Chandler Crump, the 19-year-old Billboard-charting artist behind "Let’s Go Brandon," argues Biden’s policies harm Black communities while Trump’s benefit them, citing viral songs like I Saw Biden Touching Kids—a critique of alleged inappropriate behavior—and defending Kyle Rittenhouse amid media distortions. He contrasts Rittenhouse’s acquittal with Daryl Brooks’ lenient bail, accusing double standards in portraying Black males as non-villains while demonizing white ones, and warns Gen Z about social media misinformation. Crump shifts focus to music, launching Dark Winter, and plans broader commentary beyond partisanship, aiming to inspire through unfiltered perspectives. [Automatically generated summary]
If you could count it up and tally it up, Joe Biden would be in the negative in terms of points for the black community because he's done so much against us.
But if you look at Trump, he is so much in the positive that it would be almost illogical not to give him another four years.
It would be almost illogical not to secure this election and almost illogical not to say that Trump has done more for the black community than any other president in American history.
If there's any city that's Sin City right now, it is San Francisco with the tents and the poop on the streets.
There is that story going around a few years back with the poop map and it made the city look like the new stripes on the LGBT flag.
Just dirt black.
was bad.
He recently went to number one in multiple categories.
He's featured on iTunes and Billboard, all for Let's Go Brandon.
Chandler, thanks for joining me.
How are you, sir?
So happy to be here.
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
Thank you very much.
You did a new song about Joe Biden being super creepy.
I think it's hilarious.
I think I saw it the day you started promoting it.
And it's a Christmas song, which makes it even funnier, I think.
What made you think about doing this?
Okay, so the full story is I was on a car ride with my dad, and this was maybe a couple weeks after Let's Go Brandon was really taking over the field.
And we were just listening to Christmas music because it's starting to get cold down here in Georgia.
You know, the seasons are always pretty crazy down here.
One day it's warm, one day it's cold.
So we started playing Christmas music, and this one song by the Jackson 5 Canon, where it's like, I saw mommy kissing.
You know, everybody knows that song.
Well, most people know that song.
They know a various version of it.
The version we listen to is by the Jackson 5, and it goes sort of like that.
And when I was younger, I used to always sing over Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson songs, especially when my voice was more in that range.
And so I was sitting there, and I was like, this could be a really cool thing.
Hold on.
And so I was trying to transform the song.
And eventually it ended up as, I saw Biden touching little kids.
It fits perfectly.
It's almost like the song was made to be made about not Santa Claus, not mommy, but Joe Biden and little kids.
I think if this gets to where the other songs are getting, the Bryson songs and the Lozas and Fort and everybody else, this is going to break some brains.
I mean, the other stuff already has damaged people very much so.
They didn't want to put the stuff on Billboard at first, I don't think.
Now they're forced to put it all on there.
And I have a hard time believing that any young person actually likes Joe Biden or is a fan of Joe Biden.
Are your friends in the same age group, the same boat as you?
No, no.
Okay, so that was going to be my question.
Is it liberal kids you're surrounded by?
Yeah, no, it's definitely an interesting balance.
What I see is a bunch of kids who are very anti-Joe Biden.
And in fact, one of the great things about the Let's Go Brandon shit is that it allows kids to get involved in being against their president because obviously a kid wouldn't want to be saying F Joe Biden at their high school or F Joe Biden in front of their parents.
So one of my followers, shortly after the Let's Go Brandon song and phrase went viral, was at their high school and got their entire student section to start cheering Let's Go Brandon at their high school football game.
So we've got a good segment of children who are anti-Biden, you know, all into Let's Go Brandon.
And then the some that are quote unquote supportive aren't really supportive of Biden, but are more so supportive of what, not Biden, but what Kamala and the DNC cabal are controlling Biden to do.
And so obviously, you know, we had the brief transfer of power just a couple days ago.
He's not in control.
That man, that man is not the one doing things in this nation.
And obviously these kids see that and they support the left-wing narrative of what is right for this nation.
So of course they're going to be like, well, I don't really like Biden.
I think he's touching kids.
But you know what?
I'm going to say he's doing a good job.
So we've kind of got, it's segmented like that.
But each day, more and more of those kids that were in that left-wing segment are starting to wake up and say, listen, I used to be all for this type of stuff, but I'm looking at what it's doing in my community.
I'm looking at the various tragedies that are happening in our nation.
And the fact that Dollar Tree is now going to charge $1.25 instead of dollar at Dollar Tree now, maybe I need to get off the whole Biden bandwagon and start saying, let's go, Brandon, with all my friends.
What's it been like for you the last little while?
Obviously, the popularity of the song with you, Bryson and Tyson James is unavoidable at this point.
Now, it's not going to be played on mainstream radio stations, but you go anywhere on the internet and it's been played for the last month, I'd say at least.
What's it been like for you?
Are you still in school?
Do you get reactions from people?
Well, I got to tell you something.
There's actually a little bit of a fact check on that one.
Even DJs who control these radio stations are starting to wake up to what is happening and are now beginning to play Let's Go Brandon on their stations.
In fact, it's actually going to be played on some Sirius XM hip-hop channels very soon.
We have the radio edit mixed and mastered.
It's been sent out and they're starting to sprinkle it into their lineup.
This cultural movement is going even bigger than anybody could have ever imagined.
And it's all thanks to everybody who's listening to this.
All thanks to everybody who has supported, streamed, and bought Let's Go Brandon.
We talked to the charts.
We made a movement.
You made me the world's youngest independent billboard charting artist, all simply off of standing up against the president who is sending our nation to hell.
So I want to say thank you to everybody who's doing that.
And as far as backlash from the people around me, I graduated high school already, so I'm not very worried about that.
And even if I was still in high school, I can tell you that the people will be rocking with me because Generation Z, as much as they want to say, oh, well, I'm left-wing at all, this and that.
Some of them are even saying, let's go, Brandon.
They would be willing to stand with me and say, listen, I don't necessarily agree with you, but I think the song's fire.
I don't agree with you, but I don't really like Biden either.
So I'm going to march with you.
I'm going to wrap the lyrics with you, and I'm going to say, let's go, Brandon.
See, that was a problem I saw in the past where I knew somebody had to start doing more political music.
And even crossing over with people like Bryson, where he's a really Christian guy, the Christian music wasn't good.
But now there's this crossover that's happening.
Where it wasn't good or it wasn't real.
Because we had artists like LeCrae who make objectively good music, but aren't very faithful to their values.
Yeah, it was sort of just like a bit they had or the smallest base level of Christianity they could pass off.
But now we're at a point where almost every song that comes out from you guys, and I say that it was a small group of like you, Patriot Jay, and Bryson and Tyson James, almost every song is really good.
And it's undeniable at this point.
You can't just say, well, it's a political rap.
It's good.
Like, I just listened to it along with the rest of my stuff.
So, I don't know.
I digress.
I think it's really cool that it's going to be on Sirius like that.
I know one of the guys here in the back is always listening to Sirius, so it'll be good.
I want to talk to you about Kyle Rittenhouse, of course.
You guys are around the same age.
He just got acquitted.
And I want to focus on what the media said about him because there was so much lying that was going on in that case from the media.
A year they went on saying his gun was legal.
A year people still thought on the day of that he killed black people.
Does what the media portrayed about him, does that scare you at all in regards to how much people would believe anything negative about you, maybe for yourself in the future?
Yeah, I definitely think the Sean King race hustlers of the world are finally taking control, so much so to the fact that even a white kid killing other white people is in fact oppressive to black people.
And those white people, even though they're making murals and paintings and they're starting to build statues out of pedophiles and white beaters, they're being considered the oppressed of this nation.
I think it's disgusting.
The media's assault on Kyle Rittenhouse was bad for them, objectively bad for them, because it was great for their narrative.
But Kyle Rittenhouse is about to be the youngest person about the age of 18 after everything he's going through and all these lawsuits he's about to file.
I tweeted something today.
At the age of 17, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed a pedophile.
And at the age of 18, he's about to sue one.
And of course, I can't say I actually believe Joe Biden is a pedophile, but I do have a song about it.
And Kyle Rittenhouse is about to sue Joe Biden.
So on the bright side, nothing I say is false.
But either way, I definitely think the media and everybody that said things about Kyle Rittenhouse are about to eat their words, just like those people who were trying to kill Kyle Rittenhouse ate his bullets.
But either way, I'll try not to get too controversial with this.
It's pretty crazy to see what's happening.
And I think it's going to be a really good strike back moment for him.
No, don't worry.
As long as it's not about vaccines, we can air it all.
How much negative, have you gotten negative attention or negative stuff written about you from the Let's Go Brandon song?
Oh, yeah.
There was this big guy, big article that came out which said, this moronic song, this moronic anti-Biden, anti-vax song has temporarily knocked Adele off the number one spot, but she'll be back up by tomorrow.
A week went by.
She was knocked back.
A week and a half went by.
She was not back.
It was only when they started to start swapping the numbers and all the weird things.
And we can probably talk about that another time.
But a lot of weirdness that started happening with the numbers that Let's Go Brandon finally fell and Adele made her way back up to the top.
And now she's even beating Taylor Swift and all that.
And she just released an album.
So it's a lot of weirdness happening with Adele.
But either way, it's pretty insane that there was all this negative press about it.
But we were the ones still standing on top.
We were the ones still able to say, yeah, we beat Adele.
We're on the billboard charts.
We stood up against every other narrative.
We stood up against every person who said we couldn't do it.
And we made history.
How are you handling this amount of attention that you're getting?
I know when a leftist celebrity gets this much attention online, it's boo-hoo, woe is me, or all these people are fueling hate, a hate campaign against such and such.
Is it changing your life at all?
Is there a lot of jealousy?
Is there a lot of better extra attention?
How do you feel about it all?
No, definitely not.
I mean, I've been involved in the political scene for three years now.
So this whole music thing, though it's new to me, isn't really new to me because I've had people clamoring and saying mean things to me for years now.
I've had people call me all sorts of racial slurs just for having my opinion.
I've had racist white liberals say all sorts of things and call me the most terrible words you can imagine a white person would even say and consider saying to a black person considering they call themselves so anti-racist and so tolerant.
But either way, it isn't really new to me.
But as far as music goes, I'm really happy with it.
You know, a lot of people said some very nice things about my music on that song, my verse on that song.
Even some leftists who said, you know, I disagree with everything this kid says, but he's got bars.
He's got flow.
That warms my heart to hear.
So I think music is definitely one of those foundational cultural silos that people can look past politics, at least at some points and say, listen, it sounds good.
Like for instance, we're always calling out Lil Nas X and all these different artists, but I'll say Lil Nas X music is great.
It just stands for things I don't agree with.
And so I'm going to say, your music is great, but I'm going to beat you because my message is better.
I think my music can be better.
I'm going to strive to make better music.
And I think as far as with the new attention, I want to make better music.
Like I released an album about a month or two before the, about a month before the Let's Go Brandon song came out.
And so now that the song is getting out there and popular, I'm trying to encourage as many people as possible to listen to my album, Dark Winter.
And I have the CD for it right here, the cover.
This is my album right here.
This is my album.
Am I holding it upside down yet?
Dark Winter.
It's available on all streaming services.
I want people to listen to this.
This is my project.
This is what we're doing.
This is the culture.
And that's why I'm releasing new music.
And I have this Christmas song out called I Saw Biden Touching Kids.
This is how we're going to take back the culture because people see an album with Biden burning the cover as the, as the front, with Biden burning the flag as the front cover on the charts, or a song called I Saw Biden Touching Kids, or a song called Let's Go Brandon on the Tarts.
They're going to think, well, hey, I agree with all those statements.
I agree with those sentiments.
How is this becoming this popular?
How is it on the charts?
Let me contribute something.
Let me buy this song.
Let me buy this album.
Let me get out there and say, this is what I agree with.
This is my culture.
This is where we stand and plant our flag in the ground and say we won.
What do you think is going to happen if they start losing the music industry?
It's obviously much more of a level playing field now.
But you see Adele on there.
Ed Sheeran was also passed.
I can't remember some of the other names I saw, but if they don't have that with millions upon millions of dollars behind them and, you know, the whole music machine and MTV and BET, if they don't have that behind them, like you guys don't, and they're still losing, where do you think that pushes them?
Oh, the labels are going to get so mad, and they're going to look at us and they're going to offer us as much money as they want.
I mean, they've already started to reach out to various artists in this movement and have been in talks with some of the big let's go branding creators about getting them on labels.
And it's like, we are an independent movement.
You can do whatever you want, but you cannot put us back on those chains like Joe Biden said he'd do.
And I mentioned that in a new song actually that just came out called CWA.
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He literally said that they're going to put the Republicans are going to put us back in chains.
That doesn't make sense.
But either way, I digress.
Their movement wants to shut us down.
We're not going to let them shut us down, though.
And that's why there's so many artists standing up and getting out there and being as honest as they can about what they believe.
And I'm so proud of it, honestly.
So much stuff going on lately.
Have you been paying attention to the Wisconsin thing?
It seems like it's already old now.
Have you been following that?
Yeah, I've been following it closely.
I took a little bit of time just to wait and see what it was all about because I wanted some more information to come out on the story.
But as unfortunate as you could imagine, there are people dying.
There are children who are injured, children who are in critical condition, all because one man who we don't know if he had any political inclinations for that attack, but we do know that he was anti-Trump, that he released a song condemning white supremacy, and that he was released from jail the same day that Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty.
So obviously he had some sort of issue with the justice system.
And if I'm going to grasp at straws and reach here, you could easily put one and two together and say this was a politically motivated attack on not only, you know, the legal system, but I guess he connected that to Christianity and this Christmas parade.
It's disgusting to say the least.
And I hate what it is.
And I hope that we get more information about this attack.
Hope we get more information on who this guy is.
And I hope he pays for his crimes this time because he did so many.
He had five different charges that he was in jail for and was released only on a $1,000 bail.
Meanwhile, the people who peacefully protested in the Capitol nearly a year ago, yes, nearly a year ago, that's how fast time is going.
It is nearly a year ago now, are still sitting and rotting in solitary confinement as political prisoners of Nancy Pelosi and her band of treasonous misfits.
It doesn't make sense.
It's really odd to me to see how much they it seems like they don't want to share the guy's name, which is Daryl Brooks.
And especially in the Twitter moments, you can scroll and you don't see his name mentioned.
Have you noticed that?
Yeah, I've definitely seen that.
They always call it the perpetrator of the Christmas parade massacre or something like that.
Why did you say his name?
Yeah.
On August 25th, 2020, the name that was trending highest on the Twitter tab was Kyle Rittenhouse.
We knew his name within hours.
We knew his name within hours.
Meanwhile, we know Daryl Brooks' name, but not enough people know it.
Not enough people.
The lie is making its way around the globe while the truth is still getting out of bed and putting his shoes on.
And that's not fair.
That's not a good thing that nobody knows this guy's name.
And you look at the different identities of the people, it makes complete sense.
You don't want to villainize a black male.
You want to weaken a black male.
You want to turn him into something that you can use as a pawn.
And I'd say, I'd argue that's what they did with Daryl Brooks.
But you want to villainize a white male as much as you can because they realize that it's a lot more difficult to control that branch of people because they're willing to take up arms and march for their city and protect themselves and their community like Kyle Rittenhouse had to unfortunately do on August 25th.
But this Daryl Brooks guy, he wasn't defending anything.
He wasn't defending anybody.
He was defending his ego.
That's what he was doing.
And that's why he ran those people down.
And it's very unfortunate he did that.
But they don't want that.
They don't want that story to get out there.
And so that's why they refuse to share his name.
So do you think there's a pattern then?
And what I wrote down was corporate media sort of defending the side of criminality if they can't use it for a political gain.
Yeah, no, that's exactly it.
And something that something I've said many, many times over during this whole Kyle Rittenhouse trial is that it's going to start a very unfortunate cycle of somebody going to or, okay, so something unfortunate happening in the news.
And so like Jacob Blake being shot and paralyzed.
That was an unfortunate thing.
So then riots start happening.
Then we have your perpetrator, quote unquote.
So your Kyle Rittenhouse gets out on the street.
And then unfortunate things happen.
Belligerent Black Lives Matter antifa pedophiles like Joseph Rosenbaum and everybody else who was involved start attacking this person.
And unfortunately, the Kyle Rittenhouse of the situation has to defend himself.
Now, whether he lives or not, there are still going to be ramifications for that.
There's going to be more riots, more legal proceedings, and the cycle starts all over again.
So now we have Daryl Brooks, who isn't necessarily in the same position as Kyle Rittenhouse, but it is starting more and more outrage.
But although this is where the cycle gets a little bit different, because when it comes to our side, Daryl Brooks killed, and I can't even necessarily say our people, but peaceful people.
He killed peaceful people, unlike Joseph Rosenbaum and his band of misfits.
What's happening in Wisconsin, though, in that city, Waukesha, I believe is how it's pronounced, or Wakusha, they are lighting candles.
They are having vigils.
They are praying for the families and praying for the people and their souls who are lost.
That is what happens when peaceful people die.
But when violent people die, there's more riots.
There's more hate.
There's more pain in the media.
That doesn't make sense.
Along the same lines of what we were talking about, about the fake news narratives and everything, and your age group, do you still see social media as the primary news source for your age group?
Are they recognizing a massive slant in it?
What do you think about that?
I wouldn't say it's the primary source.
I'd say it's the sole source.
Like that's where, and even myself, that's where I learned about most news stories is scrolling through Twitter.
Now, usually it links back to a reputable news site or a news site, not necessarily reputable, but that's where most kids learn things.
But I'm not the average child.
A lot of average children in this generation learn their news from Instagram with somebody already giving their opinion.
So for instance, after this whole Kyle Rittenhouse trial, what they would see on Instagram is white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse ruled not guilty after killing three Black Lives Matter protesters.
Now, if you just read that headline, you'd think, wow, this white supremacist killed three black people and got set free.
Meanwhile, the real story is none of them were black.
And it wasn't even three.
I misquoted it there.
But two people, two people who were both criminals, one of them a pedophile, the other one, a violent person who beat women.
And then another person who was pointing a gun at somebody who got shot.
It's insanity that that story is being shared out there in such a way like that.
It's a lot of fake news.
And that is what's curing and causing a lot of the sort of emotionality that comes with all this news.
And so that's why so many people are so angry about the whole Kyle Rittenhouse trial because they are misinformed.
They are misled.
They don't know what the truth is when it comes to this.
And that's why there's all these comments that are saying, oh, well, if you actually watched a second of the trial, you'd realize the prosecutors were dumb.
Kyle Rittenhouse killed people in self-defense and he injured people in self-defense and he did what he had to do to survive and defend his community.
But they don't know that truth.
And that's what's very unfortunate about all this that so many kids in our generation, and when I say our, that so many younger people in Gen Z are informed not by reputable news sources, but are informed by opinions.
What are you talking about?
I'm 19.
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Don't be crazy.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
No, I'm not.
Being so involved in it, would you ever just recommend that young people just not pay attention to the news, or is there a certain level that they need to be involved with?
No, I think everybody needs to be involved.
And of course, you have to balance it with how much you can actually handle that much because I could tell you.
And I'm a very, I'd say I'm a very fortified personality when it comes to all sorts of things.
I talk about all sorts of political topics.
I breathe.
I live and breathe politics.
I talk about it constantly, mostly so that most other people don't have to.
But I want people to be engaged.
I want people to be informed, but it's easy to get caught up in emotions.
Like, I don't often get emotional about things, but when I was watching the Kyle Rainhouse trial, I was on the edge of my seat because it felt like me.
It was right in my heart, right in my soul.
I felt Kyle, and it was unfortunate.
And I can only imagine it's so much more like that for every other person who's tuned into these different trials or tuned into things that are happening online.
And their heart just goes out and they cry, they sob, they weep, they feel the pain of what happens.
And so, I'd say, balance it as much as you can with your life, but be informed, be involved.
Your voice matters, your vote matters.
You can take political action.
On January 4th, I was door knocking in Atlanta, Georgia, for senatorial candidates here.
And of course, neither of them won, and they would later go on to turn their backs on the people of Georgia.
But either way, I was out there, I was taking action.
You don't have to be 100% into politics and crying every day to get out there and take action.
You just need to know what you believe in, know who you support, do the research, take the time, and find yourself on the hill and march for what you believe in.
That's what I think it is.
And so, when it comes to young people, I'd say it all applies the exact same for you.
For the high schoolers, high schoolers, and college students who are watching, get involved in politics, possibly start your own chapter of a conservative organization.
Or at the very least, if you don't want to do that much, just stay informed, stay involved, and don't let the fake news opinions bring you down because it's easy.
It's very easy for that to happen.
I've been fooled by fake news before myself, and it's very easy to fall into.
So, you got to do your best, delineate false from reality, and just get out there.
Last sort of question for you, Chandler.
I think you're in a very unique position, being your age and your, you know, your stature in social media and music.
What's your sort of plan?
Do you have one going forward?
Do you want to try to go get a degree in something?
Do you want to slip into this commentator role or more musicians role?
Do you want to do all of it?
Do you have a plan yet, young man?
I demand to know.
You could have just said, Chandler, what do you want to be when you grow up?
That could have been like a three, a three-second-long listen.
Um, I'm definitely not very interested in college right now.
I know there are a few colleges who would love to have me, but I'm not so interested in that right now.
Um, definitely want to work a lot more on the music.
Music is a very new thing for me.
I've always really loved music, but I didn't know I could create music until about a year ago.
So, just honing that craft, there's definitely a lot more coming very soon.
You guys have not heard the last of Chandler Crump when it comes to music, but I also love really talking about politics, political commentary, and more so being read up on things.
And so, I think those two paths are really what I want to stick with.
I want to talk about politics.
I want to make music about politics, but I also want to start making more music, not necessarily about politics, but about life, about what it means to be a human, what it means to be a good citizen, what it means to live on this earth.
And I think I want to expand my commentary not just to be about politics or culture, but to talk about life in general.
I want to talk about all sorts of things.
I'd say I have some pretty good opinions on things, and I want to pass that along to as many people as possible so that they can see things my way and perhaps maybe help themselves with their lives.
I think I can be an inspiring and a motivational voice, not just because I'm young, not just because I'm 17, or not just because I'm black, but because I can see things and I can see things in people, and I want to inspire as much as I can.
So, definitely sort of branching out in those ways, but sticking with music, talking.
I think those are things I'm good at personally.
So, sticking with those, expanding, and reaching as many people as I can are what I consider to be my goals.
I'm gonna write that down: DNC Intern Program and performing at the next presidential anointing ceremony like Jay-Z and Beyonce did for Hillary Clinton.
I could do that.
Oh, yeah.
Remember that concert that nobody went to?
It was a free concert for Hillary by Jay-Z.
Only in that time could Jay-Z hold a free concert and no one comes because it's for Hillary.
What a time to be alive.
Any closing words for you, Chandler?
Once again, I want to give a big thanks to everybody who's been supporting me with Let's Go Brandon.
I definitely want to inspire you guys.
Definitely make sure you check out the Dark Winter album available on all streaming services.
And also, check out our merchandise.
I want to get up and show you guys this real quick.
It's my shirt of my song.
Obviously, you don't want to say the words on, you know, the Rebel.
Oh, actually, Rebel is in there, which is funny, but I don't want to say the words because I lose.
I respect.
Yeah, so check out my new song, Vax Rebel.
Remix coming very soon.
Also, check out the merch.
Go to channelcrump.com to check out all things me.
Definitely make sure you follow me on telegram at t.me/slash real c-r-u-m-p.