According to Codacons Tony Effe, Guè, Emis Killa and Fedez should withdraw their songs with sexist and violent lyrics from the market
Codacons' battle against the rappers competing at the 2025 Sanremo Festival continues.
The consumer association had already intervened even before the big names in the competition were announced, threatening Carlo Conti and Rai with taking legal action if there were “artists with violent, sexist or misogynistic lyrics” in the Festival cast. Obviously there are and therefore now the Codacons
asks to preview the lyrics of the songs that will be competing in Sanremo 2025 and makes an appeal to the rappers included by Carlo Conti in the cast of the singing event to withdraw the songs published in the past and containing sexist and violent lyrics.
“After the mess made by Carlo Conti and Rai – we read in the press release issued by Codacons – which at the very moment in which a fierce fight against feminicides, gender violence and bullying began in Italy, they included artists in the cast of Sanremo whose songs were characterized by insults to women and violent phrases, we have decided to write to all the singers who will participate in the next Festival, in order to preview the lyrics of the songs in the competition and evaluate and report the presence of possible dangerous content. In fact, the fear is that the unbridled rush for the audience by Rai and the artistic director could have pushed the texts into the background, to the benefit of controversial names capable of guaranteeing ratings for the broadcast”.
Codacons addresses Emis Killa, Fedez, Tony Effe and Guè directly, whom it defines as “rappers who have distinguished themselves in the past for the violence and dangerousness of their lyrics”and invites them to “distance themselves from sexist content and insults to women, by withdrawing from music platforms and the web their songs containing lyrics that represent an offense against the female gender or that may encourage young people to engage in violence”.
