Lil Wayne is not well liked by some advocates of the Black Lives Matter movement at the moment. Tunechi made some negative remarks regarding the movement during an interview with ABC’s Nightline.
“What is it? What do you mean? That just sounds weird,” Wayne said in response to a question on BLM asked by Nightline’s Linsey Davis. “I don’t know, that you put a name on it… It’s not a name, it’s not, ‘whatever whatever.’ It’s somebody got shot by a policeman for a f*****d up reason.”
Weezy went onto says racism doesn’t exist in his world.
“I am a young, black rich motherf****r,” he continued. “If that don’t let you know that America understand black motherf*****s these days, I don’t know what it is. That man white, he filming me. I’m a n***a. I don’t know what you mean, man. Don’t come at me with that dumb s**t, man. My life matter. Especially to my b****s.”
T.I. was among those who found issue with Wayne’s stance.
Wayne appeared to respond to Tip’s comments.
On Twitter, Wayne wrote, “fk ya.”
fk ya
— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) November 6, 2016
Lil Wayne first expressed his thoughts on race during an appearance on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed.”
Tunechi was asked his thoughts on Colin Kaepernick’s protest of the national anthem by kneeling.
“I respect the man and his decisions. I have no opinion on it. I’m not into enough to even give an opinion.
Skip followed up this question to ask Wayne his thoughts on race relations in America.
Wayne says he has been blessed in his 33 years on earth.
“I have never — and never is a strong word – I’ve never dealt with racism,” he said.
Wayne expanded on his thoughts on racism during an interview with The Associated Press, saying a white officer saved his life when he was 12 years old.
“At the age of 12 years old I shot myself. I was in the house. Police knocked on my door. I was right there. They knocked the door down. Everybody jumped over my body to go get the guns and drugs and whatever they could find. It took one guy to stop right there and curse everybody that hopped over me out.
Wayne said the cop who saved his live was “white as snow.” He said the officers who hopped over him was blacker than him.
“I don’t know what racism is,” he said. “I know a good motherf****r named Uncle Bob, though.”