The Liverpool Times

U.K. Hip Hop with anti gun and knife culture lyrics

Here’s a good one to start off the music section. Not a Liverpool band, but maybe it might encourage a few here to do something with a microphone and some sampling software and an old keyboard or whatever.

“The UK might as well be called USA
Gun crime and knife culture are digging us graves
I wanna escape - this countries just riddled with hate
No ones safe and most kids are overweight
But wait, cos that’s the least of the problems today
Kids don’t play in parks - they use them for bait” Street Poets staying alive.

The above and below lyrics are from a song that speaks out against the gun and knife crime culture with some hard hitting and intelligent commentary. It’s UK Hip Hop, which is basically a mixture of rap and the UK house sound – sprinkled with just about every other genre of music. It’s a musical genre which has no hard and fast rules.

“When I was a young boy
The old man said to me
He said son when you grow up
I want you to be who you want to be
But now I’m all grown up dad
I’ve seen the world for me own eyes
I think it’s already hard enough
Just to be staying alive”

The song from the Street Poets is entitled ‘Staying Alive’ featuring Ollie Seager. It’s from the album or CD ‘Put your life on the tracks.’ You can buy the CD from the record company website, a link to which is provided if you read on.

An amusing album cover shows two lads lying down with their heads on a railway line. Sadly, for many young people in the UK, life is a bit like having your head on a railway line.

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From a printer at the Echo and Daily Post, Liverpool.

“After 130 odd years the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo will no longer be printed on Merseyside, for Merseyside, by Merseysiders.

The closure will come at a cost of 100 + printing jobs of Scouse workers.

50 jobs will go in November 2008 plus most of the titles the rest will go in November 2009 when the LIVERPOOL ECHO moves and gets printed in Oldham greater Manchester.

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