For a decade now, Ben Coyle-Larner has been considered the easy-going nice guy of the British rap scene. And the London prodigy does have a certain laid-back attitude, which occasionally comes through in his calm eloquence or brilliant beats between jazz, boom bap and turntablism - Madlib sends his regards. His last album “Not Waving, But Drowning” (2019) in particular has become a direct neo-classic of British hip-hop that lacks absolutely nothing. Production, lyrics, flow, delivery - as Loyle Carner, the man knows his craft inside out and also understands the socio-cultural creative power that lies in this music.

Skip right to your favorite song in the set:
Yesterday 00:10
You Don't Know 2:52
Georgetown 6:35
Ice Water 9:06
Angel 12:10
Damselfly 15:37
Florence 19:00
Nobody Knows 21:29
Looking Back 26:03
Still 29:40
Loose Ends 33:04
Ottolenghi 38:30
Ain't Nothing Changed 41:45
Hate 44:55
NO CD 49:05
(Poem) 54:07

Which is why, on this year’s “Hugo” (2022), he switches from summery conscious rap to an angry denouncer of what is the slowly but surely crumbling status quo in the UK. Racism, issues of distribution of wealth, the eroding welfare state, the moronic political antics of the Johnson government and his relationship with his own father are just a few of the red hot issues he gilds in immaculate bars on tracks like “Hate” and “Georgetown”. The times are calling for it and Carner delivers.

A legend in the making, playing the Opening Concert at Reeperbahn Festival.

Reeperbahn Festival 2022 took place from Sept 21 to Sept 24 in Hamburg.

Reeperbahn Festival is the biggest club festival in Europe and the largest European platform for international pop culture and the music industry. Since 2006, for four days each September the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany has become the center of the international music world and a sustainable interface between artists, the public, industry representatives and society. The Conference program is aimed at professional visitors from all segments of the music industry from around the world.

The Reeperbahn Festival takes place under the sign of togetherness - racism, sexism, homophobia and exclusion have no place with us.

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