Kadeen Brown was listening to \u201cCan You See the Pride in the Panther\u201d by by Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, when she started thinking about her father. Not Tupac, whose poem inspired the track. Not the Black Panther Party, whose legacy runs through both versions. Her father. A first generation Jamaican Brit and Rastafarian\u2014who told her stories about the Britain he grew up in, which wasn\u2019t always welcoming. Yet what stayed with her wasn\u2019t the hardship itself, but the way he carried it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went through some horrible stuff in the UK,\u201d Brown says. \u201cBut despite that, he held his head up high and he just did his thing.\u201d She also thought of the people she\u2019d grown up alongside in Kilburn, north-west London, who were now becoming dentists, teachers, artists. She thought of the musicians she watched at grassroots jam nights around the city. \u201cI see them becoming maybe the next Mos Def, the next Tupac in the future,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to uplift their current, and have them in the story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kadeen Brown was listening to \u201cCan You See the Pride in the Panther\u201d by by Yasiin Bey, formerly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,878,60501,85,46,409,2081,9781,5087],"class_list":["post-557507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-identity","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-photography","tag-selects","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}