Young Buck released the song “The Get Back” in response to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police. On the track, the G-Unit rapper decries the actions of the officers and says it’s ok to shoot at crooked cops.
“Laying on the roof, waiting on 12 to come through / .223 shells, what the hell they gonna do? / Grippin on the handle, thinking about Philando, I’ma blow out his candles, make ’em out examples,” Young Buck raps.
The song caused controversy and raised the question about whether violence is the answer to the injustices.
Young Buck joins TMZ Live to defend his comments in the song.
“I do feel like just us as people, we do got the right to be able to protect our lives from those crooked police officers that feel like they’ve got the right to take your innocent life Black or White,” he says.
The “Get Buck” rapper says that the violence deserves an equally powerful response.
“At the end of the day, it’s like this, I didn’t even make it to TMZ Live until an innocent life was tooken,” he says. “Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.”
After the two shootings that killed Castile and Sterling, five police officers were killed by a sniper at a demonstration in Dallas. Buck pays his respects to the officers who died, but says there are bigger problems at hand.
“My condolences goes out to the lives that was lost in Dallas, but I do feel like we have a right to protect our lives,” he says. “Look at it this way, for 400 years back and forth, we’ve been having racial issues…If you do follow the rules such as Philando did and do go through those things and you’re put in a position where you feel like this officer is not paying you no attention other than looking outside of whatever this situation may be and you feel like your life is threatened, you do have the right to protect your life and you do have the choice to make that decision.”
When asked about peaceful demonstrations, such as the one put on by The Game and Snoop Dogg, Young Buck acknowledges their work, but believes he is called to another type of action.
“I’m here. I’m in the ghetto,” he says. “My feet is really here. It’s a big difference I feel like. I feel the pain. I bear my own bruises from police brutality. I go through these things on a day-to-day struggle, so my rage is fueled from a whole different kind of fire, my brother. But I do salute everything that Snoop and Game doing. Whatever it takes to get our voice be heard, that’s what I doing.”
Watch TMZ’s interview with Young Buck and listen to “The Get Back” below:
fight da power! stay violent mah niggaz! being violent means how to survive. if you are too peaceful you end rest in peace.
You mean stay in school? Rest in grammar? Was that even English?
This shit is fire
you see the thing that makes this entirely NONcontroversial is that this isn’t about YEAH FUCK COPS LET’S SHOOT EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT EM OUT LOL. he’s rapping exclusively about CROOKED cops.
Every nigga I know who is dumb enough to think violence against cops is the way to go, has been locked up for making bad decisions or/and doing some dumb shit. They have hidden angry towards law enforcement so they somehow reason to themselves that this is OK and the way to do things…
You probably don’t even understand how irresponsible that headline is, do you DX?
black people keep calling for a race/civil war they’re going to lose.
Lmao MARTIAL LAW we anit crazy..
F THE POLICE! LET THEM GUNS OUT BABY! 2ND AMENDMENT BABY
What a dumbass grown man.Young buck is the biggest hypocrite! He glorifies gun violence and selling drugs against his own people–like he cares anything about black people. Yet, I don’t hear anything about black on black violence, but when white people do it, OMG. How stupid.
Tgis is what happens when your friend who is a lawyer tells you, fuck it, you are broke, you don’t have any assets. There is nothing they can sue you for.
And the three guys who listen to this guys music are fine. They aren’t black.
Wonder what Pac would say… Get em Buck 10bodies drops tn hoe
Just make a fake call at a deserted place, wait for them to arrive and empty the clip on them. Buck is right imo. These crooked cops join the sqaud not to protect and serve but to do what the fuck they want, criminal shit.
A lot of people, rappers and artists feel the same way Buck feels only theyre too smart or too cowardly or afraid to tell truthfully how they feel.
White people openly vent their racist opinions so why cant we?
When they do they call it freedom of speech but when we do it they try to prevent us giving our opinion and wanna muzzle us.
For centuries they have done shit like this to us all but when we do it its a (national) disaster. I know this is not the solution and id rather see all of us living in peace, but it will get worse before it can get better.
i will repeat, you cannot win a war of violence with the government. thats not a strategy black folk. play in a game you can win
What’s worst a scared nigga or a dead nigga?
violence against cops will make things much worse for black men in the streets.
Young buck is an idiot.
Wow this guys a moron…hes right in the sense its fucked up considering we go years where over a thousand civilians can get killed and not even 100 cops theres clearly somethiny wrong…there not using the training they were given and its costing people there lives and mothers and fathers there sons its wrong so yea it should be an absolute last resort but if a cop breaches your rights and it seems there ready to do somethinf lethal to ya then fucking right you should be able to take there life before they take yours just if they feel a criminal is threatening them they pull there gun well they threaten us we pull our guns… cause when these cops do these senseless killings you think there in any of a better state of mind than a evil criminal?