New York City rapper “Genesis Be” wants desperately to make a statement.

So she draped herself in a Confederate flag and hung herself from a noose during a recent performance at SoHo’s SOB’s night club. The April 26 show centered on her song “Young Brown Fly” about jailed black people. Her other thought provoking hits include “Tampons & Tylenol” and “Don’t touch.”

“After the performance, I pulled out a lighter and the crowd asked me to burn the flag,” Be told the New York Daily News. “I just threw it into the crowd and told them to rip it up for me, which they did.”

Be allegedly received death threats because of her antics, but she contends her message is one of “unity and love.”

“I do feel like there’s more of an urgency to what I’m doing and what others like me are doing in terms of trying to spread a message of unity and love and taking an audacious approach to that,” she said.

The 27-year-old rapper told The Clarion-Ledger she decided make a spectacle of herself because she’s from Biloxi, and she’s angry that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared April “Confederate Heritage Month.”

Bryant spokesman Clay Chandler said in announcing the decision in February that “Gov. Bryant believes Mississippi’s history deserves study and reflection, no matter how unpleasant or complicated parts of it may be.

“Like the proclamation says, gaining insight from our mistakes and successes will help us more forward.”

Be’s mad because she alleges the governor did not use the word slavery in announcing Confederate Heritage Month.

“In my eyes, it is an anti-American heritage,” Be said. “The fact that my ancestors were brutalized under these same ideals of putting profit before people was my real motivation.”

The New York University student said she’s known for her “political satire, parody hip-hop.”

“I’m fighting for the integrity of my ancestors, honestly,” Be told the Daily News. “The people who were oppressed, enslaved, raped under that banner.”

Be discussed her controversial show and why she hates to Confederate flag so much in an interview with Billboard.

“It was just a passionate reaction to governor Phil Bryant announcing April as Confederate Heritage Month. There was also a motion to remove the symbol from the state flag that was declined. The symbol still stayed, so this is an ongoing struggle and I felt very disrespected,” she said.

“The argument of Confederate supporters wanting to be angry at what I did, saying it disrespected the pride and dignity of their ancestors, I understand. I got that before I did it. You’re not going to budge on that, and I can not budge on the dignity and pride of my ancestors, either.

“Not all white Mississippians are descendants of people who owned slaves but that does not mean you didn’t benefit from the systematic oppression.”

Be claims her grandfather was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.

“My grandfather was murdered at 42 because he was mobilizing and protecting black citizens who wanted to vote, so that they weren’t killed by the KKK. My grandmother’s house still bears the bullet holes of the Ku Klux Klan shooting (at) my father’s childhood home in Mississippi,” she told Billboard.

Her appropriation of the Confederate flag is also a payback against the racist system in Mississippi that slighted her as a child, she said.

“I think I was in the sixth grade when they took our class to Beauvoir [the home of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis]. They took us to this museum on a field trip and in front, there was this huge Confederate flag blowing,” Be said.

“I remember being like they really don’t either understand or care that they’re disrespecting a huge part of the population by flying this. … There were relics there that were directly tied and influenced from slavery.”