Ryan Babel's Rap Career Is Embarrassing, But Not Like This

There are a lot of reasons to read Daniel Taylor's profile of Ryan Babel in the Guardian: the look inside Amsterdam's crime-ridden Bijlmermeer, the subtle evocation of Babel's uneasy marriage of gentleness and unpredictability. But anyone who's seen the videos of Babel rapping that have circulated online will probably want to take this passage with [.