21 Savage faces backlash after appealing Atlanta to stop Gun Violence

Atlanta-based hitmaker 21 Savage took to Twitter where he appealed to the folks from his city “Atlanta We Have To Do Better put the f—in guns down”. The response to the tweet wasn’t as 21 might have expected as his followers bring up his violent-provoking lyrics.

The lyrics from different songs of 21 were brought up in response to the tweet for example “Pull up to your mama house keep shooting there till somebody dies”, “Spin the block twice like it ain’t nowhere to park”.

Atlanta We Have To Do Better
Put The F****** Guns Down !!!!!

— Saint Laurent Don (@21savage) August 8, 2022

Niggas host one community outreach event and turn into MLK. Y’all niggas gotta learn that you can’t feed corruption to the culture and then think you can clean it up with a food drive in your hood.

— I’m That 🥷🏽 (@YallAintNobody) August 8, 2022

The comments not lying 🤥🤷‍♀️ idk how to help u with this one, I kno u gotta go heart tho and the right mindset…but you shoot at least one person in every song 😂🤣

— Koriander (@ImaGoddessT) August 8, 2022

Bro… you not the person to be sending this message. pic.twitter.com/ZdiTdqQJcR

— Walter Brown (@DowntownBrown98) August 9, 2022

21 Savage addressed the criticism of the above mention of his lyrics by saying “A Song Is For Entertainment It’s Not An Instruction Manual On How To Live Life In Real Life I Give Away A lot Of Money And Spread Financial Literacy To My Community Stop Trying To Make Me 1 Dimensional”

A Song Is For Entertainment It’s Not An Instruction Manual On How To Live Life
In Real Life I Give Away A lot Of Money And Spread Financial Literacy To My Community Stop Trying To Make Me 1 Dimensional

— Saint Laurent Don (@21savage) August 8, 2022

21 Savage made the appeal after several shootings were reported across Metro Atlanta. According to CBS46 one of the shootings involved a 4-year-old who was found shot to death in a car on I-85 in DeKalb County

Meanwhile, there were some fans who also defended Savage’s lyrics by saying “Imagine an actor says something and the comments are like ‘but you were in that movie tho”