Unaffected by pushback over a prior photo he took with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lil Wayne recalled how Trump’s advisors asked them to take a snap together and he agreed.
In his May interview with Rolling Stone, the superstar rapper/wrier said:
“There was some people in there like, ‘Y’all should take a picture.’ He didn’t even ask for a picture,” he recounted. “(Trump) says, ‘These mother**kers asking me for f**king pictures all f**king day, man. Can we please?’ I said, ‘It’s the President. OK.’ (Trump) was like, ‘Thank you. B**ches (been) bothering me all day.'”
At an October 2020 event in Florida, supposedly held to discuss initiatives for the Black community, the musician (born Dwayne Carter Jr.) stood next to Trump for photographers, and while Wayne suffered backlash after the photo circulated online, he maintained that he wasn’t bothered by the response, adding:
“F**k no, I don’t care about no backlash for nothin’ I do, you know me, man. My mama woulda been mad if I ain’t smile. That might have been the only backlash I would have worried about.”
Following charges relating to an arrest in Florida for transporting a loaded handgun on his private jet from California some two years prior, it was in January 2021 that the 42-year old artist received a pardon from Trump. Yet, despite receiving the presidential pardon, the hip-hop star admitted he wouldn’t have endorsed the politician during the past election cycle, stating:
“I would’ve told him, ‘You probably don’t want that,’ because I don’t know what’s going on.” “I can tell you who won the last game, but I can’t really… you know what I mean? I don’t feel about it. I don’t give a f**k about that type of s**t.”
Scheduled to drop on June 6, Lil Wayne is currently promoting his fourteenth solo studio full length, Tha Carter VI.
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Author: Saul Goode
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