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Several artists have returned their Echo Awards in Germany to protest the award won by two rappers whose lyrics boasted of having “bodies more defined than Auschwitz inmates.”
In response to the award controversy BMG, which distributes releases by Kollegah and Farid Bang, has announced a campaign against anti-Semitism.
At the awards ceremony on April 12, a speaker condemning the rappers received a standing ovation.
The award recognizes sales, not the content of the album, but the awards committee has pledged to rethink how it will choose winners, according to Variety.
Kollegah and Farid Bang won the Echo Award for having 2017’s best-selling hip-hop album.