Rapper appears on US television to insist explicitly that his success proves America understands young,black menLil Wayne has distanced himself from the Black Lives Matter movement, saying: “I don’t feel connected to a damn thing that ain’t got nothin’ to attain with me. whether you attain, and you crazy as shit … Feeling connected to something that ain’t got nothin’ to attain with you? whether it ain’t got nothin to attain with me,I ain’t connected to it.”The Grammy-winning rapper was interviewed on ABC’s Nightline on US television on Tuesday night, and said he felt instances of police violence against black people should not be treated as a collective phenomemon. That just sounds weird, and I don’t know,that you put a name on it. It’s not a name, it’s not ‘whatever, or whatever’. It’s somebody got shot by a policeman for a fucked-up reason.” Related: Lil Wayne: the tragic decline of a hip-hop trailblazer Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com