Yasin, or Yasin Abdullahi Mahamoud as he is really called, reports on weapons and drugs. He has previously been convicted of, among other things, preparation of human trafficking and serious weapons crime.
Make a comeback in Umeå – receive criticism from police and politicians
After not staying in public for almost a decade, the rapper this year makes a comeback on stage. The first gig in nine years will be in Umeå on the fireball acid at the end of May.
Thomas Palmgren, investigative manager at the police, thinks it is problematic.
Can it even counteract your work that these artists are glorified at festivals in the county?
– I would say that absolutely has an impact on young people’s views on drugs, that you can be successful despite propagating this type of lifestyle. So absolutely, I think it can have a harmful effect on society, he says.
The booking also receives criticism from cultural politicians. Anton Bergström Nord (M) questions that the music and event industry holds that type of artists about the back.
– This music genre has known connections to gang crime and the rappers are of great importance to the gang in Sweden, he says.
Reaches the criticism
Peter Arkhult, CEO of the Homerun Festivals, which arranges the fireball acid, thinks the booking is something positive.
– The music he writes today is rather about love and exclusion. Rather, we want to turn to the question and point out that Yasin shows a way out of gang crime and to a better life as a two -child father that he has clearly conveyed in the media, he writes in an email to SVT.
“Would never book a gangster”
The fireball acid has previously written to a youth on social media, who wanted a gig of yasin, that they “would never book a gangster”, as shown in screenshots that SVT took part in.
Yasin says he left the crime behind, but the song lyrics still reflect a glorification of a gang criminal lifestyle. How do you think about it?
– Hip hop is the world’s largest genre of young people. I think it is difficult to find any hip hop artist without texts that can be questioned, continues Peter Arkhult.
SVT has sought Yasin’s management for a comment, without results.