“We need such a cultural impulse”: in Russia they proposed to ban rap

Popular rapper Vitya “AK-47” may become one of the reasons for the ban on rap in Russia. The fact is that

All-Russian public movement “Veterans”Russia” demanded to ban rap in our country and cancel the rapper’s concert, which is due to take place soon at the Yeltsin Center, News.ru reports. Discuss

According to the head of "Veterans of Russia" Ildar Rezyapov, in Viti's songs there is a huge amount of obscenities, references to smoking, drugs, alcohol, prostitution and delinquency.

Each of their tracks promotes drugs,alcohol, smoking, minor and major offenses, and all this is listened to mainly by schoolchildren under 16-17 years old. The performer Vitya AK-47 positions himself as “cool”, “clear” a guy who supposedly rules in rap and is the best at it, but in fact looks quite funny and pathetic... Tattoos and rap on television were banned in China, this is exactly the kind of cultural impulse we need today so that the field of our thousand-year-old culture is not overgrown with Western ideological weed - rap

Ildar RezyapovHead of Veterans of Russia

The head of the organization made an official appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the head of the RF Investigative Committee and the governor of the Sverdlovsk region demanding to cancel the rapper's concert.