YG Partners with BLM for a 50k Person Protest in Hollywood

After cancelling his last protest because he didn’t want people to get hurt following him, rapper, YG, partnered with the Black Lives Matter movement to bring a safe, powerful protest to Hollywood. A week ago, YG had his own protest scheduled in Hollywood, prior to the release of his song “FTP (F*ck The Police)”. He dropped the song earlier than he anticipated said that he had to postpone his protest in fear of it becoming violent. Within a couple of days, the rapper was back with a partnership with BLM and a new date for his march, ensuring that it would be peaceful.

On June 7th, over 50,000 people gathered on the corner of Hollywood and Highland for a peaceful protest in wake of the George Floyd killing. It doesn’t matter if you listen to his music or not, YG has used his massive platform for the good of this country in hopes of enacting necessary change. He shared the results of this protest on Instagram and wrote a paragraph filled with emotion and commentary. It states, 

“For anyone out there talking I don’t question your advocacy and don’t think you should question mine. See you gotta understand that a lot of people out there they see me as a N*gga. They don’t see the black proud man. They see a kid from Bompton and they expect violence. They hear FTP and they think I’m gonna come and burn my city. So we showed up and did it right. We proved them wrong. The real story here is me and Black Lives Matter brought out 50,000 people today to peacefully protest and unite for change. I wanted to document that so when they hear this song and think we are reckless and violent they see a peaceful protest of all different people coming together for a common cause. That is history. That is breaking down these stereotypes on our people and 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 and the government and helping to create the change we want to see. Stay focused and stop that social media judgement without knowing facts and hurting a cause we all a part of. We got a real enemy and it ain’t eachother. On my momma!”

Other artists with similar fanbases need to see this and ask themselves what they are doing to help in these times of extreme hardship. 

By: Christian Cuciniello