{"id":1083498,"date":"2021-12-04T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083498"},"modified":"2021-12-04T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T15:29:09","slug":"new-swedish-govt-wants-to-investigate-links-between-gangs-and-rap-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-swedish-govt-wants-to-investigate-links-between-gangs-and-rap-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New Swedish Govt Wants to Investigate Links Between Gangs and Rap Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-swedish-govt-wants-to-investigate-links-between-gangs-and-rap-music%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236041342-e1638473305187-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sweden\u2019s new Minister of Culture, Jeanette Gustafsdotter, says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime, to see if the music leads to gang activity.<\/p>\n<p>Minister&nbsp;Gustafsdotter stated that she was open to the idea of investigating links between gangster rap music and crime, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s very important to look at it and see: What does it lead to?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHopefully I can be of influence, take the debate, and talk about the seriousness of this situation. To get young people to interact culture and music in a different way so that it does not lead to violence,\u201d Gustafsdotter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/kultur\/nya-kulturministern-viktigt-att-titta-pa-vad-gangsterrappen-leder-till\">told<\/a> broadcaster SVT.<\/p>\n<p>She added that it was too early to determine how to carry out such a task, but noted that her experience working at the youth-focused non-profit&nbsp;Fryshuset showed her how music and culture can positively impact young people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9939759036145\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swedish Broadcaster Names Arrested Migration-Background Rapper \u2018Artist of the Year\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8O4C2exfwi\">https:\/\/t.co\/8O4C2exfwi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1374739531065405454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/22\/award-winning-teenage-rapper-shot-to-death-in-sweden\/\">killing<\/a> of popular Swedish rapper Nils \u2018Ein\u00e1r\u2019 Gr\u00f6nberg, who was shot dead by suspected gang members in southern Stockholm in October of this year, a debate has emerged in Sweden about the links between gangster rappers and criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p>The populist Sweden Democrats (SD) have called for gangster rap<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/kultur\/sd-vill-stoppa-gangsterrap-fran-att-spelas-i-radio\"> to be banned<\/a> from publicly-funded broadcasters following the murder of Ein\u00e1r, with&nbsp;Tobias Andersson, the party\u2019s legal policy spokesman, saying \u201cIt is clear that limiting the influence of this type of music is a type of crime prevention measure, and I see it as vital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government should call on the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention to develop a knowledge base on gangster rap and its influences in a gangster environment, just as it did with white supremacist music in the 1990s,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ein\u00e1r is not the only gangster rapper to have had connections to gang criminals. Migration-background rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/03\/24\/swedish-broadcaster-names-arrested-migration-background-rapper-artist-of-the-year\/\">Yasin<\/a> is also thought to have links to the notorious&nbsp;V\u00e5rby Network criminal gang and was arrested along with 20 others on New Year\u2019s Eve last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yasin, whose full name is&nbsp;Yasin Mahamoud, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/03\/24\/swedish-broadcaster-names-arrested-migration-background-rapper-artist-of-the-year\/\">awarded<\/a> \u2018Artist of the Year\u2019 by public broadcaster Sveriges Radio this year, despite these alleged gang links.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2340425531915\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since 2018 Sweden Has Seen Nearly 1,300 Shootings, 169 Fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BT2A0lWcXg\">https:\/\/t.co\/BT2A0lWcXg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1457395673293336577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s new Minister of Culture, Jeanette Gustafsdotter, says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime, to see if the music leads to gang activity. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}