The 30-year-old artiste returned to his old 'stomping' grounds of Hollygrove, New Orleans to shoot the video for 'God Bless Amerika', a single from his album, reported the Huffington Post.
A leaked one-minute raw footage shows the four-time Grammy winner stepped on the flag and walked over it, with no one from the crew who were standing nearby bothering to pull the flag out from beneath him.
News of the footage prompted immediate criticism from both fans and foes, who called the rapper 'unpatriotic and disrespectful'.
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