Riz MC - Sour Times

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New Riz Music Video for 'Sour Times', created by a montage of clips of other people mouthing the lyrics. Collaborators include rappers Plan B, Scroobius Pip, actors Jim Sturgess, Tom Hardy, and musician Nitin Sawhney.

Riz always seems to find creative ways to express himself and push his message forward, and that's what Hip Hop basically is, right?

Love how he only features himself a few times and the shots of the people when they're in thought.

18th July @ Southbank Centre - Riz MC presents United Underground rooftop party, massive lineup, music + activism.

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• Riz
• MC
• Hip
• Hop
• UK
• Rap
• Iraq
• war
• islam
• 7/7
• religion
• fatwa
• bombings
• july
• london
• guantanamo
• bay
• al
• qaeda
• yt:crop=16:9
• 'Plan
• B'
• Nitin
• Sawhney
• Jim
• Sturgess
• Scroobius
• Pip
• Tom
• Hardy

[azjaka123]

At 2 :15 is one of the actors from Inception called Tom Hardy.

[MrFuckoffdipshit]

Hey hip hop, conscious rap just called, and said it now lives in London and speaks Received Pronunciation. Tight and real, RizMC.  Keep it up!

[fragman08]

@0xenStr Nope, but there is a fatwah for his MURDER by ayatolla khomenie and his japanese translator has been murdered. All on orders of an islamic scholar who is widely regarded by even "moderate" muslims. I wasn't saying he was on death row, I was just saying it's the equivalent- at some point some religious fucking lunatic will murder him. It's a question of time.

[0xenStr]

@fragman08 Sorry many Islamic countries*

[0xenStr]

@fragman08 I know the book shouldn't have been banned, but he hasn't even been put on death row, or sent to prison. All that has happened is that the book has been banned in many countries.

[fragman08]

@0xenStr I know that, but the statement still stands. If someone was sent to death row, and someone else said "he doesn't deserve death", that makes sense, you dig?

[0xenStr]

@fragman08 He isn't dead...

[fragman08]

Islam still has problems though... What did Salman Rushdie do to deserve death? He only wrote a book. Freedom of speech should be for all, whether or not it offender muslims, christians or jews.

[Richard19061975]

I think it's a huge fucking irony that before Riz's awesome vid there's a video game advertisement glorifying American aggression. Someday, my country's going to learn its lesson.

[jurassicmarc]

Some really thought provoking words, clearly these views are very personal to Riz and it comes across as both intelligent and authentic. The music also defines the song for me and is sombre and it just fits perfectly. The next person who slags off Hip Hop culture as shallow I will point in this direction.

[JJTTOMMJJ]

@simmer1234 exactly what i did :/

[bill88rfc]

i cant work out if he is condemning terrorism or making excuses for it. or is it both?