Shanti Dope’s camp slams PDEA, warns of danger to artistic freedom

THE camp of Shanti Dope enjoined Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Chief Aaron Aquino to listen to the whole song and not take a few lines out of context.

It said that while anyone was “welcome to interpret a song in any cultural text, it is also clear that for an interpretation to be valid, it needs to have basis, and must be within the context of the cultural text as a whole.”