Lyrics of Oxxxymiron’s track “Last Call” recognized as extremist

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recognized the text of the track “Last Call” by rapper Oxxxymiron (Miron Fedorov – recognized as a foreign agent) as extremist material.

A lawsuit demanding to recognize the song as extremist and ban its distribution in Russia was filed by the Moscow prosecutor’s office. The court granted the department’s claim in full, a Kommersant correspondent reports. During the debate, the prosecutor said that “the presence of the named material on the Internet creates a threat of undermining the foundations of the constitution of the system,” and asked “to satisfy the claims in full.”

In the track, the rapper, in the first person, tells the story of an 11th grade student who comes to graduation with a weapon and shoots his classmates.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the song contains “signs of a public justification of terrorism – shootings in schools and other public institutions”, it “contributes to the formation of terrorist views and attitudes”, it “contains a public justification of terrorism.”

The track was released in 2009 and was featured on Oxxxymiron’s first mixtape. For the first time, proposals to ban the lyrics of the song were made in 2018 after the massacre at the Kerch Polytechnic College. In October of that year, a fan-made video for the track (no official video) was blocked due to its propaganda of violence. The video sequence was made from frames of the Estonian film “Class” of 2007, which is not banned in Russia.

Alexey Sviridov