Dublin: the new capital of hip hop

Set in Ballymun and Finglas, Broken Song is a documentary film about the local hip-hop scene.

Bantry-born filmmaker, Claire Dix, confesses she was sceptical of Irish hip-hop, but when she met some of the scene’s leading lights, she knew there was a compelling story to be told.

“I met GI and Costello, in a room in the Record Centre in Ballymun, and they just rapped one of their pieces, called ‘Flawless’,” she says. “And there was just something about it, just the honesty and the lyricism and the power in the words, and in the way they delivered it.