Florida rapper XXXTENTACION has become synonymous with wild concert antics, but during a recent show, he took it down a notch to address hate and inequality, which was captured in a video uploaded to Twitter on Monday (June 5).
After playing audio from a hate-filled rant featured in the documentary Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (audio also featured on X’s “RIOT” track), X told the audience he doesn’t care what a person’s race or sexual orientation is.
“Pause it. Pause it. Now listen,” X said. “I don’t give a fuck if you’re black, white, yellow, purple. I don’t give a fuck if you’re gay. I don’t give a fuck if you’re straight. I give a fuck if you’re a person.”
X then encouraged fans in attendance to shout “Fuck the KKK” as he continued to speak on his intolerance for hate, adding that everyone “deserves to have freedom.”
“I stand for equality for all people,” he said. “I don’t give a fuck what you are, where you’re from — a person is a person. And a person deserves to live. And a person has freedom of speech. And a person deserves to have freedom.”
The crowd promptly burst into a “Fuck Donald Trump” chant following his impassioned speech.
X continues his North American tour Tuesday night (June 6) in Los Angeles and heads to San Diego on Wednesday (June 7) before wrapping up in Atlanta on July 1.
Watch the clip above.
This kid keeps showing his hand – did he not go at drake in a hateful way? Kid was bitter AF – can’t take these contradictions seriously
it was the (((Jerry Hellers))) of the industry that made him do it. those people have a sick agenda, nothing less than white genocide.
Fuck the KKK might be the easiest chant to lead and the least ballsy stance to take. Saying what pretty much every human who isn’t in the KKK thinks and not really spreading any kind of important message. Trying to be more important than he is. Thanks captain obvious.
at least he tried to take a chance. what have you done except talk nonsense on a hip hop site? i am not insulting you. i am keeping it real. what have youd one to fight against this BS? i have. i don’t have to talk shit on the Internet. take action against it instead of just discrediting something that was postivie
First, you don’t know me so you don’t know what I’ve done in any aspect of my life, good or bad so you can STFU right there. Second, I’m pointing out that he didn’t really do anything other than state the obvious. Had he done this in an era of time where most ppl in society agreed with the KKK, then it would be significant. But he did it in 2017 where the smallest of minorities share the view of the KKK. It’s like him standing up and saying “the Earth is round!” Most ppl agree, although you have a stupid AF group of ppl who believe otherwise.
Right, it’s like someone standing up against child rapists, lol… it’s like ok, aren’t we ALL against that? What exactly are you proving here? (other than retardation)
Lol please them real redneck crackas would kill this kid in a second.. clown white people if you want. . But every race got killers.. better believe that shit
this isn’t the 1920’s .. why are people so convinced that the kkk is such a force to be reckoned with? They’re nothing but a handful of bible thumping weirdos on welfare lol
FUCK THE KKK
More dudes on stage then in the crowd geez
mmmkay. keepin the past alive is going to get rid of it how?
Yeah I dont get either why black people dont stop saying the N-Word
LOL, I’m sure all 12 remaining KKK members were VERY offended.