Rap Music Cause of Race Riots in France

[Aryan Lord]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4469484.stm

The French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, has dismissed claims by some of his party colleagues that rap music fuelled suburban rioting in France.

Mr de Villepin told French radio that he wanted to avoid finger-pointing about the origins of the unrest.

But he said that the courts should deal with lyrics that overstepped the mark.

About 200 MPs have urged the justice ministry to prosecute seven rap groups over allegedly provocative lyrics. A probe has begun into one group.

Wherever they roam, they have well earned their historically descriptive name: nigger.

Prosecutors have begun an inquiry into a song entitled FranSSe, in which rapper Monsieur R the calls France a prostitute.

Monsieur R says the song is a diatribe against French leaders who have neglected ethnic minorities, not an attack on France in general.

"Hip hop is a crude art, so we use crude words. It is not a call to violence," he told French television.

If France is a prostitute, then it's not for not neglecting the animals, but for letting them in and treating them like humans.