Under veckoslutet kom nyheten att nyligen Sverigeaktuella Kevin Gates vid en konsert i Florida sparkade mot en kvinna från scenen. I videoklippet som publicerats i media ses en kvinna rycka tag i Gates shorts varpå han reagerar med ilska och sparkar kvinnan från scenkanten. Gates ska åtalas för “simple battery”. Flickans mamma kommenterade händelsen:

 

“She told me that she was excited to see him and next thing she knows she was kicked in the chest and she was passed out…It pisses me off. I don’t care who you are- an NFL player, just a regular person or a rapper- you don’t come to anybody’s home town and kick anybody- she did not deserve that”

Nu svarar Kevin Gates på vad som förmodas vara händelsen i fråga – med en video/låt betitlad “The Truth”. I texten säger Gates:

“Man in the mirror,  you way outta order / Go to jail, who gonna look out for your daughter? / All in the news ’bout what happened in Florida / Posted on WorldStar on iPhone recorders / She grabbed my dick over and acted, I’m sorry / Two or three times I had already warned her / Edit that part out, I don’t like to argue,” he raps in the opening bars of the song.

“You should have respect for yourself / You a queen and you wasn’t respecting yourself / Ever been disrespected, you know how it felt / You don’t have to like me, go love someone else,”