Podcasts TV Pop Screen S2 Ep6: Pop Screen: The Great Hip Hop Hoax (with Andrew Young)

S2 Ep6: Pop Screen: The Great Hip Hop Hoax (with Andrew Young)

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.

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This week\'s Pop Screen is about Silibil & Brains - and if your reaction was "Who the hell are Silibil & Brains"?, allow Jeanie Finlay\'s fascinating 2013 documentary The Great Hip Hop Hoax to explain. Finding themselves shut out of the rap industry for their Dundee origins, they decided to pretend they were from California. Ridiculously enough, it worked, and they were groomed for stardom until, inevitably, things started to unravel.
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\\nThis week\'s guest host is Andrew Young from Behold! podcast, helping Graham to unpick the intricacies of a story that has so much to say about the music world\'s quest for marketable authenticity at the expense of actual truth, as well as a time capsule of the post-Eminem early 2000s pop landscape. It is also a story that is really, really dumb.
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