MUSIC On Monday evening, opposition politician Charles Compagnon denounced the presence of the artist scheduled for the next Boomin Fest in March 2023
Excerpt from the piece “Hors Ligne” of Freeze Corleone (center). The rapper must be scheduled in March in Rennes. — YouTube screenshot YouTube screenshot
- Rapper Freeze Corleone’s programming in Rennes faces criticism from opposition elected officials.
- The artist has already been at the heart of a controversy because of his texts sometimes deemed anti-Semitic.
- His concert scheduled for Montreal on December 4 had been canceled after complaints from associations. The mayor of Rennes also asked that the programming of the Boomin Fest festival be reviewed.
It’s through a message from a woman from Rennes that the alert reached the desks of elected officials from the opposition group Libres d’agir. According to its leader Charles Compagnon, the woman was surprised to see Freeze Corleone being programmed. for a hip-hop evening organized on March 18, 2023 at Liberté as part of the Boomin Fest. Headliner of this second edition, the rapper is criticized; for some of his texts, deemed anti-Semitic. “He praises Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich,” elected by the municipal council on Monday evening.
In 2020, the Licra had already pinned the controversial lyrics of the born rapper in the Paris region. “I come determined. like Adolf in the 1930s, “everyday RAF fuck] of the Holocaust” or even “like Swiss bankers, everything for the family so that my children live like Jewish pensioners”, can we hear in particular in certain pieces. These remarks had resulted in on the opening of an investigation, and the record company Universal France had let go of it. the rapper. The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had also requested to its services to study legal remedies. Since then, the rapper based on in Senegal has not been the subject of any convictions.
A concert at; Montreal canceled under pressure
Recently, its programming at the Olympia in Montreal had been denounced by the association B’nai Brith Canada, which presents itself as “the oldest Jewish organization still in activity; in the world”. “Corleone”s rhetoric goes far beyond what he said. limits of artistic expression,” the director of B’nai B’rith quoted; by Radio Canada. The concert scheduled for December 4 had finally been announced. cancelled. Will it be the same at Reindeer? In any case, this is what the elected representative Charles Compagnon is asking for. “In Rennes, we will welcome this person? The inconsistency, on the one hand, is to make memory duty with the veterans, on May 8, to celebrate the victory of the Allies over Nazism [ …] and on the other hand; receive this Freeze Corleone. In political action, there are red lines that should not be crossed. For our group, the arrival of this singer is clearly a red line. And you, Madam Mayor, where? where is your red line?” the elected official of the opposition.
Mayor Nathalie Appéré admitted to discovering the rapper“s lineup “last week” The elected socialist wishes to contact Citedia, a company which manages the Salle du Liberté, where the festival must be held in March “for this lineup to be reviewed”. The mayor finds Freeze Corleone’s comments “not acceptable”, while recalling the lack of condemnation.