Ten-year-old Jess Baker (not her real name) stands at a microphone in a tiny recording studio behind a hip-hop clothing shop near Hull city center. “My brain is all messed up,” she raps, “Music is my passion, it makes me not give up”.
How hip-hop is helping young people in Hull find their voice
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