[lg policy] When Art Is an Immigration Issue

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



When Art Is an Immigration Issue



Someone employed by the U.K.’s immigration authority has, very clearly, had Tyler, the Creator's music on repeat. When the 24-year-old rapper was stopped while trying to cross from Calais to Dover last month, an English official reportedly presented him with a piece of paper listing lyrics from some old songs of his, along with this statement: “Your albums Bastard, in 2009, and Goblin, in 2011, are based on the premise of your adopting a mentally unstable alter ego who describes violent physical abuse, rape, and murder in graphic terms which appears to glamourise this behaviour.”



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/tyler-the-creator-banned-in-uk-hip-hop-rap/403690/?google_editors_picks=true
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