A TikTok user named @madelineclopez1 recorded footage of popular New York rapper Keith Murray appearing to be drunk and in need of cash. Now the content creator is facing backlash for delving into the rap legend while he’s feeling down.

The one-minute video begins with Lopez approaching Murray while standing in front of what appears to be a motel or apartment constructing. The Def Jam artist, formerly generally known as “The Most Beautiful Thing in the World,” asked her not to film him while also asking her for help.

The Def Squad member puts up his hands to stop her and says, “Don’t film me.”

“I’m not filming you?” – she asks, moving closer to him. While he murmurs, she says to her followers, “Guys, look who it is. It’s Keith Murray!”

Calmly but with a tremble in his voice, Murray asks, “Why are you filming me?”

“Why?” she said rhetorically, approaching the rapper: “Because you’re famous. You’re cool. Do you want money?”

Murray says, “Yes.” She then asks him how much he wants. He replies that he’ll take as much as she wants to give him. When she tells him she’s going to give him $20 and he agrees, he reserves the proper to make a donation.

“So let me record you real quick,” Lopez offered, asking Murray to confirm that he was indeed the “Get Lifted” rapper.

“Why are you recording me?” – he said, raising his hand and covering his face from the camera.

“Because you’re Keith Murray, OK!” – she continued, then asked: – Can you sing something? Can you sing rap or something? Do you would like $20? So rap.”

In the video, Murray didn’t appear to be his usual self. He wasn’t wearing fashionable clothes, but a stretched white T-shirt and oversized jeans. His speech was slurred and he appeared disoriented and under the influence.

Immediately after seeing the clip, fans on social media criticized Lopez, accusing her of recording the rapper while he was fighting the virus. They condemned her for admitting that her motive for filming him was solely his fame.

People on social media were furious after her video, condemning the girl for recording the star. The backlash was so overwhelming that she deleted the video from TikTok, but not before others downloaded it.

“Can we talk about Keith Murray for a moment? What pisses me off more is the woman’s video. It’s hard to see him like this. One of the greatest MCs of our time,” wrote one person on the X platform.

Another person wrote on Twitter: “It’s like the Delonte West case where no one was trying to help, just take the footage and use it to gain an advantage,” referring to the previous NBA player whose struggles with addiction and vagrancy became public.

It’s very paying homage to Delonte West’s story.

— 🦋 Bel Papiyon 🦋 (@reignofglitter) March 23, 2024

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“Whoever recorded this is wicked” – TikToker he wrote in certainly one of the viral videos circulating on the Internet. Another replied: “It was wicked that he asked her to stop. Why embarrass him like that?”

Lopez took advantage of the label she was given by uploading a video of herself with a devil horns filter applied. She also said that despite all of the pressure she has felt over the past few days, she stays on the platform.

“I love you guys, I’m not leaving,” she captioned the video.

@madelineclopez1 #that day #old movie ♬ original sound – Madelineclopez1

“What a pity. I’m a huge fan of Keith Murray. It breaks my heart to see him like this,” commented one fan.

One person simply didn’t imagine he was the ’90s emcee, sharing a video of Murray performing in Baltimore just a few weeks ago.

“It was him this month. I do not believe this recording is him,” he wrote on Twitter.

Murray has spoken openly about his past addictions. In an interview with DJ Self in April 2023, he was asked if it was true that he couldn’t be around alcohol, and he replied: confirmed it’s in its own unique way.

“A drug is a drug is a drug,” Murray said. “Everyone has their very own ticker. This is between God, you and your people, your guardians and investors.

DJ Self continued: “There was a time when… I remember you saying you used to do drugs.”

Murray interjected: “I’m practicing sobriety now.”

When asked how he was doing, he replied, “It’s going well. Very good.”

This is not the primary time someone has recorded Murray’s strange behavior. In June 2023, a video of Murray went viral after Lord Jamar reposted it. The footage shows Murray wandering the streets along with his tongue protruding, a beer in a single hand and a marijuana cigar in the opposite, and waving his arms. The man shouts, “Hey, Keith!” from his vehicle, however the rapper completely ignores him.

“Our brother @keithmurrayrap clearly needs some serious help… I don’t need to see this man doing drugs in front of me to know he’s on drugs,” Lord Jamar stated in his Instagram caption. “The guy crossed the road for me, I feel if he hadn’t done drugs he would not have crossed it, so I forgive him. We need to cleanse our brother because that is terrible.

A couple of weeks later, Keith Murray discussed the video on “MRECKNRIP” with Mrecktv hosts and Sensei RIP.

“Someone got my footage and tried to kill off my character, but at the identical time they need to have played it after BET – made it seem current or something because BET was spectacular. I’m getting quite a lot of positive feedback,” he said.

The rapper then stated that the clip isn’t recent and questioned Lord Jamar’s motives for sharing it.

“It was earlier. Some videos where people I don’t know have old videos and they’re trying to get them out, but God is on my side and I’m not really talking about the negative stuff,” he said. “Why didn’t they publish my BET score? Whoever these people were. Why didn’t Lord Jamar mention how gracefully I swayed on stage?”

Murray has yet to comment on the newest video shared by Madeline Lopez.