Earlier this summer, during London rap duo Bob Vylan ‘s performance at Glastonbury Festival in England, rapper Bobby Vylan led the massive crowd in chants of “Free, free Palestine ,” as well as “Death, death to the IDF [ Israel Defense Forces].” The chant led to fierce backlash, resulting in Prime Minister Starmer saying at the time, “There is no excuse for this kind of appalling hate speech,” and the incident prompted a police investigation . The U.S. State Department also revoked the duo’s U.S. visas ahead of their fall tour. The group was also dropped from Radar Festival and France’s Kave Fest.
Vylan later defended his onstage remarks in a Instagram post captioned, “I said what I said.”
The rapper joined The Louis Theroux Podcast on Oct. 1 — before news of a