Rapper Says the Secret Service Contacted His Record Label After He Released Anti-Trump Song

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Michael Arria
April 26, 2016Election '16

Last month rappers YG and Nipsey Hussle released a music video for the song "FDT", which takes aim at Donald Trump. The track was a blistering lyrical assault on the GOP front-runner. Hussle raps:

Look, Reagan sold coke, Obama sold hope
Donald Trump spent his trust fund money on the vote
I'm from a place where you prolly can't go
Speaking for some people that you prolly ain't know
It's pressure built up and it's prolly gon' blow
And if we say go then they're prolly gon' go
You vote Trump then you're prolly on dope

The video shoot for the song was shutdown by the NYPD after multiple complaints. Asked, by TMZ, if the song had gotten the duo in any further trouble, YG claimed that the secret service had contacted his label asking for a lyric sheet:

“Secret Service hollering at the label. They asked to see the lyrics on my album to see if I’m talking about him on my album cause if I’m talking about him on my album, they gonna try to take it off the shelf...We trying to touch the people. We trying to motivate, get all the young people to vote. Go really take your time out and vote on who should be in office cause it’s important. If not, it could be all bad for us.”

You can watch the video for the song and YG's comments below:

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