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Song Exploder

Join Conscious Route, Queen of Harps and Dave Hook as they lift the lid on their lyrics, telling the backstory to their songs and explaining their process.

Song Exploder

About Song Exploder

Understand the craft behind the bars in this panel with some of Scotland's foremost rap and hip hop artists. Join Bemz, Queen of Harps and Dave Hook as they lift the lid on their lyrics, telling the backstory to their songs and explaining how they seamlessly meld wordplay with rhyme, timing with cadence.

This panel will be chaired by Arusa Qureshi, author of Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop. In association with The Skinny.

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