YG led a protest over 50,000 people in Hollywood but Chika was disgusted by him filming a music video at the event.
Chika has been at the majority Los Angeles protests following the murder George Floyd, using her platform to promote change and seek justice for the countless people color killed by police violence and racism. She has not been shy about calling out others, either for their lack action at this time or for misusing their platforms. This week, she came for YG after being part the protest.
“YG said he here to shoot a video,” tweeted rapper Chika from the crowd. “I would like to go home. this feels incredibly disingenuous. but im glad people showed up. shooting a music video while breonna taylor’s killers are still walking the streets is fucking disgusting.”
The Hollywood protest has been celebrated as one the largest yet in Los Angeles. However, Chika is criticizing people for coming solely because they saw YG’s name on the flyer.
“You don’t say on a flyer, ‘This is a vigil, bring flowers, bring candles…’ You don’t use this moment to shoot a music video,” she said in a video uploaded to Instagram. “Everything that we’ve been doing march-wise has working because the way that we showed up. The way that we know what we are fighting for, the way that we are informed. This today was not that. If you saw YG’s name on a poster and you showed up because you saw YG’s name on a poster, you’re fucked because the lives lost was not enough to do that for you.”
Do you think YG is wrong for filming a video at the protest?