Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics

Hip-hop stars from home and abroad to play to 100,000 of east London's forgotten youth audience at Hackney MarshesThe open spaces of Hackney Marshes normally play host to 82 full-sized football pitches and innumerable Sunday league kickabouts. Club scouts roam the fields, theoretically incognito.This weekend, the shouts and referees' whistles have been replaced by the sound of reverberating bass, as a Premier League of urban pop talent – the likes of Jay-Z and Rihanna – sets up camp along ea...

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