Following
comments he made late last week (July 15) regarding the Black
Lives Matter movement and black-on-black crime, Kevin
Gates has posted a series of videos to Instagram, some of which have
since been deleted, in which he salutes the extreme measures taken in Baton
Rogue, Louisiana, his home town.
The posts
have been compiled in the above video, with Gates saying, “I’m not against
black people, I’m not against white people. I stand for what’s right. Bunch of
niggas jumping around hoopin’ and hollerin’ ain’t right. But if we gonna go to
war, let’s go to war, cause I’m gonna go to war for what’s right. My wife, five
months pregnant, pulled out the car by police for no reason, handcuffed in 40
degree weather. And I made a vow to her, ‘bae, that’ll never happen to us
again.
Never in life.'” He continued, saying “How they stood up in Baton Rogue,
I can salute that,” and responded to the notion that he may lose some fans with
this opinion by saying, “I wasn’t made for everybody to like.”
Gates’
main point is that violence and harm toward the black community should receive
equal treatment regardless of who perpetrates it. The rapper himself is from
Baton Rogue so he certainly has proximity to the scenario. Following the death
of Alton Sterling at the hand of a BRPD officer, three officers were killed
over the weekend in the sort of retaliatory measure that most are making a
point not to support.
In his
previous videos, he said, “When you stand for something, you’ve got the stand
for it all the way, not half way,” and “Niggas hate on niggas. Niggas
steal from niggas. Niggas kill niggas. Help your brother, man, don’t hurt
your brother. Fuck you doin’?”
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