'I want to make modern African music'

Congolese-born Belgian rapper Baloji creates a spellbinding mix of old and new sounds with bitingly modern lyrics. They call him 'the sorcerer'…Cowering under a statue called Belgium Bringing Civilisation to The Congo, one of four golden effigies in the entrance hall of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, there's a sculpture depicting a miserable African native, naked and blatantly "savage" in the estimation of its colonial creator. For a moment before our interview...

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