Sanders Campaign: No, We Did Not Play a Homophobic DMX Song That Calls for Murdering LGBT People

Multiple Media Outlets Reported Sanders Rally Played Extremely Anti-LGBT Rap Song That Calls for Murder of ‘Homo Thugs’

Billboard, International Business Times, Politico, The Root, The Source, BET, and many others over the past 24 hours have reported that on Thursday Senator Bernie Sanders took to the stage in Lancaster, California, with a grossly homophobic and transphobic song by rapper DMX playing. That song, “Where the Hood At,” among other things calls for the murder of LGBT people and denounces sex between people of the same-gender.

Here’s one version of the video that many have posted and retweeted:

The New Civil Rights Movement reached out to the Sanders campaign to determine the validity of the video those outlets had used as proof of what would be anti-LGBT insult.

“Senator Sanders did not enter a rally in Lancaster to anything other than thunderous applause from the crowd,” Sanders Campaign National Press Secretary Symone Sanders told The New Civil Rights Movement in an email conversation Saturday afternoon, adding, “DMX is not currently nor anticipated to join our pre-rally playlist.”

The Sanders campaign also provided NCRM with a short clip of the event:

The New Civil Rights Movement also reached out to the person who posted the video with the DMX song, asking for confirmation and proof of its authenticity. We have yet to receive a response.

A portion of the lyrics in the DMX song that are of great concern:

Man, cats don’t know what it’s gonna be
Fuckin with a nigga like me, D-to-the-M-to-the-X
Last I heard, y’all niggas was havin sex, with the same sex
I show no love, to homo thugs
Empty out, reload and throw more slugs
How you gonna explain fucking a man?
Even if we squashed the beef, I ain’t touching ya hand
I don’t bunk with chumps, for those who been to jail
That’s the cat with the Kool-Aid on his lips and pumps
I don’t fuck with niggas that think they broads
Only know how to be one way, that’s the dog
I know how to get down, know how to bite
Bark very little, but I know how to fight
I know how to chase a cat up in the tree
Man, I give y’all niggas the b’iness for fucking with me, is you crazy?!