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| Scott Morrison deletes tweet of video from parliament set to explicit hip-hop track | |
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| Scott Morrison has deleted a video from his social media accounts after discovering the accompanying hip-hop song contained explicit and derogatory lyrics. | Scott Morrison has deleted a video from his social media accounts after discovering the accompanying hip-hop song contained explicit and derogatory lyrics. |
| The 11-second clip from question time showed MPs raising their hands, set to the 1999 track Be Faithful by American rapper Fatman Scoop. | The 11-second clip from question time showed MPs raising their hands, set to the 1999 track Be Faithful by American rapper Fatman Scoop. |
| The video was synchronised to show MPs raising their hands in response to the lyrics : “You got a hundred dollar bill, get your hands up! You got a fifty dollar bill, get your hands up!” | The video was synchronised to show MPs raising their hands in response to the lyrics : “You got a hundred dollar bill, get your hands up! You got a fifty dollar bill, get your hands up!” |
| hey @ScottMorrisonMP why did you delete this dumbarse tweet pic.twitter.com/0FiTK41UTu | hey @ScottMorrisonMP why did you delete this dumbarse tweet pic.twitter.com/0FiTK41UTu |
| Song lyrics not featured in the video but well known to its devotees include the question “who fuckin’ tonight”, racially explicit terms: “To all my niggas that they hit it from the back / Who want to have sex with no strings attached”. | Song lyrics not featured in the video but well known to its devotees include the question “who fuckin’ tonight”, racially explicit terms: “To all my niggas that they hit it from the back / Who want to have sex with no strings attached”. |
| The use of the song was derided on social media, with Labor parliamentarians particularly critical of the light-hearted video. | The use of the song was derided on social media, with Labor parliamentarians particularly critical of the light-hearted video. |
| Hands up if you think Scott Morrison has become unhinged Honestly, they threw Malcolm out for this nonsense? https://t.co/9sbyvVN7XF | Hands up if you think Scott Morrison has become unhinged Honestly, they threw Malcolm out for this nonsense? https://t.co/9sbyvVN7XF |
| pic.twitter.com/XP1eFMI35M | pic.twitter.com/XP1eFMI35M |
| “The full lyrics of the song used in my earlier video from QT today were just not OK. When I found out, I asked the team to take it down,” Morrison tweeted late on Thursday night. | “The full lyrics of the song used in my earlier video from QT today were just not OK. When I found out, I asked the team to take it down,” Morrison tweeted late on Thursday night. |
| The original social media posts included a personal message from Morrison that “QT was on [fire] today, good work team”. | The original social media posts included a personal message from Morrison that “QT was on [fire] today, good work team”. |
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