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YouTube Said It Will Not Ban YG Song About Robbing Asian People

YouTube refused to remove a song that talks about performing armed robbery in “Chinese neighborhoods” because they “don’t believe in bank accounts.

YouTube sent an email to employees that said the firm found the song — rapper YG’s “Meet the Flockers” — highly offensive and hard to watch, but chose to keep the video up, according to Bloomberg.

The song, which was released in 2014, begins with the line: “First, you find a house and scope it out. Find a Chinese neighborhood, ’cause they don’t believe in bank accounts.

Removing this video would have far-reaching implications for other musical content containing similarly violent or offensive lyrics, in genres ranging from rap to rock,” the letter read

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