10,000+ sign petition against Caribbean murder music in France
Activists want Guadeloupe artist’s murder music removed from streaming services
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling on Universal Music France to remove a homophobic song by Admiral T of Guadeloupe from streaming platforms.
Admiral T is infamous for his history of LGBTphobic murder music. Last year, a song by Admiral T entitled “Gwadada” caused a stir on social networks among France’s Caribbean diasporas and LGBT+ communities for its description of homosexuals as one of the scourges of Creole society. In the song, he lists the misfortunes affecting Guadeloupe, including homosexuals, “easy girls,” and “bloody news items that fill the front pages of the local daily newspaper.”
In another lyric translated from Creole, Admiral T explicitly states, “There are plenty of faggots these days, lots of young guys acting like faggots, because there’s money to be made acting like faggots.”
The song was published by Universal Music France on Admiral T’s 2004 album Mozaïk Kréyòl. It is currently available on streaming platforms including Deezer, Spotify, Disc Jockey Music, Qobuz, and YouTube,
Call for Universal Music France to take responsibility
As of this article’s publication date, the petition, launched anonymously on the All-Out platform, had 10,526 signatures calling on the management of Universal Music France to remove the tracks. The petition says its goal is to reach 20,000 signatures.
As the record company holding the rights to the songs, Universal Music France has the power to stop their distribution by removing them from its catalog. The petition notes that Universal Music France has distributed the song for more than 20 years, allowing Admiral T to earn royalties from murder music for two decades. The term “murder music” refers to homophobic songs that often call for gays to be killed.
“In our democracies, it seems unthinkable in 2025 that an artist can continue to enjoy the money generated by listening to a homophobic song, when this is not the first scandal to splatter the West Indian dancehall scene, in terms of homophobia,” said a Caribbean academic who insisted on remaining anonymous because fans of Admiral T are so powerful in the region. “Even if this remains the case in countries such as Jamaica, in France and particularly in the Antilles, in Guadeloupe, ‘murder music’ must stop making money and being economically profitable for artists.”
