FRENCH RAPPERS FACING LEGAL ACTION
Two French rappers could face legal action after it was revealed they used money from a council grant to finance a music video accused of glorifying violence against police officers.
TIPIKAL and K-PSTER’s track COLT 44 features gun and drug imagery and scenes shot during a violent clash between police and rioters in Nantes last year (05).
The song’s lyrics include, "Fill the police HQ with mustard gas, do it Russian-style." Nantes mayor JEAN-MARC AYRAULT revealed on Friday (01SEP06) that Tipikal and K-Pster had been the beneficiaries of a 700 euro ($900/£500) subsidy to produce a video dealing with "the malaise in the suburbs", following the riots which wreaked havoc across France.
French police union Alliance says the video is "an incitement to urban warfare, to hatred of the police, to terrorism and rape".
Nantes’ state-appointed governor has requested local judicial authorities to determine if legal action can be brought against the two men.
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interesting enough, there’s no discussion over the lyrics themselves.. I’d say that inciting violence etc is only one perspective to the song..
that’s why I’m calling out to everybody who speak good french as well as english (unfortunately my language skills consist of english, scandinavian languages and germany). I’d like to have a translation of the song as whole, and then continue the discussion over what is incitement, what is untruthful and what is just true in this song.
Comment by esa — October 8, 2006 @ 11:05 pm