Stormzy has cancelled an appearance at the Snowbombing Festival in Austria hours before he was due to go on stage due to racial profiling....
Stormzy has cancelled an appearance at the Snowbombing
Festival in Austria hours before he was due to go on stage due to racial
profiling.
The furious rapper said his manager and friends
were 'targeted and aggressively handled by security because they had reason to
believe someone was carrying a weapon.'
The festival had said: 'Snowbombing regrets to inform you
that Stormzy will no longer be performing at the festival this evening. Last
night (Wednesday 10) Snowbombing's security were alerted to the possibility
that an individual at the festival was allegedly carrying a weapon.
'In accordance with protocol, a small number of attendees,
including Stormzy’s manager were escorted to the nearest exit, searched and no
weapon was found. Stormzy's management were unhappy with the manner by which
this took place and as a result Stormzy will no longer be performing tonight.
Stormzy hit back :'My manager and all my friends who were
at the festival were racially profiled, targeted and aggressively handled
because they had ‘reason to believe someone was carrying a weapon.’
'The security targeted them (despite no one fitting the
description), were physically aggressive when handling them and there’s been no
effort from the festival to actually deal and address the problem.
'This is the kind of soul draining sh** black people gotta
deal with all the f***ing time and I'm so sick of it, so f*** the festival and
f*** the performance.
'Again deeply sorry to who came but I need you to
understand why this is necessary in the grand scheme of tryna fight back
against racism.'
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