Rapper Martin Pohl, performing under the name Řezník, was declared the golden nightingale in the Hip Hop & Rap category. But he came to the podium not so much to take over the price as to settle the bills.
The announcer of the Internet Star category and the then general partner of the Czech Nightingale poll, Mattoni, excluded him from the competition in 2017 on the grounds that “he expresses violence and substance abuse in the lyrics of his songs in a vulgar way, explicitly depicting violence and substance abuse”.
The case provoked conflicting reactions and was the reason why the singer Tomáš Klus decided to boycott the poll in the following years due to alleged censorship.
In Friday’s speech, Butcher criticized the pop scene and urged people not to send him votes again. “I’m sick of Czech music,” Řezník said today as disapproving of some of the audience.
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