Kevin Gates stays silent on controversy over his live birth Instagram story after fans left horrified

AMERICAN rapper Kevin Gates has yet to speak out on the comments people have made online in reaction to a graphic post he shared.

The rap artist shocked many when he posted a video showing his 11million Instagram followers a random woman performing a natural home birth.

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Gates has continued to share various media on his Instagram story while completely avoiding addressing any questions or comments that have arisen regarding the birthing clip that stunned his fans.

He captioned the video: "The Most Beautiful thing on Earth is the gift of Life."

The clip features a woman named Kendra Johnson, who reportedly shared her birthing experience with Instagram account @indiebirth.

Gates shared the account's video that was posted "In celebration of black maternal health week" to his Instagram story, where his fans were clearly not expecting to run across something so graphic.

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The video shows the woman leaning on what appears to be a counter while she gives birth and her partner helps deliver the child.

Numerous people started to distribute warnings on other social media networks like Twitter after unsuspectedly having seen the up close and personal birthing video on Gates' story.

Which led to others joining the conversation just to say they wish they'd heeded the warnings.

"Somebody tweeted 'do not look at Kevin Gates Instagram story' next time imma mind my business," a person tweeted.

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Some who chose to stay away from Gates' story even chimed into the conversation, someone simply tweeted: "Nah, not gonna look at Kevin Gates story..."

Mane people shared their reactions online about the video Gates shared after witnessing Twitch live streamer and Youtuber Kai Cenat react to seeing the clip on the rapper's story for the first time.

In a live stream, Cenat was shown strolling through his cell phone before throwing it on the floor, screaming and running in and out of the camera's frame.

In response to Cenat's recorded reaction to seeing Gates' story, other people, who felt that the controversy surrounding the story post was immature, joined the conversation.

"People are way overreacting bc of that birthing video on Kevin Gates story," someone said on Twitter.

"I don’t need to see Kai Cenat dropping his phone running around, screaming like an idiot."

Another person who said others were "over exaggerating," also explained that "Kai Cenat started screaming like a 9 year old girl."

The debate surrounding the post that remained on his story for 24 hours even continued after the story post went away.

After the day had passed and the post was no longer on Gates' page, someone made an announcement on Twitter: "Dont get curious and search 'Kevin Gates Instagram story May 7th 2023.'"

While a lot of people recounted what they felt were overreactions to the rapper's story post.

"The process in the Kevin Gates IG story was beautiful. You cannot be disgusted by that," a Twitter user said.

"We have to be serious!"

Someone noted: "I fully expected something way worse than a woman giving birth on Kevin Gates' IG story."

They went on to say: "Y’all are overreacting."

A different user said: "People overreacted about that Kevin Gates story it’s the beginning of life - what’s so disgusting about child birth?"

Kevin Gates did not immediately respond to the U.S. Sun's request for comment.