![]() ![]() This week, Get Rich or Die Tryin', an album by ex-crack dealer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, sold 872,000 copies in the US. Which opprobrious youth cult will catch his eagle eye next? Teddy boys? Flappers?īut Howell's blushes may yet be spared. Like a boozy dad on a wedding reception dancefloor, he thinks he's showing the youngsters a thing or two, but he's hopelessly out of time. ![]() With that in mind, his remarks seem less reprehensible than rather quaint. ![]() Precisely what gangsta rap is Howells talking about? Leaving aside the dismal posturing of the So Solid Crew, there hasn't been a gangsta-rap hit in Britain since the mid-1990s. But one glaring question was left unasked. In its wake, Howells was decried as everything from a white supremacist to a Simon and Garfunkel fan. None of the many attacks Kim Howells has launched during his brief period as culture minister has attracted quite as much indignation as his recent lambasting of gangsta rap.
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