The Chaser Report - The Rap on Police's Rapper Ban

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

The police have banned "rapper" music, and yes you read read that correctly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chaser Report is recorded on Gatigal Land. Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence, this is The Chaser Report. Hello and welcome to The Chaser Report. I'm Charles Firth and with me today, as always, is Dom Night. On today's podcast, we're going to begin with, I guess, the most important new story that's broken, Charles. The New South Wales Police has wore on what they call rapper music. But before we get to that, we've got some feedback from Monday's episode, the B.M. Minimum Monday, I've got to say, Charles, when I saw that come out, come up in the feed, it's half an hour long.

What the hell are we doing recording such a long episode? Yes, actually, that was one of the points that somebody made, which was, why was it so fucking long, right? Yeah, people went for walks and listened to it and had to keep walking for a long time. But my excuse, which I thought was very drawl, was that we couldn't be bothered turning off the button to stop recording. And certainly not bothered editing it. I mean, we said to Loughlin, don't cut a thing. Like, that just take too much time. Yeah.

So, yeah, it was sort of like uncut. Uncut. It's a bit like Big Brother After Dark. And uncut usually means worse, let's be honest. But it seemed to have caused a bit of a sort of reaction. Oh, yeah. Mr. Firth, why is such a minimum effort Monday? Why was your minimum effort Monday pod so long?

Couldn't be bothered turning off the recorder. And he responded, hashtag premium content. That's what's called irony. Rickville said he can't be bothered I can't be asked finishing this episode But he got all the way to six minutes The last six minutes was the best stuff

Rick That's way too many minutes We expected the listeners to make a bear effort To make a bear in the method as well A lot of people wishing me My wife happy birthday

That's nice That's nice Is she still your wife after that episode Well hopefully she isn't Listen to it I've been walking around in fear. Yeah, and fair enough.

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This is the best review we ever had, Charles. Jacko 5-6214. Remindful show, five stars. I just thought I'd leave this review here to remind myself to get milk on the way home tomorrow, thanks in advance. That is the first time we've actually helped anybody in the history of this podcast. That's right, because now he'll remember to get the milk. Please add your shopping list to the Apple Podcasts review page. Five stars, please, and then whatever you want to remember, we'll mention it.

We'll read it out and we'll remind you of the thing. And in actual fact, not only that, but we can automate it with AI. So everyone just be very quiet, and I'll just say, hey, seriously. Sorry, add to my shopping list, milk, right? And now what will happen is, I think Siri will add it to your shopping list, unless you've got an Android. Hey, Google. Okay, Google, add milk to my shopping list. There you go, yeah.

Hey, Alexa, add milk to my shopping list. Hey, Alexa, tell my owner, he or she is an idiot. Hey, Alexa, tell my owner he or she is an idiot for buying an Alexa. Doesn't suck. Charles, stop, stop. Are you about to play a round? Rapper music, not rap music, rapper music. What?

What? What? Rapper music. Rapper music. It's been banned from Sydney's Royal Easter show. Yes, this is the racist ban. No, no. Charles, it's for public safety.

The Comincherro bikey gang used rapper music to recruit members. Is this like, is this the sort of lolly rappers that they put in the show bear? That's right. It's the tidepods at the dangle in front of vulnerable kids. So this is according to NSWiles, our police assistant commissioner. Stuart Smith, who said that last year, the Comincero Biky gang, and I quote, particularly and proactively, procured, this lot of peas, youths through rapper music. They procured a significant youth gang problem to carry out violent crime.

So you heard the rap music and he hypnotised into being violent. Ah, well, that's why, because I used to listen to Lionel Richie, and that's why I'm so schmaltzy. Yeah, yeah. It's just a clear causation. it is important to note it's been denied that it's a racist move it's just to do with the type of music if they play violent music

like gangster rap it automatically makes people in the same way that when I heard the song Baby Shark I wanted to live in the sea and bite people I love how the police are very good at not profiling people or at least claiming

to not profile people No, no, let's take them at their word. They're very good at not profiling people, even though it completely appears, according to all the evidence, that they're actually profiling people. Like, you know how the way they always strip-search young teenagers, underage teenagers?

But they claim that it's nothing to do with the fact that they like strip-searching under-age teenagers. It just is a coincidence that they all happen to be underage. teenage teenagers. I suppose it's also a coincidence that historically police groups have been accused of racism in many different places. Look, University of Sydney criminology professor, I'm quoting an ABC News article here,

argued that there was little evidence that rap music incited violent crime, which just tells me, Charles, the Comencheros have gotten to him too. It's very, very sad to see. So, how does this work? Hang a sec. So this is played, this is the music played in side show alley where the rides are. Yes. So the

Carnies play rap music. Yes. How is it The Karnies are in cahoots with the Comanchero Bikie gangs. Well, it's a criminal record, Dom. They're rip-off games. That is actually true. And you need a bikey gang to be, if you're running that sort of grief, you need... To be the enforcers.

You need the bikies to enforce the $5 payments. I don't want to cast aspersions on anyone at the ETA show. But the Karni's running those sideshow games, the notion that they would be in cahoots with a serious and major multi-million dollar criminals. criminal operation, is a long bow to draw. If your thing is setting up basketball rings that are actually more ovals than

rings, but you can't tell, you're not allowed to see them from the side. If that's your scam, like, I don't see that you're doing that, but then also importing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs. Yeah, but I, well, although I think they both have an overlapping interest in showbags. Actually, you know what, if they'd said in the

showbags, in the showbag bavilleon, I would have been on board. That Bertie Beatle, it's like crack for kids. Yeah, it's a weird, it's a weird one. It's a weird one. I think that by the time, by the way, I'm going to call it, I think by the time you hear this podcast, they will have reversed it. They will have reversed the racist decision.

I mean, not racist. I think someone will have said, hey, just pointing it. It's called rap music, by the way, not rapper music. And the rapper music is the sort of thing you listen to Christmas. The next dayle band, hop-hit move. Yeah, that's right. The Chaser Report. More news.

less often. I think it'll be reversed by the time you read. I might be wrong. Yeah, I think you're probably going to be wrong, Don, because, you know, the police are pretty good at just, you know, sticking to racist ideas. I mean, that's why NWA recorded that famous song, applaud the police for their sensitivity at times of tension

for de-escalating violence. I want to just talk to the guy who runs a whole lot of venues in Sydney, including the factory theatre and the Inmore, right? And he had some great tales about it. Because you have to maintain cordial relationship with the police at all times, right? Yeah. If you're a venue operated. Of course.

The police essentially have the power to shut you down on a whim. They can. They want. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so, and they had decided that even though they're not racist, yeah. New South was police never been racist. There's no evidence of that.

that they were going to just ban hip-hop music and only hip-hop music. And when asked why, it was because of the sort of people that those events attracted, right? Right. Which was... Which is people of colour, right. But it was not, it was not to do with the colour. It was to do with the sort of colour that these people were, I think, or something. It's a very fine line.

And of course, we are well placed, Charles. You and I, as colourless men, as pale white men. I'm often sunburnt red. You are to comment on this. Splotchy white men. I just think, isn't there someone at New South Wales Police who vets the statements and just goes, well, if we put this out, if the Assistant Commissioner comes and says this, are people going to think, yeah, it's just, there might be a slight, like, who is the person going to? Excuse me, Assistant Commissioner. I think this might create some sort of massive backlash.

Shouldn't there be a person who does that? It just taps me on the shoulder and says, no. Not a good idea. Well, unfortunately, what happened was the person in charge redacted the press release. But it was all in black, and so they rejected it. Right, the Comincheros got to. Yeah, no doubt.

So, Charles, are you a fan of rapper music? Actually, let me see, because I'm quite interested in this. do you know any rappers? Yes. Who are the rappers that you know? NWA. N-D-W-A. Name another song of theirs besides Fuck the Police.

Fuck the Police, too, the sequel. Who else? Does Jimmy Barnes count as a rap? I'm just trying to think. I can't think of a genre. I can't think of a genre you would be less into than rap. Oh, no. It's wet-ass pussy.

Was that a rap song? Yeah, it was. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, and her name was Cardi B. Cardi B. Yeah, there you go. And Megan the Stallion. Yeah, it's not, it's not your genre.

I could go on sale of the century. This is because. Deal or no deal. It's just that you're racist, isn't it? I mean, let's be honest, you don't like rap music. It's not your thing. Is it because you just don't like the, the gritty urban sounds? You're not like rapping, like what?

Can I let you in on a little secret? What's the issue here? which is actually, and I really shouldn't be talking about this, but I'm deep undercover, right? Oh, my God. Yes, I'm actually, I'm actually a Commero. I see. Who uses rapper music to recruit the youth.

So you wouldn't play it. But I can't. I can't tell anyone because then I'll be arrested by the police. But also, so that's why you don't listen to it. You actually, you love it. Yeah, I love it. You can't play it because it'll give it away. Yeah, exactly.

That's why I've never played it in my life. Yeah. It's because I'm just actually, it's, I'm just, I'm in too deep, man. It's very, I've got to say, it is very deep cover that you're under. If you, if you were a bikey overlord, I mean, most of them splashed some wealth around. It's really not your way of doing things, isn't it? See, that's why I complained about interest rate rises. It's part of my cover.

Right. So you're actually rich. Yeah. In reality. Yeah. Like, I actually like interest rate rises because it means there's, my money is earning more interest. In your savings. Yeah.

Because there's one thing the bikey, bikey overlords have, it's high interest savings accounts that they've set up. What about you? Are you into rapper music? I really do like rap music. Why? Because I was so desperately uncool, as you'd remember. Well, years. That in my teams.

Why are you using the past tense? Yeah, it was an uncool teenager, obviously uncool now, but I listened to rap music, and I discovered the perfect gateway band. There's a group called Daela Soul. Oh, yes. Amazing records, but the great thing about them is they're very much dorky intellectuals.

They're not only an incredibly cool band, but they're total dorks. And they even put out a song making fun of gangster rap. And somehow didn't get shot, because they were so innocuous that all the gangsters went, oh, we couldn't. They're just, they're like, the, M&M of rap. No, no, they're Eminem's sort of, I think Eminem's, no, Dalai Sol, you should listen to

them, they're very dorky. Was it like the Weird Al-Yankovic of rap? Kind of, yeah, they're almost, they would be, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that's how I got into rap, and then I started listening to the stuff that was a little bit harder. And what were they called again, De La Sol? De La Sol. Yeah, right.

And they didn't get a bad rap from you. No, very well done. But the thing is, I, the gangster stuff, you know, it's a little. little bit for my for my bourgeois sensibilities charles it's a it's a little bit do they have to swear so much oh no and really must they degrade women couldn't they couldn't they make their rap songs charles without degrading women couldn't they want empowering that's why i'm against it is it yeah disempowerment right yeah okay well i'm this is the first and last episode of the chaser report to deal with rap i think we've danced around all the the possible racism with great

sensitivity and plomb and this is going to be the last episode ever recorded of the chase a report. Clearly our cancellation is long overdue. Anyway, that'll do us. Our gears from Road. We're part of the iconoclast network and I think we can guarantee, Charles, plenty more bare minimum effort content into the future. Mind you, we've got an amazing guest lined up for Good Friday, so keep an eye out for that. All right.