Bay Space rapper and longtime Warriors fan E-40 launched an announcement this weekend denouncing “racial bias” after safety eliminated him from an NBA playoff sport Saturday night time between the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors.
Video footage from the occasion exhibits E-40 interacting courtside with safety guards who proceed to escort him out of Sacramento’s Golden 1 Heart. After the rapper spoke out, the Kings instructed The Occasions the crew takes “these claims critically” and is “investigating the details and circumstances concerning the scenario, as we do anytime an accusation like that is made.”
In an announcement obtained Sunday by the Related Press, E-40 stated that different attendees heckled him all through the sport. The “Selections” artist, whose actual identify is Earl Stevens, added that he engaged with one heckler “in an assertive however well mannered method” earlier than safety kicked him out of the sector.
In a clip shared on Twitter, a number of crowd members may be seen waving and shouting at E-40 as safety guards drive him to depart his courtside seats.
“Sadly, it was yet one more reminder that — regardless of my success and accolades as a musician and entrepreneur — racial bias stays prevalent,” E-40 stated in an announcement.
“Safety noticed a disagreement between a Black man and a white girl and instantly assumed that I used to be at fault.”
