[52] He has also spoken at the Oxford Union. Akala wrote and performed a minute-long rap containing 27 different Shakespeare play titles in under half an hour. [9] Daley saw a friend attacked by a meat cleaver to the skull when he was 12, and carried a knife himself for a period[10] He went on to achieve ten GCSEs and took maths a year early. He wrote in The Guardian: "So why will I be voting now? In 2007 Akala followed up his breakthrough album with his Freedom Lasso album, containing the “Comedy Tragedy History” track. [20], Daley's third studio album, DoubleThink, was released in 2010, and holds a strong theme of George Orwell's popular novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Daley was born in Crawley, West Sussex,[1] in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father who separated before he was born and grew up with his mother "in the clichéd, single-parent working-class family,"[4] in Kentish Town, north London. [9] Daley did not attend university, but has said he often envies those who do. "[45], In November 2019, along with 34 other musicians, Akala signed a letter endorsing Corbyn in the 2019 UK general election with a call to end austerity. [3]. [43], In June 2016, Akala supported Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn after mass resignations from his cabinet and a leadership challenge. [5][6] He remembers the day he realised that his mum was white,[7] and was embarrassed by her whiteness. [53] He has also been involved in campaigns to "decolonise" the curriculum including giving a talk at the University of Leicester.
[38] In August 2012, he performed at the Outlook Festival[39] and in November 2012, he performed at the second edition of NH7 Weekender music festival in Pune, India. [10] When accepting honorary degrees, he has said he "would like to thank the entire Caribbean pan-African community that helped me through school and encouraged an intellectual curiosity and self development from a very young age. He chose the stagename Akala because it is a Buddhist term for “Immovable”, and started releasing music in 2003 from his own independent music label, Illa State Records. [17], Daley appeared for a live session on BBC Radio 1Xtra where he was challenged to come up with a rap containing as many Shakespeare play titles as he could manage, he wrote and performed a minute-long rap containing 27 different Shakespeare play titles in under half an hour and later recorded these lyrics in the studio and turned it into the single "Comedy Tragedy History".
[37] He was present at the "One Love:No Borders Hip Hop" event held in Birmingham, England in April 2011, with Iron Braydz from London, Lowkey, Logic and other up-and-coming UK artists. [9] His mum enrolled him in a pan-African Saturday school, about which he states "I benefited massively from a specifically black community-led self-education tradition that we don't talk about very much because it doesn't fit with the image [of black families]". Kingslee James Daley, better known by the stage name Akala, is an English rapper, poet and academic. [12], Daley got his stage name from Acala, a Buddhist term for "immovable",[13] and started releasing music in 2003 from his own independent music label, Illa State Records. [23][24] Daley appeared on Charlie Sloth's show on Radio 1Xtra on 18 July 2011, performing "Fire in the Booth", and after the great reception it received he returned again in May 2012 and provided "Part 2". In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards. "[44], In May 2017, he endorsed Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election. At the same time, Daley highlights what he believes are shared problems faced by African communities worldwide in what he describes as a global system of imperialism. It's not that I am naïve enough to believe that one man (who is, of course, powerless without the people that support him) can fundamentally alter the nature of British politics, or that I think that if Labour wins that the UK will suddenly reflect his personal political convictions, or even that I believe that the prime minister actually runs the country. He tweeted: "The way these dickhead Labour MP's are snaking @jeremycorbyn eediat ting. #homereefplg. He explains his success as the absurd and unexpected consequence of an unequal system that allows the rise of a few while leaving behind the many, no matter how brilliant they are. Additionally in 2006, a mixtape entitled A Little Darker was released under the name “Illa State”, featuring Akala and his sister Ms. Dynamite, as well as cameo appearances by many other artists.
[16] Additionally in 2006, a mixtape, A Little Darker, was released under the name "Illa State", featuring Akala and his sister, Ms. Dynamite, as well as cameo appearances by many other artists.
Kingslee James Daley (born 1 December 1983), better known by the stage name Akala, is an English rapper and poet. This proved to be his breakthrough album, containing the single "Shakespeare" (a reference to his self-proclaimed title "The Black Shakespeare") which made the BBC Radio 1 playlist.
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