Yasin made a big breakthrough in 2019, but it was in connection with P3 Gold in 2021 that he became known even outside music Sweden.

He was then unable to be there and receive his awards because he was in custody on suspicion of preparing to kidnap the rapper Einár.

It was the starting point for the debate about gangster rap and whether one should distinguish between work and person when playing and praising music by people who are suspected of serious crimes.

Sentenced to ten months in prison

Yasin was later sentenced to ten months in prison for preparing the kidnapping of Einár.

According to the police, the investigation showed that Yasin had close ties to a criminal gang - and although the kidnapping that Yasin was preparing was blown off, it was later carried out with the help of another rapper in the form of a kind of humiliation robbery.

The music is still about crime

He himself has said that he has put crime behind him.

According to Kulturnyheterna's music critic Tali da Silva, it is a partially new Yasin we hear on the new album.

- He raps about the backside of criminal life.

He often makes himself a megaphone for society's weak, she says.

The album also contains a lot of introspection and relationship depictions.

- He comes off a bit like a father feminist, he had a daughter not so long ago.

At the same time, there is still a lot of crime in music.

It is up to the listener to decide if he has shifted perspective

Yasin himself claims that he has shifted perspective.

- So he says that he now raps

about

the guy who is involved in gang crime, not

as

that guy.

Lyrically, the songs are similar to the ones he made when he was de facto involved in gang crime.

So it will be up to the listener to decide whether he has shifted perspective or not, says Tali Da Silva.

See more of the conversation about Yasin in the clip above.