Pa Salieu has been announced as the winner of the BBC Sound Of 2021 poll. The Coventry rapper says that he was spurred on to make music after surviving being shot in the head in 2019.Speaking to the BBC, he says he hopes to give a voice to friends and others who have died, changing public and political perceptions of victims of street violence. “If I actually died [when I was shot], in their eyes I would be a criminal”, he says. “‘Gang-related’. ‘Drive-by shooting’.
Trust me, the whole perception would be different right now. You would have never heard of me. If you did hear of me, [it would be], ‘That’s that kid that died’. ‘Gun crime’. ‘These foolish youths’.
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