Cowl your ears, President Biden!
A controversial new rap track mocking the chief of the free world has rocketed to the top of the iTunes charts, booting Adele from the No. 1 spot — even after getting banned on YouTube and Instagram for spreading “dangerous false info.”
“Let’s Go Brandon,” launched final week by avowed President Donald Trump supporter Bryson Gray, has been sitting at No. 1 since Sunday, when it refused to meet the lyrical request of Adele’s much-hyped comeback single “Straightforward On Me.” (The Brit pop diva sits at No. 3 behind a random redux of Gray’s hit song by YouTube rapper Loza Alexander.)
The 30-year-old rapper believes his single shot to No. 1 due to the YouTube ban.
“In the event you learn tips for social media websites now, the rules themselves are in opposition to conservatism. You actually can’t have a conservative opinion,” Grey advised The Publish on Wednesday. “Like I can’t say there are solely two genders, or I can’t name any person by what they’re. I’ve to be delusional with them.”
A defiant Grey continued: “Cancel tradition doesn’t work anymore. It solely works on people who find themselves scared … all it does is assist me out. Thanks, YouTube!”
The North Carolina-born musician composed his track earlier this month in response to NBC’s coverage of a NASCAR race in Alabama on Oct. 2. Throughout that occasion, crowds had been heard chanting, “F–ok Joe Biden,” however an NBC anchor insisted they had been truly chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon,” in reference to a win by race automotive driver Brandon Brown.
The incident started trending on Twitter, with conservatives claiming NBC was concerned in a cover-up by refusing to permit any criticism of the president on their community.
Grey quickly started working on his rap, which options the lyrics: “Media lyin’, ignore all of the cryin’/ They buildin’ again higher, however solely the Taliban/ Pilots on strike, however to Joe, it’s irrelevant/ Open the border, lose all of the order.”
Different traces embrace: “Divide us up so that they know that we by no means win/ However we united, we right here within the stadiums/ Everybody chantin’ it, CNN slanderin’/ Biden collapsin’ and Democrats stealin’ it.”
The track additionally calls into query the president’s psychological state with the lyrics: “The one play that Joe can execute is a fumble/ Assume everyone knows he’s out to lunch, that dude went campin.’ “
The rap options musicians Tyson James and Chandler Crump on backing vocals.
In the meantime, the music video for “Let’s Go Brandon” options the rapper clad in a crimson Make America Nice Once more bucket hat and a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Impeach Biden.” In a number of scenes, he additionally clutches an computerized weapon.
Grey’s followers had been left outraged earlier this week when the clip was banned on YouTube and Instagram.
Instagram says the track violates group tips for sharing “dangerous false info” concerning the present COVID-19 pandemic, because it options the traces “Pandemic ain’t actual, they only deliberate it” and “Biden stated the jab cease the unfold, it was lies.”
The track continues to be obtainable on the YouTube Music offshoot, however followers have flooded iTunes, buying the track and sending it hovering to the highest of the charts. Over the weekend, the track outsold Adele’s huge new track, her first new music in six years.
Talking about his YouTube ban, Grey advised The Publish: “In the event you’re going to ban folks, you’ve obtained to stay constant. There’s rap songs on the market about killing folks. On YouTube you’ll be able to speak about homicide, you’ll be able to speak about intercourse, you’ll be able to speak about no matter you need, however I can’t merely query the narrative or I’ll get banned. When did they begin banning artwork?”
Grey appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show Tuesday to debate his incendiary new observe, equally saying folks on the left had been allowed to say no matter they wished with out worry of being censored.
“They will actually do no matter they need,” stated Grey. “In the meantime, we are able to’t even query, make a joke, then we’re banned on platforms if we try this.”
Grey took to Twitter to taunt YouTube after his high-profile media appearance, writing: “They actually let a far proper rap artist get on Glenn beck. What’s going on? That is CRAZY! Thanks YouTube! Thanks for banning my video out of your commie platform!”
Grey was additionally profiled in the New Yorker magazine again in 2019, claiming he used to help Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders — earlier than realizing he was a fan of Trump.
In the meantime, his new observe isn’t the one anti-Biden track to shoot up the charts.
One other observe, additionally titled “Lets Go Brandon,” is now sitting at No. 2 on iTunes. The track was composed by rapper Loza Alexander within the aftermath of the NBC-NASCAR scandal.
“Let’s go Brandon/ You understand what they actually sayin’ although,” the refrain of that track states.
Grey believes the truth that his track shot up the charts alongside Alexander’s observe is proof that the conservative tradition is in ascendance.
“I really feel like that is what’s coming,” he advised The Publish. “I hope report labels are scared. I don’t want a report label. We’re coming and the tradition will change, and I hope they [ the left] are scared.”
Alexander’s track was nonetheless obtainable on YouTube on the time of publication.
