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==Stop Murder Music campaign== [[File:OutRage! protest.jpg|thumb|150px|2006, OutRage! protesters against killing of [[Iraqi people|Iraqi]] gays]] {{Main|Stop Murder Music}} OutRage! had also campaigned against the anti-gay lyrics of certain [[dancehall]] stars such as [[Buju Banton]], [[Elephant Man (musician)|Elephant Man]], [[Sizzla]], [[Bounty Killer]], [[Beenie Man]], [[Vybz Kartel]], [[Baby Cham]], [[Spragga Benz]], and [[Capleton]], and rap stars such as [[Busta Rhymes]] and [[Eminem]].<ref name=BBC20010208>{{cite news|title=Protesters await Eminem|date=8 February 2001|newspaper=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1159598.stm|quote=Gay rights group OutRage! has been incensed by Eminem's messages and is upset that London nightclub Ministry of Sound is to host an event for him after his gig at the London Arena on Saturday. }}</ref> Sizzla had to cancel concert dates due to the protests of OutRage!<ref name=news_bbc_co_uk2>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3977791.stm|title=Ban threat aborts Sizzla UK tour|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2009-05-03|last=Bishop|first=Tom|date=4 November 2004}} </ref><ref name=BBC20040817>{{cite news |title=Gay protesters lobby record label |date=17 August 2004 |newspaper=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3572616.stm |quote=Gay rights group OutRage! calls on EMI to cancel the contract of 'homophobic' singer Beenie Man.}}</ref> There has been [[Stop Murder Music#Criticism|criticism of this campaign]] from [[Rastafari movement|Rastafarians]], who accused Outrage! of [[racism]] and [[extremism]], saying they have "gone way over the top. Itβs simply racist to put [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Sizzla]] in the same bracket and just shows how far [[Peter Tatchell]] is prepared to go."<ref name="BMC">Alicia Roache, Staff Reporter. {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130113082002/http://www.sosjamaica.org/test/new.asp?ID=1468 "Black Music Council Defends DJ's"]}}, ''The Sunday Gleaner'' (sosjamaica.org). 13/12/2004.</ref>
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