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During his set at Rolling Loud Saturday night, YG brought out an unexpected guest: President Donald Trump. Well, kind of.
The rapper closed out his performance at the Los Angeles music festival with a presidential impersonator. The Trump look-alike riffed on Elon Musk and having “street cred” after his assassination attempt. He also parodied the president’s hard-line approach to immigration and oft-derogatory comments about undocumented migrants.
“I love Los Angeles. So many illegals,” the impersonator told the crowd. “You know who you are. More importantly, I know who you are. We’re going to build a beautiful wall. It’s going to be made of solid gold.
“I like rap too,” he continued. “I love rap. As a matter of fact, with my illegal friends, my favorite rap song is ‘Ice Ice Baby.’”
Before he could finish his commentary, YG shoved the impersonator off the stage and kicked off a performance of “FDT,” an expletive-laced track made alongside late rapper Nipsey Hussle that takes aim at the president and has become an anthem for his detractors.
Released amid Trump’s first successful run for president in 2016, the lyrics blast him for being racist and a fraud and beg the American people not to put him in office. Trump was subsequently elected president in 2016 and again in 2024.
YG’s outspoken performance, which featured call-and-response moments with the crowd, comes as the administration ramps up a crackdown on dissent. The president has not yet responded to the performance, but, when it was first released, the rapper told New York magazine that Trump was so spooked he had the Secret Service pressure YG’s record label to omit some of the more brazen lyrics from the final album release.
Rolling Loud featured several other high-profile Hip-Hop performers over the weekend, including Playboi Carti and A$AP Rocky, fresh off his shooting trial. A$AP also offered a political statement, dedicating his set to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires and those targeted by Trump’s fresh immigration crackdown.
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