With men, women and children being gunned down daily around America, Atlanta-based gangsta rapper 21 Savage (who is actually from London, btw) took it upon himself to denounce gun violence on social media, urging his fellow ATLliens to ‘do better’ and put their weapons down.
Meanwhile, here’s a collection of 21 Savage lyrics from over the years…
So yeah, literally all this guy’s songs are based around shooting people to death and glorifying gun violence. In that last lyric he literally says “Put my glock down, that’s a no-no”, which is the exact opposite message of what his Tweet says ffs.
99% of the responses to his Tweet are pointing this out to Savage in no uncertain terms, but does he think he’s being hypocritical? Course not! Here’s how he responded to the criticism:
A valid point for sure, but let’s not pretend like the generation he’s pushing his music to aren’t going to be influenced by his music and glorification of the gun-toting gangsta lifestyle. Is that all negated now that he’s put out one Tweet discouraging gun violence?
When 21 Savage puts out an actual song telling his audience to put the guns down, rather than just a Tweet, then maybe we can take him seriously. The only issue is that it’ll be on an album where the rest of the songs will be about murdering people who look at you the wrong way. Does 21 Savage feel like people won’t like his music unless he’s rapping about shooting/killing folks? Hard to give that up when it’s been a winning formula for him for so many years.
21 Savage further defended himself against the critics with this IG video addressing the hypocrisy claims:
He just doesn’t get it, does he? Guess we shouldn’t expect any Will Smith-style PG raps from 21 Savage anytime soon.
For the funniest 21 Savage memes that came out after it was revealed he was born in the UK, click HERE. He’s never gonna live that one down.
