{"id":2029223,"date":"2025-09-17T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2029223"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:09:11","slug":"dababy-slammed-for-music-video-about-ukrainian-refugee-who-was-killed-on-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dababy-slammed-for-music-video-about-ukrainian-refugee-who-was-killed-on-train\/","title":{"rendered":"DaBaby slammed for music video about Ukrainian refugee who was killed on train"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DaBaby is facing backlash for a new music video that features real footage showing the moments before a Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on a train in North Carolina.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rapper, real name Jonathan Kirk, released a new track called ‘Save Me’ yesterday (September 16), along with a music<\/a> video to go with the song which, at the time of writing, has been viewed over 317,000 times on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The song is said to be dedicated to Iryna Zarutska, who was brutally stabbed on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Zarutska sadly died from her injuries, and Decarlos Brown Jr. has since been arrested and charged with her murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news of Zarustka’s death made headlines across the globe after harrowing footage of her final moments<\/a> was shared by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS).<\/p>\n

In the video, a man thought to be Brown was sat on the train when Zarustka got onboard and sat in front of him.<\/p>\n

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\"Iryna<\/div>\n

Iryna Zarutska has been named as the young woman who died in the attack last month (Iryna Zarutska\/Instagram)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The Ukrainian refugee was minding her own business when Brown all of a sudden pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the neck multiple times in what can only be described as a random attack.<\/p>\n

Now, DaBaby – who grew up in North Carolina – has reimagined the devastating event in his new music video. However, instead of Zarustka being slain, the rapper saves her.<\/p>\n

He then escorts the man who went to stab her off the train, where security is waiting for them.<\/p>\n

The video has left people divided: while some have celebrated DaBaby bringing awareness about Zarustka’s death, others branded the rapper as ‘sick’.<\/p>\n

One critic said: “Turning a tragedy into a cash grab moment is just sick.”<\/p>\n

“This is not showing tribute, dababy is sick bro,” echoed another person, as a third said: “DaBaby turning a real-life tragedy into a self insert hero arc is\u2026 wild.”<\/p>\n

“He is so weird this is so disrespectful,” added someone else.<\/p>\n

See the video here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A different person pointed out: “He could have provided financial support for the woman\u2019s family, but instead did this.”<\/p>\n

Not everyone has taken issue with the song and music video, though.<\/p>\n

Somebody commented on the rapper’s YouTube video: “A lot of people are hating on him for making this, but I’m glad a celebrity<\/a> finally brought some attention to what happened.”<\/p>\n

“Wow, DaBaby just gained some seriously massive respect in my book,” said a second, adding: “Thank you for having the courage to bring attention to this tragedy. Using your voice for good like this is truly admirable.”<\/p>\n

“Genuinely a beautiful song by DaBaby, never thought I’d say that,” a third went on to say.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the music video?<\/p>\n

UNILAD have approached reps for DaBaby for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.unilad.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DaBaby is facing backlash for a new music video that features real footage showing the moments before a Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on a train in North Carolina. The rapper, real name Jonathan Kirk, released a new track called ‘Save Me’ yesterday (September 16), along with a music video to go with the song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[305246,347095,309691,21945,21928,37798],"class_list":["post-2029223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-crime","tag-dababy","tag-north-carolina","tag-rap","tag-social-media","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}