The debate over whether gangster rap can inspire crime is gaining momentum in Tuesday's season premiere of Week's Crime. Social Democrat Gustaf Lantz, who also sits on the Justice Committee, thinks the message in the rape is violent, sexist and hostile to women. He now wants leisure farms funded by taxpayers not to show gangster rap videos.

- I was out walking at night in an area that has been exposed to shootings and then I go into the leisure yard and see how the kids sit watching these videos and the adults do nothing. This message is not only spread, but somewhere sanctioned by the public, says Gustaf Lantz.

Think it is censorship

Criminologist Christoffer Carlsson does not agree and does not believe that gangster rap inspires crime. Instead, he thinks it's good that the rappers devote themselves to music instead of crime.

- Every song we see on these top lists is made by a person who, instead of being out on the street, has been in the studio. That's something good, he says.

Trying to stop recreation centers from playing gangster rap, Christoffer Carlsson thinks, is similar to censorship.

- Do you also think that you should remove Quick cash from the country's library? It is also a public institution, says Christoffer Carlsson.

"Crime prevention"

Gustaf Lantz does not believe in censorship but believes that it is about crime prevention aimed at young people.

- You have to distinguish between putting mouthpieces on people and bidding on limelight. And I don't think our tax money should offer a spotlight and spread this much and much violence propaganda, he says.

See the entire week's crime of gangster rap on SVT Play.