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Two-Year-Old Gangsta Rap Video Suddenly Spawns Cries Of Racism [VIDEO]

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Over two years after its release, a music video by Compton rapper YG is being called racist by the Chinese.

The video for the song “Meet The Flockers” depicts two robbers breaking into a suburban home and stealing its contents.

The track begins with the lyrics: “First, you find a house and scope it out. Find a Chinese neighborhood, cause they don’t believe in bank accounts.”

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The song was brought to the attention of American Chinese after Fox11 LA aired a segment about the song.

The Fox11 piece references how some American-Chinese groups got the FBI involved; the case was dismissed on First Amendment grounds.

A Chinese site, Sina, spoke out against the video, claiming it is “not only vulgar but also worrying.”

The Sina piece calls for American Chinese to “be resolutely opposed” to the video and to continue fighting for it to be taken off YouTube.

Chinese commenters on YouTube decried the video as “racist” and “promoting crimes.” In some cases, commenters questioned whether the video is representative of the Black Lives Matter group.

Other commenters threaten the rapper with violence, and call for people to “arm ourselves for when the day comes.”

Some suggest that the video “will encourage people to rob Chinese.” However, crimes against Asian Americans are only 4.6 percent of racially-motivated crimes in the U.S. Racial crimes against black Americans account for 54.5 percent of all racially-motivated crimes, and racial crimes against white Americans account for 16.3 percent.

Rapper YG seems to have been left out of the debate, however, only tweeting: “What they saying about me on fox11 news?”

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