Professor Green’s education

Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, has written on his new album about his father’s suicide. Members of Green’s family are not pleased. The outspoken rapper was criticised for condemning the London rioters, but as the victim of a near-fatal assault, he felt obliged to comment, says Ed Power.

AS London burned in late autumn, Stephen Manderson — aka chart-topping British rapper Professor Green — went on Twitter and spoke his mind. The blow-back was immediate. Sitting at his computer, he felt he’d “been castrated.”

“My question was ‘why did people think they were justified for doing what they were doing?’ And I got smacked down for even asking it. Everyone was jumping down my throat. It was unbelievable — just incredible,” he says.