Almost parallel to the political earthquake caused by Iñigo Errejón, another earthquake has shaken music due to a series of accusations leveled against rappers. Ajax and Prok on an Instagram profile, where several (many, more than sixty) women have claimed to have been victims of abuse, harassment and sexual assault committed by Granada artists.
The testimonies often coincide in drug use and always conclude with sexual assault, if not rape, and ill-treatment. «I approached him, and damn the time I did it, to tell him that I really liked his music. Immediately, he invited me for a drink and started talking to me. “I idolized him, so I thought: how lucky he noticed me,” one of them begins.
«When a while passed I began to feel strange, my body did not respond and I told him that I felt bad. He told me to accompany him to his friends’ car, who were outside, so he could get some fresh air. When we left, I don’t know when, there was no car, and I found myself alone with him in the middle of an open field. When I saw myself there, unable to ask for help, I blocked myself, He started kissing me like a beast and made several wounds in my mouth. and he put his hand down my pants. At that moment, a friend of mine, my savior, found me and took me out of there, otherwise I don’t know what would have become of me. “I was bleeding from the mouth and from my intimate areas for more than a week, not to mention the trauma I went through afterwards.”
An ex-girlfriend of Prok has spoken publicly on TikTok to support the alleged victims, acknowledging that when she went out with him “she had the feeling of being with a demon.” «The worst thing that I have been able to experience is not in those stories, it is not even twenty percent. I believe what all the victims say, every story in that account. I don’t have the slightest doubt, none. The main reason «for telling it now» is so that they do not take advantage of their fame« to be with »little girls who have not even begun to live. Very, very young girls. I knew who he was with. I have been annulled, not deceived. It was very difficult for me to leave because it is difficult to recognize oneself as a victim. And it’s hard to talk about it because it’s reopening wounds.”
After this barrage of complaints, The rappers defended themselves with a statement which said: «A few days ago an account was opened in which we are defamed without any limit. Very big nonsense has been said and we did not know how to raise this issue, but obviously we want to deny everything that has been said. People who have known us for more than 10 years know what kind of people we are. “We are good people and committed to all social causes without exception.”
However, after the enormous controversy generated on social networks, the cancellation of their concert at the Wizink Center on March 28which could now be followed by more performances on a tour that was scheduled for next year. Last weekend, the Almeria festival ‘Siente el rap’, which had Prok on its line-up on December 7, also announced its cancellation. «Due to recent circumstances and the numerous requests received, we made the decision to suspend the Siente el Rap Festival. This measure has been adopted with responsibility and commitment, always prioritizing the well-being of all those involved,” says the statement from its organizers.
In the last few hours, one of the brothers has published a video in which he says: «Hello family, I’m Ajax, I wanted to talk about what has happened these two weeks at once. You know that I am a person who speaks openly, who speaks in silver, if necessary I will sing a song like ‘El circo’ or whatever, but I will not shut up. So, I know that many of you have been surprised that these two weeks I haven’t said anything and even deactivated Instagram. If I have done so it is on the advice of my lawyer. If it were up to me, I would have spoken from the second one. And now I’m going to speak. All of this is not only lies and nonsense, it is crazy and cruel and what they are doing to us. An old-fashioned witch hunt, without having to provide evidence, testimonies, anonymous letters that anyone may have written. And as it says in the statement, I want to deny it on behalf of myself and my brother.
The video ends with Ajax saying “an obvious thing too, which seems to me to be not so obvious. I am Ajax and my brother is Prok, we are not the same person. I know this breaks your head, but we are not a pack. Okay? And if I make this video, among other things, it is also because an article came out by one of my brother’s exes talking about my brother. However, I appear on the cover. The rapper says goodbye by assuring that the nature of certain testimonies makes him think that there is someone “behind all this” who wants to play the game since very intimate things have been told that very few people know, and that he can even guess who it is.
But for now, the rappers are left alone: their representation agency Taste The Floor has suspended all employment and artistic ties with the artists in the face of these serious accusations.
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