LaRussell’s mother, Yvette McDonald, hosted a rally to show support for her son following his controversial song that called Jeffrey Epstein and Adolf Hitler “heaven-sent,” and it inspired some hilarious reactions on social media.
In a video circulating on social media, people were seen gathering in Vallejo, California, to show support for LaRussell. “His mom told us to come out here,” said one of the attendees in the video. “He said everybody was created by the same hands, which were God’s, but they didn’t wanna hear Epstein or Jeffrey Dahmer, or any of those people. So that’s why they’re angry, but you know I know the word.”
Another attendee said that she was there to show support, and that the “internet is not a real place.” She said the support shown during the rally showed that the love for LaRussell is “real.” Speaking to the supporters, LaRussell’s mother stressed that he was expressing his right to freedom of speech.
When the 31-year-old rapper released the track, he rightfully got some pushback on social media. On the track, he rapped that he wasn’t “perfect,” and that the devil was “heaven-sent.” He then listed a bunch of other notable figures, including Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Kanye West, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Adolf Hitler. On the song, he said that everyone was “heaven-sent,” but his decision to include controversial, hateful, and straight-up evil figures alongside civil rights icons drew criticism.
Before he dropped the song, he said that his engineer told him that he “probably shouldn’t” release it. “What do y'all think I'm saying in this song?” he wrote in a response to the criticism earlier this month. “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 y’all uncles, daddies, and favorite rappers.”
In what he said would be his “final defense” of the track, he said the “selective outrage and fake righteousness” was a “joke,” and that people have been “complicit in supporting serial killers, murderers, drug dealers, pimps” for years. “If you gone be outraged be outraged about it all!” he wrote. “Turn the murder music off and every other detrimental form of art you consume! I’m one of the few n***as in this shit smiling and putting good into the eco system!”
In response to the backlash, LaRussell ultimately deactivated his social media accounts. Check out some of the reactions to the rally below.
