Ari Lennox was upset after a concertgoer launched a bottle in her direction while she was performing Wednesday in Inglewood, California at the Forum.
The Washington, D.C. native, 32, who was the opener for Rod Wave, was beginning to sing her signature track Pressure when the bottle just missed her.
‘Bitch, don’t f***ing play with me,’ the R&B singer, whose full name is Courtney Shanade Salter, said in a social media video circulating in the wake of the incident. ‘Stop that s***, I’ll f*** you up.’
The Got Me artist faced a specific section of the arena as she continued her statement.
‘Who did it? Who the f*** did it?’ she said. ‘I don’t play that, I’m a real-ass b****, and I will f*** your s*** all the way the f*** up.
The latest: Ari Lennox, 32, was upset after a concertgoer launched a bottle in her direction while she was performing Wednesday Inglewood, California at the Forum. Pictured last year in LA
Lennox was pictured earlier this month onstage at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on November 2
‘Don’t you ever disrespect a beautiful Black woman on the f***ing stage like that, I will f***ing f*** you up. That’s the f*** right, who did it b****?’
In a separate fan clip, a person in the crowd appeared to be identifying themselves as the person who threw the bottle, with Lennox saying, ‘Come here, let’s do it.’
The microphone Lennox was using was turned off, and Lennox’s security led her off the stage following the brush with danger, Entertainment Weekly reported.
The incident involving Lennox is the latest in an alarming trend of performers being targeted with objects by attendees while onstage.
Earlier this month, Taylor Swift told fans at her show at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires not to throw presents at the stage, citing the safety concerns involved.
‘It really freaks me out when stuff gets thrown on the stage,’ Swift said. ‘Because if it’s on the stage then a dancer can trip on it. I love that you brought presents and that is so nice, but just can you please not throw them on the stage. I love you so much.’
This past June, singer Bebe Rexha was injured after she was struck in the face by a phone a concertgoer launched onstage during her show at New York City’s The Rooftop at Pier 17.
Rexha had to receive stitches following the incident, in which a man named Nicolas Malvagna was arrested on assault allegations.
The singer, whose full name is Courtney Shanade Salter, was pictured in June in New Orleans
In another shocking incident that also took place this past June, Pink was performing on London at Hyde Park when an audience member threw a pouch containing her mother’s ashes onstage.
‘This is your mom? I don’t know how to feel about that,’ Pink said, adding that the incident marked ‘a first’ in her decades-long career in the limelight.
Adele addressed the issue this past July at one of her concerts in her residency in Las Vegas at Ceasar’s Palace Hotel & Casino.
‘Have you noticed how people are like, forgetting f***ing show etiquette at the moment?’ the Rolling in the Deep singer said. ‘People just throwing s*** on stage, have you seen them?’
At the time, Adele had a T-shirt cannon in her hand, telling the audience with a smile: ‘I f***ing dare you … dare you to throw something at me and I’ll f***ing kill you.’