This Monday we’ll be voting for SoCo in the People’s Millions. If they win, Thornhill wins a new £50,000 arts centre giving Southampton a brilliant opportunity to involve more people in the making of music.
One area SoCo tries to have an influence is asking youngsters, who are inspired by the UK’s Grime scene, to write positive lyrics.
As good as they were at rhyming and flow, they find it hard not to fall into that scene’s stereotypical subjects of violence, guns and drugs. This is why SoCo should meet Shirley based MC and lyricist ‘LST’.
LST is a vocalist who thinks his approach is right: “I’m there to get into your consciousness and make you see that there is a right way and a wrong way and hopefully you pick the right way.”
This positive attitude inspired local film maker Andy Jones to create a mini documentary around LST which was recently shown at the Falstaff International Film Festival.
The film is named after the LST track ‘Cherish Life’ which was written following the tragic shooting London teenager Michael Dosunmu. “When I saw that I felt there’s got to be something I can do.”
It was not only the grief of the family that got to him but the nagging feeling that the negative messages in the UK’s grime scene needed a positive counter-point and LST was going to provide it.
He’s made a great start, on a long journey but, as his album title suggests, it’s time to “Change the Game”.
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