A rapper has made headlines after a video he filmed of him shooting himself in the face went viral. Check it out below (WARNING: It's pretty graphic, obviously).

Kasper Knight, an Indianapolis rapper who goes by the name as Kasper Tha Phantom, filmed the stunt for a music video because no one else would and he said he 'wanted to take a bullet to the face'. 

The clip sees him shoot himself in the cheek before blood starts gushing from the wound and of his mouth. 

"Are you hurt bad?" asks his association, before he replies "Yes - I don't give a fuck about nothing anymore. I swallowed the bullet, shit.' 'If I die, fuck it."

Naturally, the stunt was meant with a great deal of criticism and mockery.

According to The Daily Mail, he responded on Facebook by saying: "So I did it myself since I felt like taking a bullet to the face,' he wrote. 'Anyway, this was really nothing. I've been shot a couple times before and this was like a 4 out of 10 on the pain scale after the initial impact.

"I was slightly disorientated after the blast,' he added. 'That's because my ears were ringing/in pain. It was hard to focus on sound and although I assumed that I swallowed the bullet I wasn't quite sure.

"The last time that a bullet ricocheted through me it destroyed an organ and part of another."

He added: "Your care for my life will never supersede my disregard for it,' he wrote on Facebook. 'I knew it was possible that the bullet might bounce back and puncture my throat but it didn't matter."