Staunch alt-right rapper Forgiato Blow is topping iTunes charts with his new song, “Boycott Target,” but claims Apple’s censorship is “keeping it off the radar.”
The song — featuring fellow rappers Jimmy Levy, Nick Nittoli and Stoney Dudebro — was released on May 25 in response to Target’s Pride-themed clothing for children.
The song’s lyrics address an LGBTQ “agenda” that the rapper sings has gone “too far” — and has caused the discount retailer to lose $10 billion in the past 10 days.
“Attention all shoppers, there’s a clean up on every aisle. Target is targeting your kids,” Blow says in the track’s opening line.
Since Blow posted the “Boycott Target” music video to his “Mayor of Magaville” YouTube channel on Friday, it has amassed nearly 250,000 views.
The video has more than 4.4 million on Blow’s Twitter account, where he’s been tracking the song’s climb up iTunes’ ranks and shares other videos bashing Target’s “PRIDE” collection.
The track has hit No. 1 on iTunes’ most popular chart across all genres, and sits above songs by Taylor Swift and Luke Combs that are in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively.
Blow, however, told Fox he’s still facing censorship.
“It’s shadow-banned all over the world right now,” Blow said.
Shadow-banning is when a user’s content is blocked from part or all of a social media site.
It’s known to be a stealthy way platforms limit posts’ visibility.
“You can’t even search the song on iTunes without going to the music video and clicking the external link. So they’re trying their hardest to keep it off the radar,” Blow added.
The Post reached out to Apple for comment.
The rapper filmed the nearly three-minute music video in a Target store, drawing attention to Target’s LGBTQ-friendly merchandise, including children’s’ books titled “The Official Rainbow Yearbook.”
“We’re living in a culture right now where people need to speak out. We need to stand up for the children,” Blow said of the song during a Monday interview on “Fox & Friends First.”
“There’s no place for LGBTQ for fourth- and fifth-graders,” he added.
Since releasing its “PRIDE” collection, calls to boycott the Minneapolis-based retailer have tanked its stock value.
Target shares were trading at $137.31 on Tuesday, the lowest in nearly three years.
They were valued at $160.96 on May 17.
Target’s sinking fortunes is being likened to that of Bud Light, which saw sales plummet in the wake of its ill-fated partnership with trans social media star Dylan Mulvaney.
Blow even references the Anheuser-Busch-made beer in his music video, in a clip where he’s seen carrying stacks of Bud Light through Target.
In multiple promotional videos for the song on Twitter, Blow filmed himself wandering through Target’s aisles and bashing its “PRIDE” collection as “disturbing.”
“People say they’re not being groomed, and kids, this is grooming,” Blow said in one video while holding up a children’s skirt with rainbow stripes.
He also held up a children’s book titled “‘Twas the Night Before Pride,” and a handful of T-shirts donning LGBTQ-friendly slogans, like “Trans people will always exist!”
“This agenda has gone too far,” he captioned another video post showing Blow holding up a tee that read “live laugh lesbian.”
However, Blow says he’s “been silenced” on other platforms. “I had my free speech ripped from me. A lifetime ban on Instagram, a lifetime ban on Facebook for speaking positivity,” the rapper told Fox.
He went on to say that his music is “waking people up” and “shifting the culture” by “letting them know that you don’t have to follow the crowd, you can stand on your own and be a leader.”
Blow has nearly 40 songs on iTunes, plus more on YouTube, including one titled “FOCK BUD LIGHT.”
Target has been caught in the middle of a type of culture war over gender since it released its Pride collection, which especially outraged customers for including children’s clothes and a “tuck-friendly” swimsuit for women that allows trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their genitalia.
The retailer has since announced that it would move its Pride section to the back of its stores in some Southern outposts after displays were knocked over by protestors who also confronted workers.
A spokesperson also said that the chain would remove some of the Pride merchandise from its shelves — citing “volatile circumstances” and “significant confrontational behavior.”
One of the LGBTQ brands that is being pulled is Abprallen, a London-based company that designs and sells occult- and satanic-themed LGBTQ clothing and accessories, the company said.
It was unclear if any of the Pride-themed children’s clothes, or the “tuck-friendly” swimsuits, would be taken off the shelves.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
