{"id":64053,"date":"2025-04-30T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64053\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:29:10","slug":"kneecap-are-not-the-story-dozens-of-artists-weigh-in-behind-under-fire-belfast-rappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64053\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kneecap are not the story\u2019: Dozens of artists weigh in behind under-fire Belfast rappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The band have faced days of scrutiny over \u201ckill your MP\u201d comments made at a previous show\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kneecap have courted controversy since their formation in 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/8520d35e-951d-4d97-85b0-65c637734db3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kneecap have courted controversy since their formation in 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thin Lizzy, veteran UK hip hop band Massive Attack and Belfast electronic duo Bicep were among dozens of artists who have weighed in to defend under-fire Belfast rappers Kneecap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The trio have faced days of scrutiny and condemnation after footage from a November 2023 concert appeared to show one member say: \u201cThe only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band have faced days of scrutiny over \u201ckill your MP\u201d comments made at a previous show Kneecap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,28538,1300,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-64053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kneecap","11":"tag-liam-tunney","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114429281218526420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}