Cyrus Langhorne
West Coast rapper YG is making headlines this week after having a music video’s production shut down last weekend.
According to reports, the immediate halt came following gunshots going off Sunday (May 15) during his “Thug” production.
YG and AD were in the middle of filming a rap video in Compton when bullets sent more than 200 people running and ducking … TMZ has learned. Not coincidentally, we’re told there were Bloods and Crips on the set. We’re also told officers found about 30 shell casings from an AK-47 on the ground, and a handgun was recovered. Cops haven’t figured out who owns the gun. YG and his crew were briefly detained before getting released. (TMZ)
Recently, YG talked about police shutting down his “F*ck Donald Trump” music video production.
“We speaking for a lot of people who are not really speaking up or they got nobody in no situation that’s really gonna put it all on the line for they race [and] they culture,” he says. “We feel a similar way everybody else feels. We just took it on the chest. Like, ‘Look, This is what we about to do. We gonna speak on it.’ F*ck whatever consequences and all of that. We gonna deal with it.” (Complex)
Last month, YG and fellow rapper Nipsey Hussle caught heat from police during their music video shoot.
The music video was for their song, “F**k Donald Trump” — so that explains the chants — but LAPD clearly thought things were getting out of control. Witnesses tell us about 100 people fell in behind the rappers while they shot the video Sunday in South L.A. Cops responded in riot gear … and quickly shut down the shoot. Law enforcement sources tell us the officers were responding to a call for cars cruising the streets and the crowd that had gathered to watch. We’re told LAPD had no idea it was a music video shoot. (TMZ)
Video clips from the production set surfaced across social media.
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