French Rapper Nick Conrad Faces Hate Speech Trial Over Song “Hang The Whites”

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French Rapper Nick Conrad Faces Hate Speech Trial Over Song "Hang The Whites" | Genius

“I condemn without reservation these abject remarks and ignominious attacks,” wrote France’s Interior Minister of the song.

French rapper Nick Conrad is under formal investigation according to The Washington Post for the controversial lyrics of his song “Pendez les Blancs (PLB).” The song’s title translates to “Hang the Whites,” and it features graphic, violent lyrics that have been at the center of much debate in France.

Per Google Translate, Conrad raps on the first verse about murdering white infants:

I’m going to nurseries, I kill white babies
Catch them fast and hang their parents
Spread them out to pass the time
Entertain black children of all ages, small and big

Per the BBC, Conrad’s trial will continue on March 19. The prosecution has requested a €5,000, though the maximum penalty for his charge of “incitement to murder” could be as severe as a €45,000 fine and five years in prison.

France is known for having strict hate speech laws, and in March 2018 their Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the country would make a specific effort to remove racist content from the internet. In 2006, popular French MC Monsieur Rfaced three years imprisonment and a €75,000 fine over the lyrics to his song “FranSSe.”



Conrad has spoken about the song’s video, which features further disturbing violence, saying that it was “fiction” and hi intention was “to reverse the roles of the white man and the black man.” He later clarified that the song is “not a call to hate” and that much of the crew who worked on the video are white.

“Rap is born in the ghetto, its mission is to denounce things, an artist aims to be inspired by the world to denounce, whether it likes it or not,” he told RTL France. “Even in France more than elsewhere, we have trouble with the truth.”

In May 2018, Spotify removed the music of R. Kelly and XXXTENTACION from playlists under its hateful conduct policy, though they were reinstated after much backlash. The topic was discussed on Genius' series For The Record.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Cacs shook as fukk right now.

 

[SirReginald]

Oh, cry me a fukking river.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

White French Nationalists stay terrorizing black and brown immigrants


Yet they wanna put a fukking rapper on trial...

Smh

 

[cornercommission2k12]

White French Nationalists stay terrorizing black and brown immigrants


Yet they wanna put a fukking rapper on trial...

Smh

Literally the same for us all over.

Pump music all about black degenerate behavior, over sexualized and violent , promoting drug and alcohol abuse and serving as free promotion to white companies, and no one cares a bit.

Threaten white people and platforms get taken down. Smh

 

[King Frost]

I wonder if ya'll breh know how lucky you are to be able to say fuk whitey & fukk trump with no recourse
french breh thought it was the same over there

In canada they can lock you up for talking reckless about trannys
in germany, they lock you up for denying the holocaust
in saudia arabia they kill you in the fukking embassy for talking ish about the royal family
go to china and talk sht about the president and see what happens

and some of yall pro blacks talk about leaving because of trump

 

[Code]

I wonder if ya'll breh know how lucky you are to be able to say fuk whitey & fukk trump with no recourse
french breh thought it was the same over there

In canada they can lock you up for talking reckless about trannys
in germany, they lock you up for denying the holocaust
in saudia arabia they kill you in the fukking embassy for talking ish about the royal family
go to china and talk sht about the president and see what happens

and some of yall pro blacks talk about leaving because of trump

Black countries exist

 

[King Frost]

Black countries exist

Future chinese colonies

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

I hope the usa never adopts this law the uk has the same law I remember the girl from misfits went to jail for saying racist shyt to a arab cab driver

 

[MikeyC]

I hope the usa never adopts this law the uk has the same law I remember the girl from misfits went to jail for saying racist shyt to a arab cab driver

So you you don't mind seeing racists, white supremacists and neo Nazis walk the streets of America free to spew hateful rhetoric?

 

[litty]

Yeah this song was lit actually. I hope that he doesn't get the 5 years in prison. The song was obviously a reversal of white supremacy's acts.

 

[3rdWorld]

fukk France

 

[Michael's Black Son]

fukk it. It’s only entertainment

like this American standard by kate smith

 

[James Gordon]

That song bang

 

[Cat piss martini]