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

Billboard, International Business Times, Politico,Â The Root,Â The Source,Â 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. ThatÂ song, â€œWhere the Hood At,â€Â 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:

Here it is, Bernie Sanders coming out to DMX’s “where the hood at” in Lancaster, Ca. #FeelTheBern #BernieSanders pic.twitter.com/3GlVD67BGA â€” Edwin Acuna (@Edwinprime) May 26, 2016

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 CampaignÂ National Press SecretaryÂ Symone Sanders toldÂ 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?!

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