The 26-year-old rapper's song is forced to be played on radio stations from Donald Trump's winning states during the election.
- Feb 3, 2017
AceShowbiz - YG's "F**k Donald Trump" made headlines again for an unlikely reason. Hackers hijacked radio stations across the United States and forced them to play the rap track on repeat.
According to a now deleted Facebook post of Salem, S.C. radio station Sunny 107.9 WFBS, someone took over the control of their radio's signal on Monday night, January 30, and replaced its usual classic hits with the 26-year-old rapper's diss track against the president. The hackers kept playing the song for about 20 minutes straight.
Jeff Bright, the host of Sunny 107.9 WFBS, later told local TV station WYFF News about what really happened. "They ran from about 7:25 last night until about 7:45, which I then had to turn the radio station completely off in order to be able to stop the system and stop what you were able to hear over the air," said Bright. "[Listeners] have been pretty positive. They understand that this was not our fault, we didn't have any control over this." Bright also tracked the IP address and the hackers turned out to be from Russia and Taiwan.
Bright's radio station was not the only one dealing with the hackers. According to Radio Insight, a lot of radio stations in Texas, Kentucky, California, Washington D.C. and North Carolina were reportedly being affected by the hackers. Accidentally, the radio stations that were affected by the hackers were from the states that played big part in Donald Trump's victory on 2016 election.
Despite the hacking controversy, some radio stations voluntarily played YG's song to express their disappointment towards Trump's win. A Portland radio station played a clean edit of the song every hour on the weekend of the inauguration, while an unregistered pirate station in Seattle has been broadcasting the uncut song non-stop for more than a week.
"F**k Donald Trump" was released last October. The track featuring Nipsey Hussle was the second single off YG's album "Still Brazy". YG once claimed his track was an "anti-fascist gift" for his fans.
