Everyone in the integration debate has been busy using [teenage ghetto poet Yahya Hassan’s] lyrical gall to support their own arguments.
The right has cried “we told you so”, and said it exposes a number of problems beneath the surface that no-one wants to speak about.
The left, on the other hand, has welcomed Hassan’s efforts to expose the violence of the ghetto in the language of the people who live there. […]
Hassan, though, is more than just a media phenomenon with a message. […]
He is first and foremost a lyricist. A poet with a new and angry linguistic universe – immigrant Danish – that has been created in the crucible of the ghetto in a big bang of the welfare state, hard knocks, loss of identity and religious hypocrisy.
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