January 7, 2021 - Yasin is arrested by the police



The rapper Yasin has been arrested by the police, suspected of being involved in kidnapping.

P3 Nyheter's review shows that the rapper is played significantly less after the announcement.

Music director Anna-Karin Larsson refers to the news situation as an explanation.

- In a sharp news situation around this person, we have chosen to rotate the songs a little less, she said then.

March 20, 2021 – Yasin is praised at P3 Gold

When Yasin is praised at the P3 Guld gala, he is still in custody, and the announcement is met with fierce criticism.

Sveriges Radio refers to its policy on distinguishing between work and person when defending the decision.

The news mode is not mentioned.

"It's the music that counts for us.

The fact that we play a person's music does not mean that we support the private opinions and actions of different artists.

It is important to separate the music from the person," wrote Anna-Karin Larsson in an email to Kulturnyheterna.

25 October 2021 – Einár is murdered in Stockholm

Four days after the murder of Einár, Anna-Karin Larsson is asked in Nordegren & Epstein in P1 if the incident affects SR's attitude to gangster rap.

The answer is that in some cases you look at individual songs, but the principle of work and person remains.

- We play music for music's sake.

Hip hop is one thing.

Street violence is another matter, Anna-Karin Larsson said then, and continued.

- We are not a court, we play music that our audience needs to hear.

December 9, 2021 – Gangster rap is reduced in P3

In a survey by Expressen, it appears that the gigs of three gangster rappers have dropped sharply in P3 and Din Gata after convictions for crimes, in one case also after the murder of Einár.

Anna-Karin Larsson denies that the murder affected what is played, but admits that the rotation of certain artists has been reduced.

- We relate to the news situation.

We have done that here as well, replies the music manager.

- No one says this is easy.

These are quite difficult assessment questions.

March 1, 2023 - Crime affects radio rotation

When Kulturnyheterna makes a survey of how often SR played the rapper Yasin between 2020 – 2023, it appears that the sharp reduction has been going on for several years.

Now Anna-Karin Larsson refers neither to work nor person, nor the news situation.

The radio rotation is directly linked to crime.

- We are adamant that we are not influenced in the way that we ban and censor, but again that we take into account the situation in society, says Anna-Karin Larsson today.

So crime was the reason in the long run?

- Yes, crime or the state of the social debate always affects how we choose music.

What we play more of and what we possibly play a little less of.

That's how it always works.