Rappers Against Racism Ft. Fade 2 Black - Streets Of London (2001)

What this video is

Rappers Against Racism was a German hip-hop collective founded in 1998 in Kaiserslautern, initiated by rapper Joe Thompson of Down Low and Ronald Bähr of K-Town Records, with the explicit goal of uniting diverse European hip-hop artists to address racism and racial discrimination. The collective's variable membership included artists such as La Mazz, Trooper Da Don, Jay Supreme, and the Dungeon Mastaz. 'Streets of…

Why it matters

Represents the European conscious hip-hop charity-single tradition of the late 1990s–early 2000s: multi-artist activist collective covering a canonical folk protest song (Ralph McTell's 1969 'Streets of London') as hip-hop, a cross-genre format that bridges European folk humanism with…