Rapper Calls for Gang Hit on Pro-Trumper Kanye West

Rapper Daz Dillinger, of the ’90s-era Tha Dogg Pound hip-hop duo, uploaded a (now deleted) video to Instagram this past weekend, in which he issued a “national alert” to the notorious Crips gang. In the blood-curdling video, he encouraged members of the gang to “f*** Kanye up,” as multiple outlets reported.

The foul-mouthed video also encouraged the gang to “bang on” West — to shoot him.

The move follows Kanye West’s headline-making expressions of support for President Donald Trump and for the conservative young firebrand Candace Owens.

Unpacking the Dillinger call to violence against Kanye West, Fox News host Laura Ingraham of “The Ingraham Angle” noted Tuesday night, “You’re so low because you have the wrong views that you must be not just ridiculed on social media … you must be destroyed. Not just rhetorically, but apparently physically.”

“There is no place for violence in the political discussion,” said attorney Michael Starr Hopkins, a guest on the program. “I don’t think the Crips or the Bloods represent the Left, just like I don’t think white nationalists or neo-Nazis represent the Right,” he continued.

“Black conservatives get ridiculed all the time,” said radio talk-show host Kevin Jackson. “You have to have skin thicker than a rhinoceros … if you’re going to be a black conservative.”

Kanye West’s statements aired by TMZ on Tuesday in which he appeared to characterize slavery as a “choice” blacks made in years past didn’t help matters.

Dillinger on Tuesday posted additional Kanye-related videos for viewing by his 291,000 Instagram followers. In the most recent, posted early in the evening, the rapper said the police had stopped him and were asking him about the Kanye West situation. In the profanity-laced clip, multiple police vehicles and police officers are seen in what appears to be a residential California neighborhood.

Per his statements in the video, Dillinger appears to believe he is in the clear — despite his call for a gang to harm or possibly kill Kanye West.

“[I am] clean as a whistle [expletive deleted],” Dillinger said in the video. “I’m handling business,” he added.

The threatening rapper is indeed “on the radar” of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, TMZ reported early Tuesday morning. A representative had alerted the police on Monday to inquire about whether they were looking into the first video in which Dillinger allegedly called for the hit on Kanye, the outlet also indicated.

A few hours prior to the “clean as a whistle” video, Dillinger posted another expletive-laden video to Instagram, in which he stated that the police had stopped him. It’s unclear whether he was referring to a separate instance.

“I handle business, you know what I’m sayin.'”

In this earlier video, in which he filmed himself walking down the street passing parked police cars, he says that the police “asked me about this Kanye West s***.”

In the (thankfully) short video, one of the very few sentences that did not contain foul language was, ironically, “Luckily, I am blessed.”

At one point, he says, “I handle business, you know what I’m sayin’,” as he leans into the camera to display the “2PAC” on his cap.  He then says, “You [viewers of the video] understand, n*****.” He ends the video with, “Let the smashing and the dashing begin.”

He also references the Kardashians — and asks if “Kris” called the police. He may have been referring to Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner. Kim Kardashian, Kris’ daughter, is married to Kanye West.

Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.

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