YG & YouTube Under Fire After Platform Refuses Employee’s Request To Remove ‘Anti-Asian Song’
YG and YouTube are now under fire as the platform refuses an employee’s request to remove the Compton rapper’s 2014 song “Meet The Flockers,” which is being viewed as an “Anti-Asian song.”
While YG’s faced heat for the track after it originally dropped with his ‘My Krazy Life‘ album, the rapper and YouTube are now back in the hot seat as an employee for the streaming service calls to remove the song that allegedly promotes violence against Asians.
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Citing their exception for “educational documentary, scientific, and artistic” (or EDSA content), executives from the platform told their employees, “While EDSA is not a free pass for any content, there are likely thousands of music videos that would otherwise violate policies… were it not for these sorts of EDSA exceptions. Removing this video would have far-reaching implications for other musical content containing similarly violent or offensive lyrics, in genres ranging from rap to rock.”
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