Louis Theroux says rap episode "the most personal" of Forbidden America
The journalist looks at Florida's rap scene in the next episode of Forbidden America.
Louis Theroux has said that his upcoming Forbidden America episode on rap is the "most personal" out of the three.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com and other press at a webinar for Forbidden America, the documentarian was asked which of the three films in the docuseries was his favourite.
"You know, I don't play favourites with the programme," he said. "I think they're all really strong."
"I think, in a funny way, the rap one is the most personal."
He went on to say that he thinks rap is often misunderstood as a genre of music.
"I think very often the comparison with either horror films or gangster films or action films is made and I think is, to an extent, quite valid – the idea that you know, in a music video, a rapper is acting out of a persona.
"A persona that may to a degree be based on who they really are. But, you know, the music gives expression to a lifestyle that is often troubled or compromised or high risk, right? But doesn't necessarily create that lifestyle."
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He continued: "If you banned rap, these communities would still exist and so the idea of blaming rap music for the social ills that it chronicles is in a weird way a case of shooting the messenger, in my view."
The ongoing series is a three-part exploration of how social media and the internet have affected the most controversial areas of American society, from the porn industry to the far-right.
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