Marxman: Straight Shooters
In the early ‘90s, as hip hop blazed new trails through Europe, a little-known Irish troupe put a new spin on the emerging form. Enter Marxman: socialist Irish republicans and renegade emcees.
The St. Ides of March
Hip-hop – like the nation from which it emerged – has long grappled with the push-and-pull of drug use, and while that’s recently meant pot, lean, molly and percs, it’s easy to forget about the moves that the alcohol industry made to capitalise on the culture.