Zach Bryan Releases Song With Scathing Lyrics About ICE

Zach Bryan He finally released his song “Bad News,” which features scathing lyrics about law enforcement officers and ICE agents, days after the deadly shooting in Minneapolis. According to The Blast, Bryan had already made headlines in October 2025 when he teased a snippet of the song on his Instagram account, including the lyrics, “My friends are all degenerates, but they’re all I got, generational story of bringing down the conspiracy. Heard the cops came, cocky, right?” He continued on the track, “And ICE will come crashing down your door, and try to build a house that no one builds anymore, but I’ve got a phone, and the kids are all scared and lonely.” In the extended version of the song, Brian laments the current state of America before calling for unity.

In the full, three-minute version of the song, Brian adds: “My friends are all degenerates, it’s all I’ve got / Every day on the news, someone else gets shot / Got some bad news / Fade out the red, white and blue.” The singer reminds listeners that “this land is your land” and “this land.” [is] “Mine too.”

Brian initially faced backlash over the lyrics of his new song. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized the singer during a previous appearance, saying: “To every individual who has stood up and fought for our freedoms, you have compromised everything by putting out a product like this, which attacks individuals who are only trying to make our streets safe.”

“So Zach, I didn’t listen to your music. I’m happy about that day. Today, that makes me so happy, because I never gave you a penny to enrich your lifestyle if you really believed in what that song stood for,” she continued, before promoting singers like Jason Aldean and John Rich.

When Brian first announced the release of his single, it was amidst widespread ICE raids across America. Today, the world is more tense than ever, as an ICE agent fatally shot a woman on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, while going through the immigration process in Minneapolis.

According to a report by The Blast, the woman, identified as Renee Judd, was a US citizen and was not the target of the operation. Despite this, reports and videos confirmed that Judd was involved in an altercation with an ICE agent who opened fire after Judd allegedly tried to hit them with her car.

The Minneapolis police chief expressed concern about the ICE presence in Minnesota a day before the shooting. “I’ve been concerned for weeks that because the case is so emotional, because frankly, in some of the ways these things have been played out, the biggest risk to me is that there will be unrest or there will be tragedy,” he said. “Someone could be seriously hurt or killed because of what’s happening.”

“Get out of Minneapolis,” Mayor Jacob Frey told Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his press conference.

A-list celebrities have reacted sharply to Good’s fatal shooting. “Barbie” star Simu Liu stated that he was “absolutely horrified by the murderous actions of ICE agents” on X, while Amanda Seyfried reposted the viral clip of Mayor Frey dismissing ICE’s presence in the state.

Cynthia Nixon shared several statements on her Instagram Stories, including “Abolish ICE!!!” and calling for the arrest of “all ICE agents who denied her medical care.”

Grammy Award-winning singer Billie Eilish also shared the official repost on her Instagram account, calling ICE a “federally funded and supported terrorist group.” Another reshared post showed the names of 32 people who reportedly died in ICE custody in 2025.

In the summer of 2025, Eilish’s brother, Finneas, revealed that he was tear gassed at a “very peaceful protest” in downtown Los Angeles. He added: “They are inciting this.”