Police allegedly tell south London bar to stop playing 'John Paul' (Sean Paul) and 'bashman' (bashment)

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The owner of a club in Croydon, London has claimed that the Metropolitan Police are pressuring him to stop playing bashment music because it incites violence.

Dice Bar owner Roy Seda told Noisey that he has been repeatedly told that the genre attracts the “wrong type of clientele” and was sent an email by a licence officer detailing “what this borough finds unacceptable forms of music”.

“The penny dropped after a little while about what they meant when they said ‘change your clientele’. I think we all knew what they meant at that stage.” he added to Noisey. “I like to stay away from saying comments like ‘they’re racist’, but I think the facts speak for themselves.”

Local police are of course experts when it comes to bashment, as seen in minutes taken during a meeting at the station between Seda and officers regarding a recent knife incident at the bar.

According to the Croydon Advertiser, one officer noted how Dice Bar was “not adhering to the music policy” and that they agreed “not to play bashman or John Paul”, which we can only assume to mean Bashment and Sean Paul.