Rapper Vic Mensa under fire for gun reform rally performance

AMERICAN rapper Vic Mensa sang for the star-studded gun control crowd at the March for Our Lives in the US at the weekend, but his performance has attracted attention for all the wrong reasons.

US media reports the popular artist has not only been a gun owner, but was arrested last year in Beverly Hills for carrying a concealed firearm.

Mensa was pulled over by police in February last year for running a stop sign.

He told officers he had a gun in his car and showed them his concealed carry permit, but according to police, the permit was from another state.

He was released on $35,000 bail after spending one night in jail.

In July 2017, according toTMZ, Mensa got two years probation after pleading no contest to carrying a concealed firearm in his car. The police dropped the second count of carrying an unregistered loaded firearm.

Mensa also called out fellow rapper Killer Mike, who supports the Second Amendment, via his Twitter account saying that he wanted to debate him about his views on gun control.

Mensa, who claimed he was a gun reform advocate, performed his song We Can Be Free at the protest in Washington DC on Saturday, where an estimated 600,000 people gathered to fight for gun law reform in light of the Parkland school shooting that resulted in the death of 17 students and staff.

Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian, as well as Kendall Jenner and a bevy of other A-list celebrities were also in attendance at the protest.