Rapper Busta Rhymes launches anti-mask tirade in resurfaced video on COVID-19 warrants

A video by rapper Busta Rhymes has gone viral showing the 49-year-old star launching an anti-mask tirade amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Busta, real name Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr., started a rant on a show in Missouri in June – which was shared on YouTube at the time – but it didn’t go viral until Tuesday.

In the clip, the hip hop legend spoke out against government mandates for masks that have been put in place over the past year and a half to stem the spread of the pandemic.

“This is my second show in front of human life in the past 15 months. COVID can suck ad ** k, ”he told the public. “All these weird little government policies and mandates suck.”

According to Page Six, Busta was the surprise headliner earlier this summer at Seoul Taco’s 10th anniversary block party in St. Louis, Missouri, where the video was filmed.

The crowd on site can be heard cheering on the rapper as he declares that the mask warrants “take away our civil liberties.”

“It’s called the God-given right to freedom, isn’t it?” ” He shouted. “No human being is supposed to tell you that you can’t even breathe freely. F ** k your mask. ‘

Busta added that he realized that “some of you might all feel differently”, but kept saying “f ** k your mask”.

“We can’t eat food with a fucking mask on,” he said. “We can’t even see each other’s smiles with a mask on.”

“All of that energy is blocked when our mask is on and energy is important,” Busta continued. “We are all conductors of fucking good energy.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone over the age of two who is not fully immunized wear a mask in indoor public places.

For a short time, the CDC said it was okay for fully vaccinated people to go mask-less indoors, however, due to the more contagious Delta variant, it now suggests these people also keep masks on. indoors in places with high transmission.

Despite fans in the crowd cheering Busta’s tirade, many on social media have expressed their disappointment.

‘Busta. People are dying, ”one Twitter user said succinctly.

‘Now I am not going to lie, I hate wearing it but it is really necessary and I am wearing it !!!!! It’s very ignorant to say smh, especially because like they said he has friends who have suffered from it, it’s like a slap, ”added another.

A third said at close range: “He better keep the same energy when he or his loved one is in intensive care, having trouble breathing.”

Several other social media users have pointed out that Busta Rhymes himself has allegedly suffered from a COVID-19 crisis. The Flipmode Squad star has yet to comment on the controversy.