“You okay with the guns in the movies and music not those exercising their rights you do not care when black children get shot in Chicago but mad when the cop is just white.”
Rapper Hi-Rez released a video in collaboration with conservative music label Baste Records to release a new song on Friday called "Triggered," speaking on the United State’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The song draws parallels between the push for gun control in the country and historic dictators that enacted genocide and killings against their people like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, all the while images of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, film footage of historic dictators, and video of citizens protecting themselves play on screen.
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View on X"Between me and you I wish we didn’t have guns but we live in a world where we do, if she gon’ have weapons and he gon’ have weapons then I will be damned if I don’t have one too," Hi-Rez raps.
According to the American beat, the song centers around Hi-Rez’s embracement of the Second Amendment, noting the loss of his cousin in the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
"They call me brainwashed, a radical just cause the last couple years I’ve been changing my mind, don’t even turn on the news anymore now a day the media wasting our time."
"You okay with the guns in the movies and music not those exercising their rights you do not care when black children get shot in Chicago but mad when the cop is just white," Hi-Rez raps, spending most of the video with a gun pointed to his head, only taking the gun away toward the end of the video rapping, "I got no love for the government, God the only one I’m trusting."
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