Two Romanian rappers, known for controversial anti-EU, conspiracy and anti-Semitic messages, are presented as life models in a religion manual for the eighth-grade students.
Rappets are “landmarks for teenagers.” Photo: religion manual
Stelian Crăciun (Cedry2k) and Dragoș Tudorache (Dragonu AK47), two Romanian rappers known for messages that promote Euroscepticism, conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism and praise the Iron Guard leaders appear as a “landmarks for adolescents” in a religion manual for the 8th grade. This is the manual published in October 2020 by Corinth Logistic Publishing House and signed by Cristina Benga, Aurora Ciachir, Niculina Filat, Mihaela Ghiţiu and Ioana Niculae.
Thus, on page 64, the book proposes the reflection on the parable of Saint Peter Damascus, which transmits the idea that, no matter how many falls you have in life, you must rise every time. On the next page, Cedry2k and Dragonu AK47 appear, presented in front of high school students to tell their life story, in a formulation that places them in the role of “wandering sons” who returned to faith after a period marked by excesses.
The manual presents as follows:
“Four friends, three of them rap singers – Stelian Crăciun, alias Cedry2k, Dragoș Tudorache, known as the Dragon Ak 47, Robert Iordache, also Robert Drogatul – and the Graphic Dragoș Lipșa, also wanted to be happy. The story of their lives is one that has changed their destinies. concerts, where drugs and alcohol were interwoven with the pride of being The Best in Town.
In the manual, Cedry2k is quoted by saying: “God does not give up His love for us at the time of falling, but loves us more at the time of our lifting. The more important are in the eyes of God than the falls,” A statement initially published in the newspaper Lumina, publication of the Romanian Patriarchate, and taken over in the school manual.
However, beyond the image of the two as people who “returned to God”, the public messages promoted by Cedry2k through his songs remain quite controversial, the lyrics abounding in anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-vaccinist and hostile topics.
“You do not escape as a laugh, that there is no TV station not to advertise at the EU.
And the messages are viral: when you have no empty women, you have gay propaganda right from the primary classes
Is it surprising that you follow a way in which acceptance means great rational exploitation
Barbary deforestation from multinational
Legal drugs, the number of increasing abortions, that …
European laws are some pigs
Close your eyes to problems, put rooms, antennas, sell drugs in children ” (Stolen Romania – Cedry2k).
“Jet from my eyes, you and those eggs of ovra
And the dogs you give Okey to Gay and Moschei ” (Same game, cedry2k)
Also, the artist praises characters associated with the Legionary Movement:
“Honest the memory of the saints of the prisons
The suffering and courage of the confessors
Just as Brancoveanu defended their nation ‘
Captain ‘Codreanu, Bordeianu, George Manu
Traian Trifan, Oprișan, Ogoranu ”.
