Brussels Rapper Benny B Returns with Powerful Anti-Domestic Violence Album

Rap is par excellence commitment, awareness and denunciation. Benny B tackles in his new title a phenomenon that resists all kinds of awareness: domestic violence. He says he wanted to tackle this issue from a different perspective than what is usually told. "I wanted the text to shock so that people would listen to the lyrics. So I decided to write the text in the first person," he told La Capitale.

"We know the profile of the victim, they are often women, we know there are blows... But very few know the profile of the monster, the aggressor, this man who psychologically and physically abuses women." It is therefore to draw the portrait of the aggressor that the artist has put himself in the skin of the character with this title that shocks. He was inspired by the surge in cases of domestic violence during confinement. He indicated that "I am a monster" aims to confront each aggressor with his portrait. That he be ashamed of it and think about changing his behavior.

For him, whatever its form, domestic violence must be banned and punished with the rigor of the law. "But no excuse justifies blows, injuries and murder. A monster is a monster," the rapper declares. Benny B says he has put all his emotions into this text for the simple fact that violence against women, children and rarely men disgusts him. For him, it is an evil to fight to reverse the trend which has unfortunately widened with the Covid-19 pandemic.