LaRussell is responding to backlash for a song in which he calls Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Adolf Hitler “heaven-sent.”
The 31-year-old rapper issued a response following the backlash of a brief video clip to his social media, seemingly of a recent appearance, performing a song that refers to the aforementioned controversial men.
“[laughing emojis] what do y'all think I'm saying in this song?” he wrote on Sunday (March 15) in response to a critic on X. “Is it the truth that's bothersome or is it what YOU think I'm saying? I'm saying every human was made by God. Even the evil ones. Even the n****s going to hell alongside some of yall uncles, daddies, and favorite rappers.”
In the nearly two-minute clip shared on Saturday (March 14), the Bay Area rapper explained his rationale for performing the now-controversial song.
“The goal of an artist is to express the times and discuss, say all the things that nobody else wanna say or know how to say,” he said.
He then rapped, “I'm not perfect, and neither is the president / What’s guiltier than a n***a hiding evidence? / You can't be mad that they heated if you don't let them vent / Even the devil was heaven-sent / Even Malcolm [X] was heaven-sent, even Martin [Luther King Jr.] was heaven-sent. Even Kanye was heaven-sent / We all have been sent.”
He continued, “Donald too. We all heaven-sent / Epstein too. We all heaven-sent / Adolph too. We all heaven-sent / Even you, we all heaven-sent.”
“MY ENGINEER TOLD ME I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T PUT THIS OUT... THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I PUT THIS OUT,” he captioned the post, along with three laughing emojis.
LaRussell appeared on The Breakfast Club last month to announce that he signed a deal with Roc Nation and said that his signing already opened him up to opportunities that weren’t yet in his reach.
“I now have support beyond just my homies, and somebody who truly believes in what I'm doing, who's already done what I've done to show me the path,” LaRussell said in the video linked above about the Jay-Z-founded company. “I've gotten to a point of so much success independently where I'm from that I lost my guides. I surpassed a lot of people who did what I've done. We've been doing this with no blueprint, no map, no route.”
“‘I'm From the Bay' is going to radio,” he added. “I've never been able to get to radio. It's just a different system. As soon as we agreed like, ‘Man, let's work,’ they were instantly like, ‘We believe in this record, we're willing to take it to radio.’”
In January, LaRussell uploaded photos of himself with Jay-Z to his Instagram account. Days later, it was announced that the 31-year-old would perform at the Super Bowl LX Tailgate Concert outside of Levi’s Stadium on Sunday (Feb. 8).
Although he didn’t share specifics about the deal, he assured The Breakfast Club hosts that he’s “still indie” and that he owns all of his masters.
“All of this is a first, and Hov has been here and done it,” he said on the morning radio show. “So it just gives us a different level of infrastructure.”