That’s right, it’s the return of the fifth most popular thing to ever grace the Vice music blog – the column in which famous people review new music. Today we have London Mayor (and Oxford classics graduate) Boris Johnson tackling the latest LP by Cambridge UK hip-hop outfit Delegates of Culture. (Yes, we know this album is a bit old but we gave Mayor Johnson the CD about six months ago but he’s been too busy planning an underground airline to replace the Jubilee Line to send us a review until now.)
Firstly, I think it’s wholly inappropriate that these dole-queue louts are calling themselves “delegates of culture”. They clearly know nothing about Byzantine architecture, Cicero’s letters, Virgil’s poems or a good game of rugby, so for them to appoint themselves as representatives of refinement and erudition and good taste is quite frankly ridiculous. What do these dolts know about class? In fact what does anyone from Cambridge know about class? Nothing, that’s what. I think a far more fitting name for this gaggle of plebs would be “Three Podgy Lumpenproletariat Ruffians”. Moreover, the trio of chaps on the cover of this offensive artefact parading as a popular music disc are uglier than the three heads of Cerberus. Look at them, smoking their cheap cigars and looking like bulbous gerbils. I bet if someone shoved a Cohiba Behike under their flaccid nostrils they would slice it open with a kitchen knife and replace its sweet intestines with pungent hemp.
I noticed one of the numbers on this compact disc is called “Hip-Hop Side Effect” – but it fails to mention many of the side effects that I associate with this filth. Crime, teenage pregnancy, hoodies, chewing gum stuck to the pavement, jewellery on men – all direct effects of “hip-hop”.
I’ll tell you something else: these morons aren’t “Bad Guys”. Their tales of cannabis-induced stupor in the slums of Cambridge are nothing compared to the shenanigans I was a part of in my days at Balliol. My nights on the town with the Bullingdon Club are now part of local folklore (let’s just say I was more than happy to debag anyone who would get in our path!). Further, if any of these louts would like to challenge me to a linguistics battle, I would gladly crush them. It would be like Odysseus’s righteous yet brutal slaying of the repugnant suitors of his sweet Penelope. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to expel these insolent pups and their kind from this land, just like the Lapiths cast out the filthy sub-human Centaurs from Thessaly.
As told to JOHN MCDONNELL












Reader Comments
October 14th, 2009
10:48 am
More Vice bullshit, you expect us to believe this.
October 14th, 2009
11:02 am
get him on the dos and donts
October 14th, 2009
11:08 am
Scum, do you really think vice are hoping to convince us it’s Boris writing this?
Of course it’s not him you imbecile
October 14th, 2009
11:17 am
ha! funny as fuck! :)
October 15th, 2009
6:12 am
yeah scumnation, you got em! expose the lies! boris johnson DOESN’T really work for vice magazine. what a bunch of liar pants they are.
October 15th, 2009
9:45 am
what, you mean the mayor of london doesn’t have time to review old cds? man, what’s wrong with the world?
October 15th, 2009
10:49 am
So is it not actually Boris who’s written all of this? Damn! It would’ve made it much more fun.. oh well.
October 15th, 2009
11:54 am
I think he’d probably say ‘rugger’ rather than ‘rugby’. Just saying.
October 15th, 2009
1:15 pm
Heh, I only opened this to leave a comment that you were dicks for actually letting BJ write a word for your blog….
Now I feel stupid. It’s funny though.
October 16th, 2009
8:02 am
I am fucking boring. so i am posting a comment here.
October 18th, 2009
3:37 am
I LOVE BORIS ‘BOJO’ JOHNSON!!
i think hes brilliant… whether he wrote this or not!!
“give that man a coconut!!” xx