Germany-based music company BMG — distributor of releases by controversial rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang, whose lyrics many consider to be anti-semitic — today announced a campaign against “a growing wave of anti-Semitism in Germany” with a new campaign focused on schools. The company is pledging 100,000 Euros to the campaign, in which it will “partner with expert organisations in the field to tackle the problem in schools, particularly in the country’s capital, Berlin,” according to a press release.
The German music industry has received a firestorm of criticism after the duo won the country’s Echo Award last week for having the top-selling album of 2017; the awards ceremony took place on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The album in question, “Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3” includes lyrics in which the rappers say their muscles are “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners’” and “I’m doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov.” The album, which has sold...
The German music industry has received a firestorm of criticism after the duo won the country’s Echo Award last week for having the top-selling album of 2017; the awards ceremony took place on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The album in question, “Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3” includes lyrics in which the rappers say their muscles are “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners’” and “I’m doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov.” The album, which has sold...
- 4/19/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
German rap duo Kollegah and Farid Bang, whose songs include lyrics that many consider anti-Semitic, are at the center of a rapidly widening uproar that has drawn in a wide array of commenters after the group won the country’s Echo Award last week for having the top-selling album of 2017, according to reports in The Guardian and Music Business Worldwide. The duo, who deny they are anti-Semitic, won the award on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The duo’s win was roundly criticized on the Echo Awards stage by Campino, lead singer of veteran German punk band Die Toten Hosen, who received a standing ovation.
The album in question, “Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3” includes lyrics in which the rappers say their muscles are “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners’” and “I’m doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov.” The album, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in a market that is still largely based on physical sales,...
The duo’s win was roundly criticized on the Echo Awards stage by Campino, lead singer of veteran German punk band Die Toten Hosen, who received a standing ovation.
The album in question, “Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3” includes lyrics in which the rappers say their muscles are “more defined than Auschwitz prisoners’” and “I’m doing another Holocaust, coming with a Molotov.” The album, which has sold more than 200,000 copies in a market that is still largely based on physical sales,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
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