Freeze Corleone calls out “the death penalty” for Pierre Palmade. In his new album Attack of the Clonesreleased Monday September 11, 2023, the rapper from Seine-Saint-Denis targets several political or artistic figures, including the 55-year-old comedian accused of having caused a road accident in Seine-et-Marne in February 2023. More specifically in the piece Tse Chi Lopwhich mentions the death penalty against the famous theater actor, “if possible with techniques that come from Germany or from Mohammed ben Salmane”, in reference to the Saudi crown prince accused of having ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The video for the song was viewed around 123,000 times on YouTube in 24 hours, without Internet users being asked to react, comments being disabled.
Other personalities targeted, including Gérald Darmanin
As the complete The Parisian, Freeze Corleone is not his first attempt. Issa Lorenzo Diakhaté, the 31-year-old rapper of Italian and Senegalese origin, mentioned in his title Shavkat, in July 2023, the accusations of rape against Gérald Darmanin. As a reminder, the Minister of the Interior has benefited from a dismissal of the appeal for acts of sexual harassment, breach of trust and rape. According to the complainant Sophie Patterson-Spatz, the former mayor of Tourcoing promised to help her revise a conviction in exchange for sexual intercourse in 2009, which the person concerned did not deny. “I would rather be accused of anti-Semitism than of rape like Gérald Darmanin”, proclaims the artist in this title, evoking here the controversy over some of his “punchlines” described as anti-Semitic. Other public figures were also targeted by the controversial rapper, including ex-ministers Roselyne Bachelot and Jack Lang, far-right activists Damien Rieu and Jean Messiha, and journalists Thierry Ardisson and Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.