There is a dark-side to the music business that only occasionally surfaces for us to look at ..... one of these bits of dark matter is the gangsta praise side of the business.
In Italy, the home of organised crime, the singer Nello Liberti has been accused of inciting violence in his song 'Clan Chief', a catchy little number in which the murder of a Neopolitan Camorra "traitor" is praised.
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| Nello Liberti Uses The Neapolitan Slang Dialect |
In Italy, the home of organised crime, the singer Nello Liberti has been accused of inciting violence in his song 'Clan Chief', a catchy little number in which the murder of a Neopolitan Camorra "traitor" is praised.
The lyrics say of the Camorra boss, using the Neapolitan dialect - perché ci da rispetto e noi lo dobbiamo rispettare! ('because he gives us respect, and we have to respect him!'), and goes on "It's not true that he's evil". We have to respect
him," as in the video the hit-man pulls out his pistol. Prosecutors in Naples are now investigating Mr Nello Liberti.
In Chihuahua in northern Mexico, the popular band Los Tigres del Norte are banned because they sing some songs called 'narcocorridos', these are songs praising drug trafficking and the cartels. To be fair, in this case the band has only one or two such songs but there is a whole sub genre of Latin American music devoted to the gangs. Much like US rappers there is a culture of violence attached to it.
Of course in the US, the 'Gangsta Rap' has long been part of the Black Music scene. Here of course its all tied into racial politics, so that as recently as May 11, 2011 President Barrack Hussein Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited the black rap “artist” Lonnie Rashid Lynn, who goes by the stage names of 'Common' and 'Common Sense', as an honoured guest at the “Celebration of Poetry” event at the White House. Nothing controversial about that except that he is best known for a rap song titled “Song for Assata”. A song of praise for a black woman known as Assata Shakur (b. Joanne Chesimard), who is an escaped convicted murderer who was serving 'Life plus 26 to 30 years' for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973.
But of course there's nothing new under the sun .... as long ago as 1992 rapper 'Ice-T' wrote a song called "Cop Killers", which glorified the killing of police officers. He's now a multimillionaire.
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In Chihuahua in northern Mexico, the popular band Los Tigres del Norte are banned because they sing some songs called 'narcocorridos', these are songs praising drug trafficking and the cartels. To be fair, in this case the band has only one or two such songs but there is a whole sub genre of Latin American music devoted to the gangs. Much like US rappers there is a culture of violence attached to it.
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| Stereotypical Black Gangsta band |
Of course in the US, the 'Gangsta Rap' has long been part of the Black Music scene. Here of course its all tied into racial politics, so that as recently as May 11, 2011 President Barrack Hussein Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited the black rap “artist” Lonnie Rashid Lynn, who goes by the stage names of 'Common' and 'Common Sense', as an honoured guest at the “Celebration of Poetry” event at the White House. Nothing controversial about that except that he is best known for a rap song titled “Song for Assata”. A song of praise for a black woman known as Assata Shakur (b. Joanne Chesimard), who is an escaped convicted murderer who was serving 'Life plus 26 to 30 years' for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973.
But of course there's nothing new under the sun .... as long ago as 1992 rapper 'Ice-T' wrote a song called "Cop Killers", which glorified the killing of police officers. He's now a multimillionaire.
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