Lil Wayne Distances Himself From Black Lives Matter: “My Life Matter”

Tonight’s episode of ABC’s “Nightline” features a sit-down interview with Lil Wayne. When asked by Linsey Davis about his feelings on the Black Lives Matter movement in the below clip, Wayne began by saying he didn’t like giving incidents of police violence a catch-all name: “That just sounds weird, 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 fucked up reason.”

Then, he seemed to disagree with the notion that people need to be told that Black Lives Matter. “I am a young black rich motherfucker,” he said. “If that don’t let you know that America understand black motherfuckers matter these days, I don’t know what it is.” He then pointed to the camera and said, “That man white; he filmin’ me. I’m a nigga.” He then threw his arms up in frustration and said, “I don’t know what you mean, man, don’t come at me with that dumb ass shit, ma’am. My life matter.” Then, he looked into the camera, smiled, said, “Especially to my bitches,” and winked.

When the journalist asked if he felt connected to Black Lives Matter, he responded: “I don’t feel connected to a damn thing that ain’t got nothin’ to do with me. If you do, you crazy as shit. Not the camera, you. Feeling connected to something that ain’t got nothin’ to do with you? If it ain’t got nothin’ to do with me, I ain’t connected to it.” In the full segment that aired on ABC, Wayne removed his mic and walked out of the interview early, saying, “I ain’t no fuckin’ politician.”

The interview echoes recent sentiments from Wayne where he said “there’s no such thing as racism.” When asked about Black Lives Matter in that interview, he replied, “That whole wave just went right by me, way too fast to even give an opinion, so I was just like, ‘Oh, OK, that’s what’s happening.’”

Read “Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson on the Power of Protest Music” and “The Sounds of Black Lives Matter.”

Lil Wayne says he doesn’t feel connected to Black Lives Matter movement. Watch tonight on Nightline at 12:35am ET. pic.twitter.com/28eBGfpSja

— Nightline (@Nightline) November 2, 2016

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