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Blueface, a Real Menace

Blueface speaks on stage during the second annual Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., June 24, 2022. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Hollywood Unlocked)

“Thotiana” rapper Blueface shoved a female fan into an enclave of his friends and shouted, “Get her!” at a show on Sunday. In the shocking display of violence, Blueface (Jonathan Porter) proved that imbeciles who rap almost exclusively about picking “it” up, then breaking “that s*** down” don’t have great moral compasses.

An attendee at last night’s concert apparently threw ice at Blueface, at which point the rapper helped her onto the stage only to throw her like a dog to a crowd behind him. One of the rabble-rousers was Blueface’s fiancé, Jaidyn Alexis, who can be seen in a video harassing the ice-thrower.

I mention this here, not because I expect any of you to care about Blueface’s tiffs, but because he has millions of young fans, a global platform, and an impressive deal at Columbia Records. Like it or not, folks like Blueface shift the barometer of culture. 

Blueface has operated his own label for a matter of months now (MILF Music), a label that has some hefty qualifications. The mother-loving rapper only signs women with children: “Your BD [baby daddy] is your only reference that I can use. If he don’t vouch for you, I ain’t f***ing with you. You don’t have to be a rapper. I just need to see star quality in you,” he said. 

The star quality in 18-year-old “MR. TAKE YA B****” rapper Lil Mabu was too good to pass up, so Blueface’s label made an exception to its MILF-only policy. Blueface also signed Jay Cinco, whose hit “Right from Wrong” is prolific: “Put some bread up on his head, we have him dead,” Jay sings. The only two women in Blueface’s clan are his own babies’ mothers, Chrisean Rock and Jaidyn Alexis. Chrisean hopped on a livestream from prison in October to diss Blueface, and Alexis is now happily (?) engaged to the rapper. “This ain’t no publicity stunt tf I’ma marry somebody for clout for that don’t make no dam sense,” Blueface said of Alexis.

“She gone change the culture this what y’all should look up to and advocate for salute my wife,” he also said on Instagram, while quoting a video that praised Jaidyn for not giving in to “whore-ism.” 

Blueface also allegedly beats women, was arrested for investigation of attempted murder for a Las Vegas shooting, and has faced charges for illegal gun possession, assault and battery, and robbery.

There’s a general apprehension in showbiz toward criticizing rappers’ depraved behavior. Culture warriors blast elderly stars for dating 21-year-olds and call out Hollywood sex scandals. Rightfully so. But come on, pop culture — how has Blueface of all people managed to survive for this long?

The rapper seems unbothered by the semi-viral videos of him shoving that woman. He hasn’t yet released a public statement regarding his actions. Blueface has been busy challenging Soulja Boy (crank that) to a fight, after the two sparred on social media this weekend over who was sleeping with whose baby mother. Soulja apparently didn’t show up to their public fight on Sunday, which might explain why Blueface was itching for a brawl.

This is the real world, maybe not the one you and I live in, but the one that kids are exposed to and invested in on social media. For further evidence that depravity online transposes into degenerate behavior in real life, watch Blueface force that woman into a pit of wolves. Notice how many phones filmed the encounter, and how many people intervened.

Haley Strack is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism and a recent graduate of Hillsdale College.
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