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Swollen Members’ MC Madchild banned from entering the United States
Swollen Members’ MC Madchild (aka Shane Bunting) won’t be flying to Las Vegas, road-tripping to Portland, or shopping for flatscreen televisions in Bellingham any time soon.
According to a January 4, 2011 news release from the Members’ record label, Suburban Noize, the Vancouver rapper has been banned from entering the United States.
Bunting, who has been open about having an OxyContin addiction in the middle of last decade, was detained by U.S. customs officials while attempting to board a plane at Vancouver International Airport. The red flag evidently went up when he was identified as having connections to the Hells Angels, something that the MC says is now in the past.
In the release, Bunting states: "I was on my way to meet my brothers in Swollen Members to perform some shows in the United States. I went to go through customs at the Vancouver Airport, and I was pulled into the Customs waiting room. I must have sat there for three hours before I was even called up to the desk, which was odd considering there was hardly anybody else in there waiting. When I was finally called up, the agent started questioning me about being a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club and when I replied, ”˜No’, he just continued to repeat the question over and over again. After five more hours of waiting, watching him go back and forth, looking on the internet and asking me the same questions over and over again, I was finally called to the front desk. He asked me another series of questions and after a total of eight and a half hours of questioning I was told that I was officially banned from entering the United States.
"The thing that is frustrating to me is that I am being judged for the people I associated with and for some trouble I had back when I was a minor over sixteen years ago. In the last year I’ve managed to defeat my drug addiction and really worked on changing my life to become a better person. I’ve even started speaking at high schools here in Canada to talk to kids about the perils of drug addiction and hopefully use my journey to inspire the youth to avoid the pitfalls that I fell into. It’s extremely disheartening to me to know that after turning my life around, it feels like a second chance is evading me. Unfortunately when entering the United States, I’m not judged on the person I am today, but rather on my appearance and whoever the customs officials perceive me to be, which is discrimination."
The Swollen Members are set to release a new album, titled Dagger Mouth, on March 15, 2011.
SM has never been shy about using the HA in videos, for promo shoots, and you have never been shy - you as an individual - in the media about promoting your friendships and relationships with other HA's. Members of SM even appear in that godawful Hal Porteous (White Rock HA) "Old School Gangster" video. Christ, if anything, that should keep you out of the USA that should be it.
That wasnt sixteen years ago my friend, and there is nothing discriminatory about being denied entry to the US on the basis of your recent public statements. It is their country, and even if it is discriminatory, they arent obligated to honour your rights as a Canadian. They can discriminate all they want.
When associating with the HA's filled your bank, you played it for all its worth, acting the gangsta, bad ass, ho running gang banging pimp role for all it was worth.
Now that your association with the HA isnt filling your bank, you are being "discriminated" against.
You took the money then, take the responsibility now.
Like any industrious person MC will learn that the spiiritual enlightenment that comes with getting clean mus inevitably eveloce into political consciousness. That's way hardcore rappers are still saying "fight the power" and that includes sovereign power at the border.
Play the HA (and known gangster affiliation) card often
enough and get dirty with the dirtbags and you start to
look like you might be friendly with organized crime.
US owns their border and they swept you away.
Now hush and stop looking like such a crybaby.
Thought not. Fuck him.
I know nothing about this guy, but when you see fellow Canadians dissin like this...
As an US American who crosses the border frequently, I do have to say customs on both sides have become way too uptight. They are supposed to protect against life and security threats, but it has become something else for sure. The Canadian Boarder Patrol became much more uptight and much less friendly this past year. My question is "Why?"
Just seemed like the US forced some changes (to make themselves look less obnoxious in contrast?).
Should probably shut up before they make my life more of a hell each time I cross.
all you f*ckn catty ass faggots, commenting like you even know what you're talking about, need to go hit up your personal drug connect..you sound like a bunch of b**ches on a bad come down..you fiends are just dopesick!!!
btw, Mad Child has a new album coming out sometime soon "Dopesick"..
cop that sh*t..haha
If not bad enough for being killed for having a turban or brown skin, now they don't want us buying their milk or helping their economy.
America was a great nation it no longer is. China is the new super power. America has given us rap music and beautiful art but their wars and racism are flat out crazy.
So Madchild can't go to the USA who cares, grow your weed and smoke it. Freespeech and racial equality is what Canada should be about.
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