Rapper Riz Ahmed blasts Brexit Britain for ‘breaking up’ with him in new album with video portraying white racists executing an Asian family on a UK street
- Riz Ahmed’s album The Long Goodbye was released with complementary film
- In a statement about the pieces, he blasted the UK for the ‘breakup’ he suffered
- One song features a woman splitting up with him so she can take back control
Rapper Riz Ahmed has said his latest album is his ‘breakup’ with Brexit Britain after releasing The Long Goodbye on Friday.
The actor released a statement saying it represented a split with ‘your country’ and his record references the Vote Leave slogan ‘Take Back Control’.
In a song portraying a white woman who doesn’t want him anymore, he says: ‘I came home one day and she changed the locks/ Said she blamed me for lately now she’s feeling lost/ Now she’s taking back control and wants me to f*** off.’
The performer, who played Bodhi Rook in Star Wars: Rogue One, has also released an 11-minute short film to complement the album.
The album (pictured) chronicles what Riz Ahmed calls his breakup from Britain, with one track referencing the Vote Leave slogan ‘Take Back Control’
The star – also known as Riz MC – said in a statement: ‘The record is a breakup album — but with your country. So many of us feel like we’re being dumped by the place we call home, a home that we built.
‘This album takes you on the journey of this breakup; through the stages of denial, anger, acceptance, and finally self-love to counter the hate.’
His film, directed by Aneil Karia, shows white people watching on as a racist gang executes a British family of South Asian descent in the street.
On Instagram on Friday, Ahmed, who is of Pakistani descent, said: ‘My country’s broken up with me. We had our ups, but now it’s broken down. Let me break down the whole f******.’
Riz MC (pictured) has released a short film showing white racists executing British Asians in the street while other white people watch on
He previously told the BBC That the bleak portrayal of the UK was inspired by the fact that ‘hate crime is spiking across the world’.
Figures compiled by the Home Office in October last year claimed that there were 103,379 hate crimes committed in 2018.
The Government said the record numbers cam after a 10 per cent rise on the year before. The UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016.
Douglas Murray, the author of The Strange Death of Europe, said at the time that the rise was due to changes in the way hate crime is recorded.
He said that incidents are recorded as hate crimes if the act in question is ‘perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by malice or ill-will towards a social group’ as opposed to whether or not there is hard evidence.