Video of a children’s birthday party in Louisiana outraged viewers as it filmed children playing with “weapons” and dancing to explicit music.
An “NBA YoungBoy”-themed children’s birthday party in Louisiana went viral online after a video was released showing five boys dancing to the rapper’s explicit music while two of them played with highly realistic weapons and counterfeit money.
A group of fathers and their young sons danced to a song by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a 24-year-old rapper from Louisiana with 11 children.
The group of partygoers celebrated amidst party decorations – including balloons made from champagne bottles, diamonds, wads of cash and very realistic Glocks. It is unclear whether the weapons are actually real weapons.
Parents reacted with outrage to the video, leaving comments like: “This is why the youth and younger generation are messing up now because of people and parents like this.”
An “NBA YoungBoy”-themed children’s birthday party in Louisiana went viral online after a video was released showing five boys dancing to the rapper’s explicit music while two of them played with highly realistic weapons and counterfeit money
The birthday boy’s mother, Devine Brooks, said the party was innocent fun and that the boys just thought they were making a music video
A group of fathers and their young sons danced to a song by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a 24-year-old rapper from Louisiana with 11 children
The birthday boy’s mother defended the party on Instagram – her boys were “well behaved”
Another Instagram user said: “Wow, this is the epitome of ignorance!” This is ridiculously sad and a disgrace. What kind of mother allowed this?! “It’s a loss to even mention your father.”
Someone else said: “NBA YoungBoy doesn’t make music for kids anyway.”
Meanwhile, the birthday boy’s mother, Devine Brooks, said the party was innocent fun and that the boys just thought they were making a music video.
“He wanted an NBA party and he got it,” she said. “My boys are well educated and even play with his soccer team in the national championship!” “It was all fun and they were having fun, they thought they were making a video.”
NBA YoungBoy may be a questionable topic for a little boy’s birthday party – but the rapper recently stated that he plans to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – once his ankle monitor is removed.
The American rapper – whose real name is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden – has eleven children with nine different women – but in January 2023 he married his long-term girlfriend, who is the mother of two of the children.
NBA YoungBoy may be a questionable topic for a little boy’s birthday party – but the rapper recently stated that he plans to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – once his ankle monitor is removed
Devine Brooks – mother of the birthday girl – also mentioned in an Instagram comment that her son shared a birthday with the Louisiana rapper on October 20, further inspiring the party’s theme
Gaulden often raps about guns and money – which likely inspired the birthday party’s finishing touch.
“I made more money, I had to buy more guns to get through the day” and “I just left my show with a dirty gun” are some of the lyrics from his songs.
The rapper was charged with possession of a firearm and was arrested in March 2021 – resulting in a prison sentence before posting $500,000 cash bail. His release was conditional on him being monitored and under house arrest at his home in Utah.
In 2020, the Baton Rouge native was arrested along with 15 others in Louisiana on charges of possession of a Schedule I drug, manufacturing/distributing a Schedule II drug, and manufacturing/distributing a Schedule IV drug.
Devine Brooks – mother of the birthday girl – also mentioned in an Instagram comment that her son shared a birthday with the Louisiana rapper on October 20, further inspiring the party’s theme.
But other users continued to criticize the birthday party despite the mother’s defense. “I don’t normally comment but the fact that the mother here is defending this nonsense is absolutely ridiculous,” one commenter wrote.
Another user said: “If he gets locked up for murder bring this video back.”
Toy guns are increasingly being banned as toys because they supposedly encourage real violence.
The group of partygoers celebrated amidst party decorations – including balloons made from champagne bottles, diamonds, wads of cash and very realistic Glocks. It is unclear whether the weapons are actually real weapons
The rapper was charged with possession of a firearm and was arrested in March 2021 – resulting in a prison sentence before posting $500,000 cash bail. His release was conditional on him being monitored and under house arrest at his home in Utah
In Colorado during the pandemic, a 12-year-old boy was suspended and police were called to his home after he waved a toy gun during a virtual class.
Seventh-grader Isaiah Elliott, a student at Grand Mountain School in Colorado Springs, was taking his virtual art class on Aug. 27 when he briefly held the toy gun.
His mother, Dani Elliott, said her son picked up the neon green toy gun and moved it from one side of his computer screen to the other. It wasn’t until after class that Elliot received an email from her son’s art teacher informing her that she had told the vice principal about the incident.
In 2018, a mother called it “inappropriate” to give a child a toy gun as a birthday present – after her son was given three.
The anonymous woman posted on the British parenting site Mumsnet that she was torn about taking the fake guns away from her seven-year-old because he seemed to enjoy playing with them.
The mother revealed her discomfort with the toys and received a flood of responses in the online community from parents who agreed with her view.
In September, a first-grader in Alabama was suspended after he used his finger as a mock weapon and said “bang bang” while playing with a friend – when school officials forced him to sign a ticket with his clunky name.
Six-year-old Jackson Belcher was forced to sign a Class III violation document for “threatening and intimidation” after he “pointed his fingers at another student” during a light-hearted game of cop-robber-robber at his Jefferson County elementary school had shot.” Alabama.