Dave Calls Boris Johnson ‘Racist’ And Addresses Meghan Markle During BRITs Performance

Rapper Dave launched an incredible defence of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex at the BRIT Awards, during a rousing performance in which he also described Prime Minister Boris Johnson as 'real racist.'

Singing his hit song Black, from the album Psychodrama, Dave added some additional material, which addressed the treatment of Meghan at the hands of the British public and media. The quote included 'how the news treats Kate versus how they treated Meghan.'

Host Jack Whitehall called the performance 'powerful and provocative'.

Dave, who also stars in Netflix series Top Boy, produced by Drake, received an impressive four nominations at the ceremony, drawing with Lewis Capaldi for the most nods. He has previously discussed the song and its lyrics,

'That track is my experience,' Dave has told The Guardian. 'Me being south London, black, Nigerian, that’s what I’m mainly basing it on. It’s a good representation of what I associate with and everything that I think, but I don’t think that it’s universal for the whole black experience, because there’s too many different races and dynamics within the race of black. For a black person who’s Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that’s a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone’s experience is different. Especially black women and black men.'

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