The London rapper, Dave, won album of the year at the Brits, mere moments after he called Boris Johnson a “racist”.
The star took home the night’s main award for his provocative album Psychodrama. The album also won last year’s Mercury Prize.
The 21 year old is now the second act to win best album at the Brits and the Mercury Prize for the same record. The other was the Arctic Monkeys with their album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
In a newly-written verse added for his performance of the single Black, he called the government response to the Grenfell Tower fire and said: “The truth is our prime minister is a real racist.”
Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, said to BBC Breakfast: “I work with the prime minister, I know Boris Johnson very well, no way is he a racist, so I think that is a completely wrong comment and it’s the wrong assertion to make against our prime minister.”
The rapper also attacked tabloid coverage of Megan Markle and paid tribute to London Bridge terror attack victim Jack Merritt.
Dave also added a final verse to Black where he said: “Grenfell victims still need accommodation. And we still need support for the Windrush generation/Reparations for the time our people spent on plantations.”
Downing Street said it would not comment on Dave’s remarks.
