Where are you now?

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Where are you now? is a hidden track on the album Split Personality by Xavier Naidoo and Kool Savas also known as Xavas . The song features the singer Naidoo and the rapper Kool Savas. The song addresses ritual murders of children. It led to great controversy in 2012 and the duo were charged on suspicion of incitement to aggravated assault, manslaughter and sedition. The Mannheim public prosecutor saw no evidence of criminal offenses and closed the investigation.

Controversy and ad

The song was the sixteenth track on the number one album Split Personality. The youth organization of the Left Party and the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany (LSVD) filed criminal charges in November 2012 against the musicians, those in charge of the Tonpool Medien distribution company and the record labels Naidoo Records and Essah Entertainment because of an initial suspicion of calling for serious bodily harm, manslaughter and for sedition. Josi Michalke, federal spokeswoman for Left Youth , justified the decision with the glorification of violence, human contempt and homophobia of the song. "Child abuse rituals with pedophilia would be equated with homosexuality."

Comments from Naidoo and Xavas

In an interview with the radio station FFN, Naidoo explained: "It is about terrible ritual murders of children, which actually happen a lot in Europe, but which no one speaks about, no one reports." Naidoo went on to say that the line "Where are." our helpers, our strong men, where are our leaders, where are they now? ”was clearly addressed to those responsible in society, and that his wish was to use the song to draw attention to the subject so that something can be done about it. Naidoo went on to say: "If there is one thing I want to achieve in my life, it is that children never again die in this terrible way." Naidoo pointed out that he was sexually abused as an eight-year-old and therefore uses his music to fight child abuse wool.

Savas wrote on Twitter: "The left-wing youth simply took everything out of context in order to generate as much attention as possible."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katrin Kuntz: "Glorifying violence, inhuman, homophobic". In: Süddeutsche. Süddeutsche, November 14, 2012, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ajz: office is investigating Xavier Naidoo. In: Spiegel. Spiegel, November 14, 2012, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b No investigation against Xavas because of lyrics. In: tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel, November 15, 2012, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kool Savas responds to an ad. In: rap.de. Rap, November 13, 2012, accessed November 9, 2019 .