumped! ”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bumped
Nah, it just means you ain’t got no brains, bro.
Getting ‘bumped’ simply means being complete unable to make any kind of music that anybody with half a brain wants to listen to.
Oh, and I was listening to, and enjoying, music by black musicians long before Wiley, whoever he might be, was probably born and music performed by black musicians who were playing probably before his grandparents were born.
Race isn’t the problem but a lack of talent certainly is.
All true, but just enjoy the irony: the BBC has spent years all but explicitly stating that any complaints of racism – no matter how bonkers – are automatically true. Ergo, by their own crazy rules, the BBC is raycist, init?
Meanwhile, the 50% of the country that votes with the right can’t even get one measly show in amongst the BBC’s United Colours of Liberalism.
”He added…‘The UK had ‘an issue with racism that we are unwilling to address’.”
Yes, we give them free housing, free education, free health care, free welfare benefits and we’re bewildered by their ingratitude.
Wiley may be pleased to know that I am white and fit the stereotype well as I cannot play any black music.
However I do play a mean version of “My old man’s a dustman” using spoons.
see, if most people were honest black,white or muslim they would prefer being with and mixing with people of there own racial or religious background,i have no black or muslim or polish mates even though i live in a city that is more or less a majority black and muslim city,am i racist for having no ethnic mates,hell no,i just prefer mixing with people of my own background who i have something in commen with,anyway,how many times have you heard black or muslim people go on about there black brothers and sisters to exclude any other racial groups as not part of there community,are they racist for being sectarian in there own outlook,maybe,but at the end of the day you cant force people who has a different set of values to live with each other because it just wont work as this trojan horse islamist plots all over england in are schools have proved,we are living in a divided and segrated nation like most parts of the world and i am afriad that is just the way it is whether we like it or not and that to me is just being honest.
You may like Jared Taylor.
Is this Ed Sheeran really Urban? Sounds like a ginger Suzanne Vega to me.
I never listen to the BBc radio stations any more because they never play the music I want to listen to although in the last week I’ve been out to see two bands playing live both with large turnouts and next to no possibility I would hear their material played on a BBc radio station. Of course they were both hideously white & with the ability and talent to play live without backing tapes and auto tune and other mixing desk trickery. More value for money for my licence fee money…Not!
This is so unintentionally funny Al.
Let me hit you with a revelation; you don’t have to be black or even urban to play black and urban music.
That’s another post biting the dust. Funny though.
You clearly don’t understand irony.
Alan doesn’t do irony.
‘that’ll be why the BBC has a music station, 1Xtra, the Black music station, based upon the skin colour of the musicians’
So why is Wiley complaining then?
Please keep up at the back.
Unusually for me, I have some sympathy for the blacks here.
The station is supposed to be about urban, black music.
Ed Sheeran is white and grew up in the countryside.
So he has no business being on that list, never mind top of it.