Is Lil Wayne Using Black Lives Matter As A Social Experiment?

Lil Wayne has me messed up. When I caught wind of his interview with “Nightline” and his reaction to a Black Lives Matter question, I was in complete shock. Why get so angry over a simple question? That’s why it’s called an interview, bruh.

Then, I thought about Weezy’s previous on-air interview on Fox’s “Disputed.” When asked about racism and BLM, the rapper most certainly did not get this angry during the sit-down. What about this question on “Nightline,” that asked him to elaborate more on his past comments, resulted in such a negative reaction?

"What is it?” Weezy replied to a BLM question, as if he never heard of the movement. “What do you mean?" Then, he quickly followed up, "I am a young, black, rich motherf**ker. If that don't let you know that American understand that black f**king lives matter this days, I don't know what it is. Don't come at me with that dumb s**t, ma'am. My life matter[s]. Especially to my b**ches."

Now, this response was sooooo confusing to me because if I recall correctly, Lil Wayne has already confirmed that BLACK LIVES MATTER. What the hell is good with this dude?

Just two short months ago, Wayne led a chant for the movement at his Lil Weezyana Fest in New Orleans. “We are black America. Black Lives Matter!” he proclaimed to the crowd.  “Clothes don’t matter, cars don’t mater, nothing else matters ‘cuz Black Lives Matter.”

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This is a complete 180 from his “Nightline” appearance. In Wayne’s “Disputed” appearance, he said somewhat of the same thing, without all of the extra-ness. "I have never, and never is a strong word, never dealt with racism, and I am glad I didn't have to. And I don't know if its because of my blessings ... but it is my reality," he said on the Fox show. 

So, the fact that he’s now too rich of a motherf**ker to know what Black Lives Matter is, is mind-boggling. "I don't feel connected to a damn thing that ain't got nothin' to do with me. If you do, you crazy as s**t," the rapper said. "I ain't no f**king politician."

He most certainly didn’t think this way when Hurricane Katrina destroyed his hometown of New Orleans, and he felt the urge to drop the track “Georgia Bush” when other black Americans – just like Weezy – felt that the government abandoned the majority black victims of the disaster who desperately needed assistance after it struck.  Being as rich as he is, Weezy definitely felt a connection to the poor residents there.

“This song is dedicated to the one with the suit /Thick white skin and his eyes bright blue/ So called beef with you-know-who,” he rapped on the song, aimed at former president George W. Bush. “The white people smiling like everything cool/ But I know people that died in that pool/ I know people that died in them schools.”

The fact of the matter is, Wayne admitted that he did relate back then and he was just like them. “I was born in the boot at the bottom of the map/ New Orleans baby, now the White House hating/ Trying to wash us away like we not on the map,” he spit. “When you see them Confederate flags, you know what it is/ A white [explicit] motherf**ker that probably voted for him/ And no he ain't gonna drop no dollars, but he do drop bombs R.I.P. Tig' cause he died in the storm, f**k President (Georgia) Bush.”

**WARNING: The below video contains explicit language.**

So, the only way that I can make sense of this whole ordeal is to believe that Lil Wayne is just trolling us. He's recently said one thing about BLM and racism, and now he’s saying something completely different. Are we getting punk’d? Is this some kind of social experiment? After all, the last we heard about his educational endeavors, Wayne was taking psychology classes at the University of Phoenix. The only way I cannot think that this guy lost his damn mind is if I believe that this is for some type of psychology project, or something.

Besides, psychology does play a major in racism and race relations. “Racism manifests itself in the realm of psychology in various ways,” American Psychology Association’s website says. Moreover, in an interview with HuffPost; Dr. Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, a psychologist at the Georgetown University, as well as at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology said that there are many psychological factors of racism. “Racism has to do with thinking of oneself as being different from other people,” she said. “Racists see others as being less than, and think of themselves as being superior. Just as you would have attitudes about anything — about poor people, for example, or immigrants — you have to think about where those attitudes began and how they developed. Was it environmental? Was it upbringing? Was the person born that way? So, there’s the age-old debate about nature versus nurture here.”

Being that I know that he was extremely serious about get psychology degree, I hope to God that Lil Wayne is playing with us. If he honestly thinks this way now, it will be extremely disappointing -- A Milli times over. You better get it together, Weezy. And quick. 

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