STRAIGHT OUTTA STRASBOURG: Eurocrats set for cringey rap battle to promote EU
The bizarre event will see MEPs team up with a professional rapper who will help them come up with cutting-edge freestyle rhymes.
Entitled Battle 4 Your Vote, it has been organised by the EU40 organisation, which bills itself as a “network of MEPs under 40” who are “shaping the future”.
Each rap outfit will tackle such weighty subjects as populism and other topics “relevant to Europe today”, with organisers confidently predicting the resulting spectacle will be the “coolest event ever”.
The website promoting the event boasts: “During the freestyle hip hop battle, teams compete by rapping with music on a given topic, effectively debating the other team, going back and forth.