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.
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“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.
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“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:
