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Feb
20
When I was a teenager,” says Loefah, “pirate radio and white labels were everything, and as you got more and more into it, you began to understand the culture. Then when I went to the jungle raves, you’d become a part of this community, meeting the people you’d heard shout outs to on the radio, and you’d get something from it that’s impossible to explain unless you were there but that was powerful and wasn’t controlled by any authorities. It might sound elitist, but it was the opposite: anyone could be a part of it; they just had to make the effort to find out and understand it.