Rapper Blueface faced backlash for a video he posted earlier this month in which he questioned his son’s sexuality when the six-year-old seemingly failed to show interest in scantily-clad dancers.
According to XXL, the 26-year-old rapper posted the self-shot video on social media on July 6, showing several women in bikinis dancing alongside the child’s mother Jaidyn Alexis, in what is reportedly the couple’s living room. Blueface continues filming as he leaves the room to find his son in a pantry, looking for snacks.
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“Feels like a dream. He’s perfect in every way.”
“It’s booty cheeks out here. You over here looking for chips and Slim Jim’s,” the rapper says to the kid. “You ain’t gay, is you?”
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Blueface repeats the question until his son shakes his head. “My man!” the rapper responds, delightedly high-fiving the six-year-old. “My dawg!”
A follow-up clip shows Blueface’s son and several other young children in an adjoining room. “Y’all sit right here while I go fondle with these young women for a while, alright?” he tells them. The clip, posted by TMZ, then cuts to what appears to be behind-the-scenes footage from Blueface’s “House Arrest” video shoot, showing two women in bikinis writhing on the rapper’s bed while a crew films.
In neither clip does Blueface’s young son appear to be in the same room as the dancers, a fact seemingly confirmed in text messages with the couple’s nanny shared on social media by the rapper’s mother, Karlissa Saffold.
Still, as XXL reports, the clips have led people on social media to question Blueface’s parenting. Some have even accused the rapper of “grooming”—a term that has been frequently used by anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives to falsely imply that members of the LGBTQ+ community are abusers for simply living their lives in the vicinity of children. The accusations were possibly sarcastic and used to draw attention to how, for example, a teacher who reads a book about a penguin with two dads can get accused of grooming while heterosexual parents can sexualize children’s actions and have inappropriate conversations with them and many people see this as normal.
Meanwhile, plenty of Twitter users defended the rapper’s homophobia.
Blueface seemingly responded to the backlash in a July 13 tweet. “Random people online telling me how to parent my MY KIDS makes me laugh,” he wrote.