YG scheduled his own Los Angeles protest on Sunday (June 7) at 4 p.m. local time and used the opportunity to shoot a music video for his latest single “Fuck The Police” — and not everybody was feeling it.
Fellow MC Chika called out the Compton native for inopportune timing on Twitter, writing, “shooting a music video while breonna taylor’s killers are still walking the streets is fucking disgusting.”
And she wasn’t alone in her sentiments. Subsequently, YG addressed the criticism in the wee hours of Monday (June 8).
“For anyone out there talking I don’t question your advocacy and don’t think you should question mine,” he wrote. “The real story here is me and Black Lives Matter brought out 50,000 people today to peacefully protest and unite for change.”
YG added, “That is history. That is breaking down these stereotypes on our people & our neighborhoods. All of us protesting are on the same side here..instead of questioning each other’s activism we should be directing that energy at the cops & the government & helping to create the change.
“Stay focused & stop that social media judgement without knowing facts & hurting a cause we all is apart of. We got a real enemy and it ain’t each other!”
YG dropped “Fuck The Police” last week. Produced by Swish and Larry Jayy, the track finds YG “tired of being tired of being tired” after watching another black person die at the hands of a police officer.
“It’s the Ku Klux cops, they on a mission,” he raps in part. “It’s the Ku Klux cops, got hidden agendas/It’s the truth, I won’t stop/Open cases, police already hate me, why not/Make your rich-ass city look like trash/To whoever make the rules, we need answers fast/Oh they mad, fuck it, let’s make ’em mad/Without that badge you’s a bitch and a half.”
Covid-19 is at all these protests like “what it do baybeee”
I seriously don’t know why anyone would want to be black. It’s ridiculous how blacks are the only race to make a criminal out to be a martyr, a hero. It’s laughable. This is why you still see racism, blacks. Other races don’t understand you, and at this point, don’t WANT to understand you. Did he deserve to die? No. Are blacks ignorant, stupid, and turning a blind eye to facts? Yes. This is why there will be a civil war. That’s nice that you have many supporters in the streets, but you must of forgotten about the rest of the country. The other 80 percent that you DON’T see in the streets. Every other race will unite against you. Why? Because your cause is change. Change? What change? What about change for us? Every other race that blacks savagely murder on a daily basis? Everyone seems to forget about statistics. Blacks need to do something about blacks before they ask for change from everyone else. But alas, it is too late. The gears are in motion. Just know, you’re a virus. You turned into a virus for asking for things you don’t deserve. Now we, the people of America, will slap your hand away, throw the shackles on you, and cast you back to oblivion. For we are many.
Preach
You’re not many, you are one. One sad pathetic person who needs to do their own research and not try and pull statistics out your ass. You sure as hell don’t speak for me or America as a whole. Also, Legion… really? What are you, Blackheart from ghost rider? idiot.
Legion speaks the truth and speaks for the people with dignity. Why aren’t these ignorant asses protesting to stop black on black killings? Retired Cpt.David Dorn 77 was killed in cold blood over a TV down in St.Louis. He was trying to talk some sense in these murderous young black men roaming the streets looking to come up. They had no feelings for George Floyd, it was about coming up. Now another young black man is in jail for killing a respectable elderly black man. What’s the sense in that? Ruined his own life, and I bet nobody will ever mention it because it doesn’t fit the narrative of blacks being perpetual victims of police brutality. Look at the culture and figure out who is the real enemy, look in the mirror and you’ll see who needs to step up. The nations cops have been put in an impossible situation just because of a set of bad cops in Minneapolis that were allowed to run wild. Nobody out there stopped them, so blame the politicians as well in the Democrat run shithole of Minnesota.
You’re really going to come on here and talk about dignity? If you had anything remotely close to dignity you wouldn’t go out of your way to spread ignorance and argue on a message board. You literally contradicted yourself in your own statement if you go back and read it again. Educate yourself.
50k? Bullshit. Not that many people showed up.
YG is a fake blood! Mr. toot it and boot it, Mr. patty cakes. The definition of a studio gangsta. Lame!
yeah sure yg. the 50 thousand people came because you said so. what a douche
Ironically its ppl like him who destroyed inner communityes 100xs over.. but noones ready for that serious convo yet clearly
@ change-We need more ppl like you