US rapper YG is in hot water after reportedly prompting female punters at Canberra’s Spilt Milk festival to expose themselves.
Keenon Jackson – better known by his musical moniker YG – kicked off his Australian tour on Friday night with a stop at Melbourne’s Festival Hall. However, the rapper found himself causing controversy on Saturday, with his questionable behaviour at Canberra’s Spilt Milk festival being called out.
As the Canberra Times reports, punters took to social media soon after YG’s appearance on the weekend to criticise his actions, claiming he appealed for female audience members to show their breasts, reportedly stating he would stop the set unless they obliged.
One such audience member was Taylor Jackson, who spoke to the Canberra Times after bringing the issue to Spilt Milk’s attention.
“Halfway through his performance he said: ‘I don’t leave any of my shows without seeing some titties. Everyone get your titties out,'” Ms Jackson explained. “And then he got his team up on stage and they started chanting it and chanting it.”
“He turned around and said: ‘What is that?! Those are mosquito bites.'”
In her post on Facebook, Taylor Jackson explained that YG’s performance was “the worst set I have seen in my life.”
“I am embarrassed that I had to watch this happen, not to mention how so many other people felt having to experience that,” wrote Taylor Jackson in a post on Spilt Milk’s Facebook page. “The worst excuse for a performance, and a downright catastrophic excuse for a human.”
“Honestly, no words for that set.”
Organisers soon responded to Ms Jackson’s post, explaining that, “The comments made by YG on stage were not ok. When this behaviour goes unchallenged, we are part of the problem, not the solution.”
“We thank the courageous people who have voiced their feelings, so this disrespectful and predatory behaviour is exposed for what it is.”
“We apologise that our stage was used in this manner and for not becoming aware sooner,” they continued. “YG’s comments in no way reflect the values of Spilt Milk and contradict our goals of a safe and inclusive space for all attendees.”
“We can not, and will never, control an artist’s performance, but we will continue to focus our bookings on forward thinking artists that share our values.”
hi so last night at spilt milk @YG got a girl to flash her boobs and then went on to say “this bitch got fucking mosquito bite titties” :/ so sexual harassment is okay in front of a crowd then? hmm
— lili (@hot_babe_99) November 18, 2018
Of course, this isn’t the first time that YG has been in hot water over something like this, with the rapper prompting audience members at an all-ages show in Brisbane last year to partake in similar activity.
After realising that many of the 13+ crowd were under the age of 18, he quickly retracted his statement, before asking his audience to promise they’ll go to school the following Monday.
While YG has not responded to any of the criticism of his set, he’s currently set to head over to New Zealand for a show on Wednesday, before returning to Australia to wrap up his tour with shows in Sydney and Brisbane.
Check out more Tweets criticising YG’s behaviour:
https://twitter.com/terrirmcdonald_/status/1064144994766794753
most of the artists at spilt milk were telling the crowds about consent and YG had to be the fuckwit yelling at girls to show their tiddies and kicked off when they didn’t
— bella (@BellasSpot) November 18, 2018
