Human rights activist and Hip-Hop artist, Lupe Fiasco, was asked to leave the stage during his performance at an inauguration party in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, reports Politico.com.
For about 40 minutes, the outspoken Obama critic repeated lyrics from his controversial song, “Words I Never Said,” which include lyrics sharply rebuking the president for his support of Israel’s violent military occupation of Palestine:
“Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist,” Lupe rapped. “Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say s—t. That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either.”
Foreign Policy reporter, Josh Rogin, shared the unexpected development in real time on Twitter:
So Lupe played one anti-war song for 30 min and said he didn’t vote for Obama and eventually was told to move on to the next song.
Josh Rogin @joshrogin Lupe refused to move to the next song so a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go.
Though HyperVocal and StartUp Rock On, the organizers of the event, initially voiced disappointment that Lupe chose their event to make a political statement, they later insisted that he “was NOT kicked off stage for an anti-Obama rant.”
