The west Belfast rappers who thrive on outrage but strike a chord across the old divide. 🎤 .KNEECAPCEOL are set to headline FeileBelfast on Friday night.
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"It just turned into this music video, and we didn't really have any ideas for after," Mo Chara told BBC News NI. "It went down so well we thought we'd be mad not to do another song.""I think in Ireland for a long time, hip-hop was looking outwards... they were performing with American accents, but there's a big change now with people using their own accents and trying to be authentic and looking inwards," he said.
Their musical tastes range from Irish republican rebel tunes to rap, with American duo Dead Prez cited as a major influence. "It's actually much easier because there's twice as many sounds," Mo Chara added, explaining it provides a denser vocabulary and is reflective of how the Irish language is spoken by youths today.While the music comes easy for Kneecap, how do they deal with the backlash?
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