"If it's a benefit or a charity event I'm DJing at, then I ease up on playing the homophobic ragga.
"I've had people coming up to me when I'm DJing and say, 'Do you know what that record is saying, blah blah blah?' I just think, 'You need to get out a bit more, mate.' It ain't bothering us." But then, it doesn't sound as if the crowds who turn up to hear him DJ are interested either. I don't know if he's on a mission for other people or for himself, you know what I mean?"īiggy C does not seem terribly interested in Outrage!'s accusations that by playing Vybz Kartel, he is promoting "murder music". He thinks that Peter Tatchell "means well", but should concentrate on getting the gay age of consent lowered rather than "going on about Jamaica or trying to arrest Robert Mugabe.
None of this would be surprising were it not for the fact that Biggy C is gay, and so were the predominantly black crowd dancing to Vybz Kartel. "That means 'big cock' in your language," he chuckles helpfully. He says there was a good turnout, and that the biggest tune of the night was a track by Vybz Kartel - one of the artists whose recent Mobo nomination so horrified Peter Tatchell's Outrage! organisation and Stonewall, and whose appearance on the bill of a London outdoor concert called Reggae in the Park ultimately led to the cancellation of the entire event. The day I meet him, he has just returned from a ragga event in Birmingham, complete with a dancing competition. He plays hip-hop, R&B and ragga, "or whatever they're calling it now, bashment or dancehall or whatever".