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Guns N’ Roses cut song with homophobic, racist lyrics from album reissue

The track ‘One in a Million’ has been omitted

Published

8 years ago

May 9, 2018

Mariah Cooper

Guns N’ Roses (Screenshot via YouTube)

Guns N’ Roses is releasing an expanded box set of their 1987 album “Appetite for Destruction,” which will include demos and unreleased tracks. However, one song is notably missing from the track list.

“One in a Million,” which features Axl Rose singing homophobic and racist lyrics, will not be included on the reissue, Pitchfork reports.

On the track Rose, who also wrote the song, sings, “Immigrants and fa*gots/They make no sense to me/They come to our country /And think they’ll do as they please.”

He also sings the lyrics, “Police and nig*ers/ That’s right/ Get out of my way/ Don’t need to buy none of your/ Gold chains today.”

Speaking with Rolling Stone in 1989, Rose explained that he was describing “bad experiences” he’s had with gay people and immigrants.

“Maybe I should have been more specific and said, ‘Joe Schmoladoo at the 7-11 and fa*gots make no sense to me,’” Rose said at the time. “That’s ridiculous. I summed it up simply and said, ‘Immigrants.’”

Rose also defended his use of the word “ni*ger” saying that the word “doesn’t necessarily mean black.”

“Why can black people go up to each other and say, ‘ni*ger,” but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it’s a big putdown?,” Rose said. “I don’t like boundaries of any kind. I don’t like being told what I can and what I can’t say. I used the word ‘ni*ger’ because it’s a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem. The word ‘ni*ger’ doesn’t necessarily mean black.”

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Clavicular charged in alleged rape of teenage influencer

Online personality’s real name is Braden Peters

Published

2 hours ago

September 23, 2026

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Braden Peters a.k.a. "Clavicular" (Screen capture via NBC News/YouTube)

Online personality Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, has been accused of rape.

According to NBC, Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, an 18-year-old influencer known online as Alorah or Alorah Ziva, accused Peters of sexual assault, and the case is making its way through the court system.

The alleged incident occurred on May 23, 2025, when Mendoza was 17.

According to a criminal complaint from the Chatham (Mass.) Police Department, Peters called her an Uber to his family’s home. Once there, he allegedly got her drunk on vodka while they livestreamed on Twitch and then raped her. His mother and grandmother were allegedly in the house.

The documents allege Clavicular committed rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse, and procuring and providing liquor to a person under 21.

According to court documents acquired by NPR, Mendoza began communicating with Peters on Instagram, where he paid her to appear on his livestreams to help her “make her name known on social media.”

According to those documents, Peters arranged for the minor to come to Cape Cod home to participate in a videostream for his 437,000 followers on Kick, 1.2 million followers on TikTok, and more than 1 million followers on Instagram.

At his home, Peters allegedly instructed Mendoza to say she was 18 on his videostream and to claim the alcohol on camera was water instead of vodka. Mendoza said she felt peer-pressured to drink the spirit and that she became noticeably intoxicated after a couple of drinks.

The allegations go on to state that after stopping the stream, Peters and Mendoza kissed on a couch and then had sex in his bed without her consent. Mendoza said she did not receive a sexual assault forensic exam after the incident. NPR does not name alleged victims of sexual assault.

The charges come months after Mendoza sued Peters in Miami, accusing him of sexual battery in connection with the events of May 2025. The civil lawsuit also separately alleges that he injected her face with a non-FDA-approved fat-dissolving substance during a November livestream in Florida.

Peters is known for his “looksmaxxing” concept of vanity, which is at the core of his online presence. The “looksmaxxing” culture he has helped cultivate combines elements of incel culture and heterosexuality, with the stated goal of attracting the opposite sex. He has gone as far as to say he has undergone “bonesmashing,” or hitting his own face with a hammer; taken anabolic steroids to more rapidly grow muscle; and used crystal meth as an appetite suppressant.

At the same time, looksmaxxing has been described as having elements of homoeroticism, with “looksmaxxers” appearing more concerned with impressing other men than women. Peters has multiple times pointed to openly gay actor Matt Bomer as the gold standard for male facial aesthetics.

Peters’s arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 14.