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Carl Latricio Brown (born 30 May 1999), known professionally as SR, [2] is a British rapper who went viral for his single "Welcome to Brixton" in 2020. [1] [3] His follow-up song, "Practice Makes Perfect", was named in the top 10 songs to come out of the United Kingdom by DJBooth in May 2021.
"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, originally released on their 1979 album London Calling. It was written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, South London. The song has a strong reggae influence, reflecting the culture of the area and the reggae gangster film The Harder They Come.
GAS Gang, also known more simply as GG or GAS, was a British street gang based in Brixton, South London that formed sometime in the late 2000s. The name carries various different meanings, such as Guns And Shanks, Gangsters Always Shoot, Grip And Shoot, and Grind And Stack.
It also samples the songs "The Guns of Brixton" by the Clash, the Once Upon a Time in the West theme by Ennio Morricone, and "Jam Hot" by Johnny Dynell. "Dub Be Good to Me" was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and also reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Exile on Coldharbour Lane is the debut album by Alabama 3, released on 11 November 1997 on One Little Indian and Geffen.The name and cover are references to Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones and Coldharbour Lane a major street in Brixton, South London best known for containing several after-hours clubs and not a few drug dealers. [2]
Live at Brixton Academy (released as Dido Live on Region 1 [1]) is a live album and DVD set by Dido, released in 2005. It was recorded over three nights in August 2004 at Brixton Academy in London during the Life for Rent tour. [2] The DVD release includes a bonus audio CD which contains twelve of the recorded tracks, in a slightly modified order.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
By 1980, Wheatle was living in a social services hostel in Brixton, and he participated [clarification needed] in the 1981 Brixton riots and their aftermath. While serving his resulting sentence, [ clarification needed ] he read authors such as Chester Himes , Richard Wright , C. L. R. James and John Steinbeck .