Rapper Lupe Fiasco was asked to get off the stage at a Sunday night pre-inauguration concert in Washington for performing an antiwar song, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The 31-year-old performed at the StartUp RockOn inauguration event at the Hamilton Live Theater and in a video taken of the incident, Fiasco rapped a refrain that included the lyrics "[Rush] Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist."

He went on to rap "Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn't say...That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either."

The news report noted that when concertgoers grew upset about Fiasco's lyrics, a staff member approached the rapper and asked him to leave the stage, but he refused.. When concert hall lights were dimmed, he left the stage but was not forced off, according to concert promoters. The organizers also said Fiasco repeated the one song "for more than 40 minutes."

"Lupe Fiasco was not 'kicked off stage' for an 'anti-Obama rant.' We are staunch supporters of free speech, and free political speech," concert organizers said in an email to reporters. "This was not about his opinions. Instead, after a bizarrely repetitive, jarring performance that left the crowd vocally dissatisfied, organizers decided to move on to the next act."

"The party continued as planned," they added.

Fiasco called President Barack Obama "the biggest terrorist" during an interview with CBS in 2011 and previously criticized Obama's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were officially sworn in office on Sunday, Jan. 20, as mandated by the Constitution in private ceremonies at the Vice President's house and the White House. The 20th Amendment of the Constitution specified Jan. 20 as Inauguration Day. The official ceremony on Monday is just a symbolic one for the public.

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