Lil Wayne: Rich Rappers Prove ‘Black Motherf***ers Matter These Days’

“I am young, black, rich… My life matter…”

11.2.2016

Rapper Lil Wayne is back stirring the pot after a controversial interview back in September in which he declared racism was over and that he couldn’t get on board with the Black Lives Matter movement. Now in a contentious interview with Nightline, Wayne doubled down in a way only a rapper could.

ABC News’s Linsey Davis spent three years with Lil Wayne to produce the segment, following him around the world before sitting with him for one, final time — and we mean final. As the discussion turned to the BLM movement, Lil Wayne reiterated that his success proves that racism isn’t the big problem so many make it out to be.

“What’s your thoughts on Black Lives Matter?” Davis asked.

“What is it? What do you mean?” Wayne responded. “That just sounds weird. I don't even 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***ed up reason. I am a young, black, rich motherf***er. If that don't let you know that America understand black motherf***ers matter these days, I don't know what it is. That man white; he filmin’ me. I’m a n*gger. I don’t know what you mean, man. Don't come at me with that dumb sh*t, ma'am. My life matter, especially to my bitches."

Davis asked if he separates himself from the movement and he said, “I don't feel connected to a damn thing that ain't got nothin' to do with me. If you do, you crazy as sh*t — you!”

Earlier in the interview, Wayne discussed his love of marijuana saying, “There’s God, there’s family, there’s my kids, there’s music and weed.” As for his time in Rikers Island for an illegal gun charge, Wayne said prison taught him a lot about people: “You’re all on the same level. You’re all going through the same thing. Everybody wants to go home.”

But things turned strange when the rapper pulled out a red handkerchief from his back pocket to explain what he does feel connected to and he abruptly ended the interview:

"I'm connected to this f***ing flag right f***ing here, because I'm connected. I'm a gangbanger now. I’m connected.”

Pulling off his mic and angrily leaving the interview, Lil Wayne said, “I ain’t no f***ing politician.”

But what was especially rewarding was watching the anchor feign shock after the segment: “Really? A man who makes his living using offensive language offended by a question? Okay, that’s one way to end an interview.”

Weird, it almost seemed as if the mainstream media momentarily recognized hypocrisy. That may be the most surprising part of the entire clip.

Extras not in the full interview are below: