The Spotify and SoundCloud music (and talk) hosting platforms have reportedly censored the new rap song “Safe Space” which contains controversial lyrics that run counter to the social justice narrative.
The politically incorrect but profanity-free rap from Bryson Gray and Patriot J sets the table with the opening libretto “They might ban me for this song, but this is how I’m rocking. Can’t be trans ’cause it ain’t real, they need a mental asylum.” Later in the approximately three-minute presentation, the rappers insist that “it’s only two genders, boy and girl, keep it simple…”
The rap, which is currently still available on YouTube in two versions, also chides — among various other targets — Joe (“ain’t the real president”) Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, multiculturalism, cross-dressing, and Don Lemon.
“If you like BLM, and you watch CNN, then you brain dead, prolly wear a mask in the bed,” the rappers say.
The song, which serves to reject the whole concept of safe spaces, and which is part of Gray’s new album “Bold As a Lion: Season 1,” also calls out vote fraud and open borders. As noted above, the song at several points also defiantly foreshadows the possibility that liberals might ban it.
Watch/listen to the video embedded below and draw your own conclusions (warning for content):
https://youtu.be/iIDmIxQ4dss
On Twitter, Bryson Gray posted a message purportedly from the Soundcloud Trust & Safety Team that implies that the song was taken down for “incitement to hatred” in violation of the platform’s terms of use. “Wow. Censorship is real,” Gray noted.
Earlier, he also shared a tweet suggesting that Spotify gave no reason for its ban.
https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1408089680118169602
https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1407749123843964938
Collaborating artist Patriot J also chimed in on social media, including this tweet:
Brb updating my resume with "banned from SoundCloud" https://t.co/KMHCQML4gE
— Patriot J (@PatriotJ) June 24, 2021
“The ban just shines a spotlight on how far Big Tech is willing to take their censorship of dissenting views. Spotify and SoundCloud don’t actually care about allegedly ‘hateful’ or ‘violent’ songs being on their platform, because if that were the case, they’d have taken down almost all of the popular rap songs on their platforms,” Patriot J told Breitbart News.
“We were silenced for being brave enough to go against the radical left agenda, and now we’re paying the price. Just another day in Joe Biden’s America!”
Patriot J may have been alluding to the fact that rap, which is in wide distribution in the culture, is typically loaded up with misogynistic lyrics and violent rhetoric, along with mass quantities of F-bombs and other vulgarities.
U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) praised the duo on Twitter: “These guys…are deep in the culture war and taking incoming fire…This is where conservatives abandoned the battlefield 40 years ago. Respect!”
Recall that the late Andrew Breitbart popularized the phrase “politics is downstream from culture.”
Spotify is the same company that deleted about 40 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from its digital archive after signing the popular podcaster to an exclusive, lucrative contract.
Spotify ‘cancels’ 42 episodes of ‘Joe Rogan Experience,’ remains to be seen how many more removed https://t.co/qbWhFiuBrN pic.twitter.com/wnppz0oqko
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) April 11, 2021
The apparent censoring of “Safe Space” has resulted in a crescendo of reactions on Twitter that reveals a double standard that might be, as it were, in play.
Here is a sampling:
Songs literally bragging about murdering people = fine
Song with shocking lyrics such as "there's only two genders" = banned https://t.co/W009JUBAQV
— Andrew Chapados (@AndrewSaysTV) June 25, 2021
Someone did a side-by-side comparison of the @RealBrysonGray & @sirhottest song that got banned on Spotify next to an Eminem song where he goes into detail about brutally raping a women — and it’s really all you need to know about liberal priorities & double standards.
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) June 25, 2021
New counter culture https://t.co/3Le1JX1Jjn
— CCG BRYSON (@RealBrysonGray) June 24, 2021
DISGUSTING, and 10:1 they still allow Snoops “Lavender” to be played, even though it’s music video shoots a person depicting TRUMP, then PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.. https://t.co/ilWUqpj0lR
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) June 24, 2021
So Cardi B can scissor twerk someone on national television while singing about her medical condition WAP, but @RealBrysonGray can’t even have a voice on Spotify? The weirdest of flexes. pic.twitter.com/ZQQlAdwU11
— Matt Memes (@MadMemeMatt) June 24, 2021
@Spotify is currently banning and supressing @RealBrysonGray song based on political ideology. Fact that they can do that is abhorrent & speaks volume to what they stand for. you can talk about WAP all day but mock delusional extreme left and THE STATE MEDIA MACHINE WILL BLOCK U
— Liberal Logic (@LiberalLogic0) June 24, 2021
Most are silent, including the majority of mainstream right wingers. https://t.co/wRaQXQDUnH
— CCG BRYSON (@RealBrysonGray) June 25, 2021
Facts. They can’t stop what’s coming. https://t.co/pFBkySjvdk
— CCG BRYSON (@RealBrysonGray) June 25, 2021
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