There are plenty of reasons not to threaten rappers on Twitter, but being in the same room as one and firing off some words on Twitter seems to be pretty damn unreasonable. Wale, who spent the better part of his day releasing a new remix to his hit "Sunshine," seems to have gotten into a bit of a squabble tonight with a member of the audience at a live World Wrestling Entertainment event in Washington D.C. just days before the huge Wrestlemania event in New Orleans.
Twitter user @Chefboyrnach fired off some tweets at Wale from the event that the two were attending:
Wale then responded to the guy's tweets:
And from there, tweets from witnesses at the event started to appear:
TMZ spoke with one of the eyewitnesses at the event who said that "Wale punched him dead in his face," and after the tiff, Wale returned to his seat to enjoy the rest of the show in peace while the instigator was carried off backstage by security.
UPDATE: Wale tweets about the situation:
UPDATE: A video has surfaced of the incident. Wale can clearly be seen shoving the heckler, but no punches were thrown:
UPDATE: @Chefboyrnach has tweeted his side of the incident:
UPDATE 4/1/14 5:30PM: Wale has sounded off on the confrontation between him and a Twitter follower that took place last night. An in interview with MTV, the rapper says the incident wasn't that serious, although he did think about the possibility of it escalating beyond some words and a shove. Wale also expressed his amazement at how people view him responding to a heckler as showing weakness. Read what Wale had to say below.
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