Last February, a Texas rapper by the name Renizance claimed that his anti-President Trump diss song, "Trump Dies," led to a visit from the Secret Service. Now, just about a year later, a Seattle rapper is claiming something very similar happened to him, albeit his visit was spurred by tweets instead an actual diss song.
The rapper, a Somali immigrant by the name Guled Diriye, is a member a local rap group Malitia MaliMob. He performs under the rap moniker Chino’o Capo Gaddafi. For the last few weeks, he's posted Anti-Trump messages to social media while promoting a new track called “Dum Dum.” One the posts includes a Trump doll being lynched.
According to Diriye, these posts are what led the Secret Service to visit his mother's house this past Tuesday (Jan. 30)—without a search warrant.
Diriye says nothing about any his posts were a threatening nature. “I didn’t threaten the president, I didn’t say I was going to kill the president,” Diriye told the Seattle Times on Thursday (Feb. 1).
According to the outlet, one Secret Service left a handwritten note with their name and the number to their line in the Secret Service's field fice. Diriye, who's married with kids, wasn't at his mother's house at the time the search. Despite protests from his mother, who runs a daycare from the house, agents continually asked to be let in to conduct the search. Diriye's sister convinced their mother to let the agents in, reasoning that they hadn't been doing anything they had to hide.
Diriye, who, along with his family fled the terrorism-torn Somalia when he was only 7, said his mom was "terrified" after the Secret Service's visit. He and his family love the country they live in now, so being investigated by the Secret Service was a shock.
Diriye is far from the first rapper to throw shade at President Trump. Cardi B, Snoop Dogg and more poked fun at the president in a skit from the 2018 Grammy Awards. It doesn't feel all that likely they'll be getting any visits from the Secret Service, though.
Take a look at some Diriye anti-Trump posts for yourself below.