A few hours ago, I published a post entitled Public Enemy Has Released a New, Insanely Antisemitic Album. And No-One Is Talking About It. In it, I described how hip-hop rap group Public Enemy had seemingly released a new single called Sabbataist Zionist Wahhabi Freemason Terrorists, with some vile, antisemitic lyrics.
The project page on Bandcamp also showed some other song lyrics that were equally as vile.
I noted
Somehow, this slipped through everyone’s radar when it was released back in August. Except perhaps not in Italy, where the single reached number 67 on their iTunes top 100 hip-hop rap charts.
Besides iTunes and Bandcamp, it’s available on platforms Amazon Music, Spotify, and Last.FM.
I can’t believe music outlets like Rolling Stone and Billboard, or entertainment sites, found this worthy of reporting. Let’s make sure they at least now know about it.
It did not occur to me that this was not really Public Enemy at all, given their history of antisemitism controversies, including Professor Griff’s comments to Nick Cannon earlier this year.
But here I was wrong. Chuck D has stated on Twitter that it was not them at all, but an impersonator.
He clearly has no reason to be lying about this.
So what started off as a post about some vile antisemitism disseminated by a hop-hop rap group has turned into a post about some vile antisemitism disseminated by someone impersonating a hop-hop rap group.
Although less disturbing, given the relative levels of popularity between the two, it is still being disseminated all over the place and made the iTune charts.
