New York rapper China Mac is calling out 18-year-old rapper Lil Pump for the lyrics in a new preview of a song which features racist slurs and gestures.
Lil Pump teased fans with a snippet of his new track “Butterfly Doors” on Sunday, but came under fire for the lyrics “they call me Yao Ming cause my eyes real low” as he pulls back his eyes.
After he rapped those lyrics for a second time, Pump comes in with an ad-lib saying “ching chong,” a pejorative term for Asians.
Many fans were offended by that part of the preview in particular, with some netizens demanding an apology.
In response to the preview, Mac posted a video saying he would check Pump for making such remarks, adding that he would correct him for every disrespectful thing the teen rapper says about the Asian community.
Mac demanded that the video should be taken down, but Pump has yet to address the issue.
TMZ reported that Pump’s video has garnered more than 2.5 million views, with Chinese netizens writing “Kiss my ass” and “Why are you so confident about your disgusting songs and gestures? Oh man, I think I need to wash my ears after listening [to] your f***ing words as a great Asian.”
Here are what others are saying on Twitter:
i was gonna say this could be a banger until i heard the ching chong yikes
— ✧･ﾟ ✧･ﾟ (@weeabri) December 17, 2018
You’re done. You’d better apologize to the Chinese.
— wongtzeon (@wangzian_aloe) December 17, 2018
@lilpump racist your Gucci are all made in China China is your father,you understand
— Leslie (@MissyouLeslie_) December 17, 2018
@lilpump ay my guy, love the work, but I’m going to say dropping a song with the lines,
“Call me Yao Ming, cuz my eyes real low (ching chong)”,
probably isn’t the best idea in this climate rn lol. Now you can’t say nobody warned you.
— Jim&I (@MalCumOnYoBitch) December 17, 2018
lil pump’s ching chong adlib is wack. just sounds weird.
just leave the casually racist adlibs to quavo and juicy j, they make it sound much better https://t.co/6YZcs9uZtx
— patrick (@patmahogna) December 17, 2018
Featured Image via Instagram / lilpump (Left), chinamacmusic (Right)
