Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at with any other comments or remarks. We hope students understand the position we are in, and once again hope they look at the entertainers as simply entertainers. I do encourage students to reach out to any of the many resources we have on campus, such as the Counseling Center, The Center Student Wellness & Health Promotion, or any of the other available resources for students. If the actions of this artist have brought detrimental affects to any students well-being, I sincerely apologize. The decisions Dexter makes are his own, and we cannot control that or do anything about that. We ask students to look at this artists simply as that, an artist. Famous Dex’s actions are not something we support, and not something we condone. All our entertainers for Shocktoberfest are very prevalent right now and artists students want to see, as can be evinced by our sold out show. In regards to Famous Dex, he is someone that is very prevalent in the music industry and sparks interest in students. Being in this position is hard at times because we want to please everyone on campus, but that is logistically impossible because everyone is so unique with what they are interested in. When choosing artists for events, we try our best to find entertainers who are prevalent and interest students on this campus. I want to start off by saying we do not condone this behavior whatsoever. In response to inquiries about Famous Dex performing at Shocktoberfest, Student Services VP Dilraj Toor sent this statement: Like all ASUCI events, Shocktoberfest is funded with student fees procured in part from the Associated Students Fee which for the 2018-2019 academic year amounts to $84 per student as well as some income from ticket sales. UCI students have begun to comment online about Famous Dex’s invitation to perform at Shocktoberfest. We do not, nor will we, have any relationship w/ Famous Dex.” Dex had previously modelled a collection for the brand earlier that year. The rapper was dropped as a collaborator with clothing designer and footwear apparel brand PUMA, who stated in a tweet “PUMA does not condone any act of violence toward women. Following the release of the video, Dex tweeted then deleted that his girlfriend at the time had be caught cheating on him which caused the altercation. She had my king, she had my son, and I just wanna be forgetting about it.”Īccording to the video, the altercation in the hallway lasted about 30 seconds before a third party intervened to remove Dex off his girlfriend. I’m glad everything kinda, you know, it went a different way. “Not just me putting my hands on a female, I just, me losing my mom, me being new to this music stuff, it was a lot of pressure on me, you know? So I just kinda blanked out right there. “What I learned from that, I learnt a lot,” Dex said. 8 with Famous Dex slotted as the midliner despite a leaked security video from 2016 showing the rapper chasing his girlfriend down a hallway and getting into a physical altercation with her.ĭex has since addressed the incident on popular morning radio show “The Breakfast Club” in April of this year. The lineup for UCI’s annual fall concert Shocktoberfest was announced on Oct.
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