Confucius MC: ‘I’ve seen illiterate kids learn raps in 10 minutes’

The south London MC on using beats and rhymes to get children interested in words, and the problem with gentrification in his native PeckhamConfucius MC is a rapper from south London. He has been a close friend of mine since we were teenagers, and has had a huge influence on my life, my character and my rhyme-style. For the past 14 years he has been working at a primary school in Lambeth teaching the art of lyricism to year 5 and 6 children, as well as writing and teaching bespoke curriculum-bas...

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