Micheál Martin, Ireland’s prime minister, has called for Irish hip-hop group Kneecap to “urgently clarify” comments allegedly made during the band’s concerts about killing Tory MPs.
Video of the group at a gig in November 2023 emerged, showing one member saying, “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.” Footage of another show in November 2024 appeared to show a member of the rap trio shouting, “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah,” with a Hezbollah flag displayed.
Similarly, a spokesperson for the UK government noted: “We unequivocally condemn threatening remarks made towards any individual.”
“Political intimidation and abuse must have no place in our society. We recognize the chilling effect that harassment and intimidation of elected representatives can have on our democracy,” their statement continued. “All reports of intimidation, harassment, and threats are taken extremely seriously. We work with the police and Parliament to do everything in our power to crack down on threats to elected officials.”
Meanwhile, Democratic Unionist Party leader Gavin Robinson called for an investigation into the band. “Promoting sectarianism, glorifying violence, and spreading division under the guise of ‘art’ is still hate,” Robinson noted.
The band’s manager, Daniel Lambert, remarked that the band had received “severe” death threats since their Coachella set. Both the Hurricane Festival in northern Germany and its sister event the Southside Festival have dropped the act from the lineup.
These niggas are getting more based by the day
Leftoids will cry about human rights of "oppressed" peoples while promoting murdering their opponents. God, i can't wait until there's a civil war so i can have carte blanche to slaughter subhumans like these
Leftoids will cry about human rights of "oppressed" peoples while promoting murdering their opponents.
and?
statement from the group on Instagram:
They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.
Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.
Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation’s history. We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever.
An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.
This distortion is not only absurd — it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.
All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel. At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed.
The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head. Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.
This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.
Kneecap’s message has always been and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.
No smear campaign will change that.
Suddenly, days after calling out the us administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain. The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.
Shame on them.
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Irish hip-hop group
bro why won't you just let us genocide you civil and peacefully?
lol this is the most offensive bit really
Why are the Irish and Scots so cringe when the Welsh are fine?
palestinefags
lmfao
That's literally what you yourself are asking for right now.
we are part of da brave armed resistance
Whatever. Just makes it easier to tune out the news of worthless pali kid #9172817 getting blown to bits
Footage of another show in November 2024 appeared to show a member of the rap trio shouting, “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah,” with a Hezbollah flag displayed.
holy BASED
b-but muh heckin jewerinos!
no one cares
Does anyone here actually like their music?
For context, I am an Irish catholic living in West Belfast just around the corner from these guys and they just don't have the talent to back up their provocative performances, it is literally LARPing and I feel cringe when I hear about them
I understand why people like them here, we have a godawful hiphop rap scene but it puzzles me how they broke into the US and abroad
Plus they revealed themselves many times they are just in it for the money, they backtracked on everything today in a statement. Plus that Naoise fella is well know around West Belfast as a creep, he's threatened women with his auntie solicitor to stop talking in public
music
not music
You won't do shit faggot. Good news for you because the "Civil War 2.0" cope WILL NEVER FUCKING HAPPEN. Also fuck Kneecap(just fucking look at em, bunch of faggots) and Fuck Gaza I hope they all die. I also wish all kikes were dead. Is that the response you wanted, homo? No, cause you are simping for sand niggers. Fucking pathetic. America should have just glassed the entire middle east 40 years ago. Should have also glass you and your family, wherever the fuck you live. "Based" is a nigger term so I'm not shocked you used it. KYS and do us all a fucking favor.
Take a trip to Gaza or Lebanon, I'm sure they'll welcome your ape looking ass with open arms. Fight for what you believe in instead of being a faggot on the internet.
I will solve your puzzle. In America, zoomers in Ivy League schools are going full blown balls deep into RIVER TO THE SEA and FREE PALESTINE(which they didn't know anything about until they watched a ChinkTok video 2 minutes before. Then they get their sand nigger scarf from wish dot com and act like they care about browns when they just want to be apart of something no matter what. People are so fucking stupid. Let them kill each other. Who gives a fuck?
you neefags dosnt know about house of pain fuck outta here homeboys
Cromwell was right. The Irish are subhumans.
"All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel."
Why aren't they dying then?
sticking up for muslims when they'd just rape and kill your ass and take over your country.
lol chavs
How come no one talks about their music
Because it sucks like all paddy music.
What the fuck is that?
youtu.be
all these israel defenders itt
if you would have told me 10 years ago that anons on Anon Babble were going to start gagging on kike dick, I would have called you a liar
she says while gagging on muslim dick
OK Mohammad.
ireland needs a few more trucks of peace before they get it through to their thick potato heads.
muslims are better than kikes - lesser of two evils
most of their fans are in the UK/Ireland (the UK hip hop scene is fairly dire as well)
Sure, but there's usually a higher bar for success in hiphop than this in Britain
You're brown.
they're still basically underground though, at this rate they might reach the top 50 british hip hop acts on Spotify in a few months, picrel is the top 20
youtube.com
its as bad as you imagine
what about that Rejjie Snow guy? he's the #1 irish rapper I think
no amount of people calling me a West Brit will stop me from finding groups like Kneecap and Rubber Bandits cringe inducing slop for culchies and shitlibs from Dublin who desperately want to signal their Irishness at every opportunity
we have a godawful hiphop rap scene
Suppose you've never listened to Steve Loc or Jay Suttin? They're not from West Belfast but the rap scene up here has talent. Anyway side note, the lower falls is so fucking brown now, I'm all the way up the shaws and I wonder how long it'll take to reach here.
cry more shlomo
They apologised (sort of).
sticking up for kikes when they already took over your country and are in the process of raping and killing your ass