Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry. Gavin Bain was one half of Silibil N’ Brains, a Californian rap duo on the cusp of greatness. But there was a problem - the story of these hip hop stars was fake. Gavin’s never even been to America.

Film clips: The Mask/Chuck Russell/ New Line Cinema and Dark Horse Entertainment. The Secret of My Success/Herbert Ross/Rastar Beetlejuice/Tim Burton/The Geffen Company

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Louise Morris

Transcript

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:33.5	Don't look down.
0:34.9	Don't look through the curtain.
0:40.3	I guess when you look through the curtain, there's 5,000 people
0:43.3	and all the people from the back are crawling over the top of heads.
0:46.3	It's just absolute chaos.
0:48.3	The music is so loud.
0:50.3	Violent and visceral, you know.
0:53.3	But at the same time, all I'm feeling is this weird feeling of deja vu.
1:01.7	Bill just jumps out.
1:05.1	Because he's like a kid in a toy story.
1:07.3	He's like, ready to go.
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