“Abjection”, “toxic”: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella denounced on Tuesday on their social networks “No pasarán”, a song by a collective of rappers opposed to the rise of the extreme right in the legislative elections.
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“The famous +incisive punchlines+: calls for murder, violent misogyny, crass anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories,” writes Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, above screenshots of the slogans of “No pasarán”, such as “Jordan you’re dead” or “A blow of the stick on these female dogs in heat”.
“The mental universe of the extreme left is increasingly toxic. And the media that endorses this have lost all decency…” he continues.
“The New Popular Front. Sounds appealing, doesn’t it? I hope the public prosecutor’s office will take up this abjection,” posts Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group in the National Assembly, above a screenshot of other phrases (“Fuck the RN”, “France is us, not these bastards”).
Proceeds donated to the Abbé Pierre Foundation
The title “No pasarán”, as well as its video clip, were put online by a collective of around ten rappers, including Fianso and Akhenaton.
Brought together under the leadership of producer and composer Djamel Fezari, aka DJ Kore, and artistic director Ramdane Touhami, the artists (Mac Tyer, Seth Gueko, Zola and Soso Maness…) began producing this ten-minute piece the day after the European elections, where the National Rally came out on top.
“The situation is serious. When we learn that the leading youth party is the RN, if we did not react, it would be a serious mistake on our part (…) it is our way of campaigning,” Ramdane Touhami told AFP about the single named in reference to the Spanish slogan against the regime of General Franco in the 1930s.
The funds generated by listening to the song will be donated to the Abbé Pierre Foundation.
“It’s the new version of ‘Youth pisses off the National Front’,” the punchline of a 40-year-old song by the punk group Bérurier Noir, still chanted in demonstrations against the far right, Ramdane Touhami wants to believe.
In 1997, seventeen French rap artists, including Akhenaton, signed “11’30 against racist laws”.
