“Speakers boom out a bass line that reverberates through the heart and throat and tickles the eardrums. Former gang members from New York’s hardest ghettoes rap ‘we wanna rock wit’ you, that’s all we wanna do’. But listen closely and the lyrics are far from a stereotypical rap homage to all things bling. The rappers are missionaries aiming to draw in the gangs of east London’s deprived estates.” The use of public funds to support them has attracted controversy, as have homophobic postings on the website of the group’s leader.