Riz Ahmed

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1,209 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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Fresh Air · Riz Ahmed is chasing acceptance in 'Bait' · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

I love the specificity of London's musical subculture.

And the UK, I think, does that so well, you know, because of the clash and the mix of different cultures and different sounds and influences.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I was exposed to it and then I started doing it myself, both at raves and on pirate radio.

And I remember when I went to Oxford and I got in there, I felt like I'd lost something.

I'd lost this thing that I loved.

And so I was eager to kind of keep it going.

And that's when I started doing it.

promoting my own club nights.

And it became a really invaluable place where every week without fail, I could hone my craft.

I could try out new lyrics.

I could gain confidence as a performer.

And I think it helped me not just as an MC, but as an actor.

I suppose 9-11 Blues is my first rap track.

It's kind of deliberately silly, but also deliberately, you know, it's a satire, really.

It's a provocative kind of satire.

And it takes the shape of an almost like a nursery rhyme or school kids jingle.

I wrote that when I was 23, I think, 22.

You know, I just felt like I was surrounded by this

circus of fear mongering and of paranoia and mistrust and the war on terror and being a young Muslim post 9-11.

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