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Dave’s album Psychodrama gained the album of the 12 months prize
London rapper Dave gained album of the 12 months on the Brits, moments after calling the prime minister a “racist”.
The star took house the evening’s essential award for his provocative, private album Psychodrama, which additionally gained final 12 months’s Mercury Prize.
However it was his fiery efficiency of the one Black that stole the present.
In a newly-written verse, he referred to as out the federal government response to the Grenfell Tower hearth and mentioned: “The reality is our prime minister is an actual racist.”
Residence Secretary Priti Patel advised BBC Breakfast: “I do not know the way a lot [Dave] is aware of concerning the prime minister and whether or not he really has met the prime minister or is aware of the prime minister.
“I work with the prime minister, I do know Boris Johnson very effectively, no manner is he a racist, so I feel that could be a fully unsuitable remark and it is the unsuitable assertion to make in opposition to our prime minister.”
Downing Road mentioned it would not touch upon Dave’s remarks.
The rapper additionally attacked tabloid protection of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and paid tribute to London Bridge terror assault sufferer Jack Merritt.
Two years after Stormzy demanded “the place’s the cash for Grenfell?” on the Brits stage, Dave up to date the lyric, saying: “Grenfell victims nonetheless want lodging.”
He added: “And we nonetheless want assist for the Windrush era/Reparations for the time our folks spent on plantations.”
The lyrics had been added as a ultimate verse to Black, which talks about perceptions and experiences of black folks within the UK.
The 21-year-old rapper is now solely the second act to win finest album on the Brits and the Mercury Prize for a similar file.
The primary was the Arctic Monkeys for his or her debut, No matter Individuals Say I Am, That is What I am Not.
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This 12 months’s ceremony attracted a mean of three.eight million viewers to ITV – the bottom ever for the Brit Awards.
Nonetheless, a number of of the performances have been watched extensively on-line, with Billie Eilish’s first stay efficiency of the James Bond theme clocking 1.eight million views on YouTube alone by Wednesday lunchtime.
Eilish carried out No Time To Die backed by a 22-piece orchestra, Smiths legend Johnny Marr and composer Hans Zimmer.
Lewis Capaldi was the principle winner, taking house two prizes – finest new artist and finest single, for his breakout hit Somebody You Beloved.
“Opposite to fashionable perception, folks suppose this track is about my ex girlfriend, who now you can see each evening on Love Island,” mentioned the star. “However it’s really about my grandmother who sadly handed away just a few years in the past.
“I hope to God ITV do not contact her to be on a actuality courting present.”
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Billie Eilish gained finest worldwide feminine and premiered her new Bond theme track
Mabel gained finest feminine artist and was congratulated by her mom, Neneh Cherry, who took house two Brits precisely 30 years in the past.
Eilish choked again tears as she accepted the award for finest worldwide feminine, having been overwhelmed by the viewers’s response to her efficiency minutes earlier.
“I felt very hated lately,” mentioned the 18-year-old, who had earlier told the BBC she had stopped studying feedback on social media.
“And when so was on the stage and I noticed all you guys smiling at me… It genuinely made me need to cry. And I need to cry proper now, so thanks.”
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Stormzy gained finest male artist after which closed the present with a medley
Finest male artist went to Stormzy, who carried out a shocking medley of songs from his second album, Heavy Is The Head, accompanied by greater than 100 performers, together with a gospel choir, a saxophonist and Nigerian artist Burna Boy.
The evening opened with a quick tribute to Love Island host Caroline Flack, previously a backstage presenter on the Brits, following her dying on Saturday.
“She was a sort and vibrant particular person with an infectious sense of enjoyable,” ceremony host Jack Whitehall mentioned.
“I am positive I communicate for everybody right here once I say our ideas are along with her family and friends.”
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