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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World Russian rap song slams officials for Moscow metro blasts AFP - Saturday, April 10 Send IM Story Print MOSCOW (AFP) - – A young Russian rapper has caused controversy with a song about last week's Moscow metro attacks that accuses the country's leadership of lying to the public about the risk of terrorism. In the song, simply titled "March 29 2010" and set to video footage of emergency workers and flowers left by mourners at the scene, rapper Dino MC 47 slams officials -- "insolent fat faces" -- for failing to protect the public. They "tell us from the screen that no one can scare us" while "their children are in London and all their money is in the Cayman Islands," he says. "What should we do, tell us. Where should we run?" In an apparent dig at the power duo of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the rapper asks: "Who is the head of our country? Who will answer for this? Will anyone at all resign?" More than 29,000 people have watched the video to the song on YouTube since it was posted April 2. The song was originally posted as an audio track on the rapper's web site on March 31, two days after the metro suicide bombings. Last Saturday, the Echo of Moscow talk radio station played the track twice on a morning news show. "It gave me shivers down the spine," Nariman, a Muscovite from Dagestan, said during a phone-in on the show. "I think this song is very relevant and very timely." "I really liked this song. I can't calm down after listening to it," said Alexander, 64, from Moscow. The 28-year-old rapper, whose real name is Timur Kuzminykh, told AFP that he recorded the song on the day of the attacks. "I was watching news broadcasts like everyone else. Under the impression, I wrote the song right that day and went to the studio to record it," he said by telephone. "My state of mind was: how much longer can this go on?" "They try to tell us that everything is OK, everything is good, but in fact it isn't at all," he said. "I think it's better to tell the truth. If we are living in a state of war, the citizens have a right to know about it." The song appeals: "Tell us the truth: the suicide bombers and mujahidin are out there" and criticizes the "weak and feeble-minded" authorities for "lying." Liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta praised the song in its blog, saying that, "Practically everything that can be said about the tragic events of March 29 in Moscow can be found here, in this two-minute track." However, some listeners found the song offensive, accusing Dino MC 47 of using a tragedy to raise his profile. "I'm against this. This rapper is creating publicity for himself," Nikolai from Kazan told the Echo of Moscow radio. "It's just another rapper who wants to make his name using other people's blood and grief," a user called Sharik wrote on the radio station's blog. Kuzminykh defended himself against the accusation. "I'm being accused of trying to get publicity from the tragedy," he said. "It goes without saying that I didn't have such an aim." The song makes ironic references to the Russian leaders, saying that "our top leaders with very serious faces tell us that the fight will continue, there will be no talks with terrorists and every single one should be destroyed." After the attacks, in tough rhetoric Medvedev vowed to "find and wipe out" the bombers, while Putin called for security forces to "scrape them out from the bottom of the sewers." The song's video hints at a lack of leadership with a shot of an empty microphone standing on a podium decorated with the Russian Federation's double-headed-eagle emblem. Russian officials have previously tried to cosy up to rappers. In November, Putin appeared on stage at a televised rap contest called "Battle for Respect," where he praised rappers for spreading an anti-drugs message. Kuzminykh's song comes as part of a recent trend for rappers to target officials in outspoken songs. In February, rapper Noize MC posted an angry rap video about a deadly car crash involving the chauffeur-driven Mercedes of a vice-president at oil giant Lukoil, which has been watched more than 130,000 times on YouTube. Kuzminykh said he was aware of the Noize MC track. "There should be more tracks like this, then maybe our bosses wouldn't relax too much," he said. "I do it for the people, I'm with my people." He said he aimed the song primarily at teenagers. "Maybe it will force them to have a think and sharpen up and realize what kind of a country they're living in." 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