Yasin Plays on Brännbollsyran: "A Whole New Mode for the Genre"

He is a groundbreaking rapper – but also convicted of serious crimes. Now Yasin is doing his first major festival gig in Sweden in several years. The organizers of Brännbollsyran have received strong criticism for the booking. – Yasin has served his sentence and publicly distanced himself from his old life and that has been crucial for us, says Peter Arkhult, organizer of Brännbollsyran.

Yasin's summer of concerts is eagerly awaited by fans, but has also reignited the debate about Swedish "gangster rap". The first on the controversial artist's summer tour is a gig at Brännbollsyran in Umeå on Friday. - We need to be relevant to the visitors in order to have some kind of raison d'être for the target group, says Peter Arkhult at Brännbollsyran.

UMEÅ. Yasin is playing his first gig in nine years at Brännbollsyran. The announcement has been met with debate and criticism from both the police and politicians – but fans seem to think so.