Krisztián Horváth, better known by his stage name Krúbi, joked about the hanging of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary at his recent concert at Budapest Park in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, 5 September.
While performing his 2018 song about Prime Minister Orbán and former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, the rapper changed the last few lines, ending with ‘After we hang him, I’ll give a healing kiss to his belly,’ referring to Orbán. Some in the crowd of thousands cheered in response. In the broader context, Krúbi was speaking about the Hungarian people rising up against PM Orbán, seeing him as a ‘juicy treat’ ripe for the taking—a dig at the Prime Minister’s weight.
‘If the Hungarian public has any sense of morality left, then calls for hatred, violence, and murder must be rejected, and those who engage in such behaviour cannot be tolerated in any normal society,’ Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás has reacted to the controversial performance in a Facebook post.
This is not the first time a Hungarian hip hop artist has incorporated hints at violence against the Prime Minister in their performance.
At his concert in Debrecen, Hungary, in July 2025, Péter ‘Majka’ Majoros performed his 2025 single Csurran, Cseppen, a satire of Hungarian politics set in a fictional country. During the performance, he staged a mock assassination of the leader of the fictional country, who is a clear allusion to Prime Minister Orbán. As a result of the backlash, Majka was dismissed as the ambassador to the major Hungarian telecommunications company One Hungary, formerly Vodafone Hungary.
Péter Magyar, the candidate for Prime Minister for the leading opposition TISZA Party, also likes to threaten with ‘retaliation’ against the Fidesz leadership in his campaign. As strange as it is, he, too, has done it in a musical form. When he was asked about his party receiving financial contributions from abroad in November 2024 by a reporter, he started singing about imprisoning Fidesz politicians instead of answering.
Ironically, it is Magyar who is under criminal investigation for throwing the cell phone of a man into the Danube River, after he recorded the candidate at a public nightclub dancing with noticeably much younger women. The prosecution is stalled due to Magyar’s political immunity, which he was granted after winning a seat in the European Parliament in the June 2024 election. In yet another twist of irony, Magyar spoke out against both political immunity and serving as an MEP when he began his political career in early 2025…
Meanwhile, in another controversy about violence in politics, TISZA’s military and defence policy expert Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi is under fire for repeatedly shoving a reporter from the Hungarian political magazine Mandiner, who was trying to ask him about the supposedly planned tax increases by his party.
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