YG and the late Nipsey Hussle created one of the definitive protest anthems in 2016 with “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump).” During the 2020 Election, it has only gained in appreciation.
According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data via Billboard, the DJ Swish-produced track (once again) became one of the more popular songs in the country, experiencing a reported 221 percent jump in sales on Election Day (November 3) compared to November 2 while streams increased from 240,000 to 1,050,000, a 338 percent rise.
In 2018, Nipsey broke down how the monumental collaboration with YG came to be. In a conversation with Big Boy on Big Boy’s Neighborhood, he referred to YG as a genius.
“I think protest music is important,” Nip said. “Even how the song came up, we was just in the studio doing a collab mixtape. He asked me, ‘What you think about this Donald Trump shit?’ I’m like, ‘I thought it was a joke!’ I didn’t really think he could secure a Republican endorsement or even win. I didn’t think that was possible. The way the song came out it was really like some movie shit.”
He continued, “He said, ‘I got a beat, what you think?’ He played the beat, started bouncing his head, said the hook and everybody in the studio like, ‘This song? You just saying ‘Fuck Donald Trump’ over and over on the hook.’ It immediately clicked and we knocked it out in one take.”
The song eventually landed on the Compton rapper’s Still Brazy album and peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
YG & Nipsey Hussle's 'FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)' Single Soars To No. 1 On iTunes
As the country continues to celebrate Trump’s projected defeat in the 2020 election, “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)” continues to be played across the country. The anthem even played out during CNN’s coverage of Election 2020, not long after Biden’s victory was announced.
Wait til Biden takes office and see what happens. All the Billionaire rappers backed Trump, or didn’t say ish. Folk hate Trump for his image and stupid comments, not his actions. It’s gonna get bad, frfr.
Nope…it’s for both actually
He has done so many good things you guys are trapped in a bubble, blinded to the truth thats okay you elect a Satanist the agenda will proceed much faster now, whats first Biden? Pick up where dick head obama/bushes left off in the middle east, start some more war give Iran some nukes destroy Israel…
You need to do something about all that salt you’ve been talking in. It’s not good, you’re going to give yourself high blood pressure if you don’t relax and learn to enjoy life and let go of stress.
FDT !!!!
Trump all day, but RIP Nip.
the whole country celebrates his defeat? roughly 50% of americans voted for trump. it was a close call not a landslide.
He lost the popular vote by 5 million votes in a modern presidential race is as close to a landslide as we’ll ever get.
So it sold three copies? Sweet
More than you will ever sell.
You just kicked him in his lil itty bitty teeny tiny microscopic balls lol.
With Trump being the egomaniac he is, you just know this song is driving him and his personality cult crazy lol
I bet that little worm Ben Shapiro cries every time he this haha
Nipsey was worried about an old white man all the way across the country and got killed by his own kind haha smh but “fdt” tho
so you think that the”C.I.A.” is his own kind? you better look deeper~~~ code war coming for the dictator~~~