00:00Asap Rocky continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
00:07In 2015, the rapper told Time Out New York, and I quote,
00:11I'm Asap Rocky. I did not sign up to be no political activist.
00:15I don't want to talk about no effing Ferguson and no shhh,
00:18because I don't live out there. I live in effing Soho and Beverly Hills.
00:22I can't relate. I'm in the studio. I'm in these fashion studios.
00:25I'm in these drawers. I'm not doing anything that's outside of that.
00:29That's my life. Well, okay. After he got dragged on Twitter,
00:33the rapper went on The Breakfast Club to clarify his stance,
00:36but basically just repeated the same thing over and over again.
00:39All right, I see the faces and the shifts in the seats.
00:42Are we slating or shading? One, two, three. Boop, boop, boop.
00:46Oh, Maya, I'm going to start with you. The shade, and you gave me the side eye.
00:49I got a shade eye. Let me tell you something, plat boy.
00:53Okay, like you're up in Soho. You got there four weeks ago,
00:58and you will be gone if you don't do anything relevant.
01:01I don't know a song you have on the radio right now.
01:03So be very, very clear the same way you got in there.
01:05You will get out, and when you're walking around with those plats,
01:08you may be in Ferguson the next time.
01:10So be very clear. Don't forget where you come from.
01:12You don't have to be a political activist.
01:14I don't expect you to be because you're using words
01:17that I don't want you speaking in public about anyway.
01:19Just shut up.
01:20Maya got him all the way together.
01:21Just shut up. All the way together.
01:23Just shut up.
01:24That is so true.
01:25When you go up, you can also come down. Ray, thoughts?
01:27Um, I got to shade us a little bit.
01:29Okay.
01:30Because, you know, we get so bent out of shape
01:32when people like ASAP and Lil Wayne and even Youngberg
01:36say something that's remotely dumb.
01:38Have we listened to their music?
01:39Right.
01:40Like, I mean, honestly speaking, there are a lot of prolific artists out there.
01:43You have your J. Coles or your Kendricks.
01:45Now, if they say something that's kind of hard,
01:48then we should be upset.
01:50But these are people who obviously don't think black lives matter
01:53because they don't matter in their music.
01:54So if they're not really trying to unify us on that front,
01:57we really can't expect them to be that knowledgeable
02:00of anything outside of money, hoes, and clothes.
02:03Money, hoes, and clothes?
02:05He said money, hoes, and clothes.
02:06You're a rapper!
02:08You're a rapper!
02:09You're a rapper!
02:10You're a rapper!
02:11I don't necessarily agree with that
02:12because we could say the same thing about 2 Chainz
02:14if we listen to the lyrical content of his music,
02:16and 2 Chainz makes sense outside of it, and he's very educated.
02:19Right.
02:20So I don't know if I could listen to their music
02:21and use that as an indication of whether or not
02:23they're on the right side of this argument.
02:25But what I will say about ASAP Rocky is, unfortunately,
02:29as a black man and as a black person that's successful,
02:31you don't have the opportunity or the luxury to just be like,
02:34nah, I made it, so forget everybody else.
02:36Right.
02:37You can't do that.
02:38So we're not asking you to be an activist,
02:39but remember, you are black, and you got there for a reason.
02:42So many people fought for you to be able to sing your trash over the radio.
02:45So it's like, don't turn your back on that.
02:47And there's people looking up to you.
02:48There's little kids looking up to you, whether we want to own that or not.
02:51Kayla, what's going on in Facebook?
02:53People are definitely coming for him.
02:56So Hope Gianna says, Slade, Slade, Slade, he is staying in his lane.
03:01He knows he has no opinion and no thoughts about nothing.
03:04Nothing.
03:05Iris Wood says, what a shame, but I'm sure he has families
03:08in those places he's speaking about.
03:10Interesting point.
03:11Delivery Jones says, now that he has these new model contracts,
03:14he's trying to walk a fine line.
03:16But Joanne Glenn says, wait till they pull you over.
03:19What?
03:20That is so true.
03:21That's Shade.
03:22Right, right.
03:23Shade.
03:24I still get him confused with, was it Travis Scott?
03:26They are the same person.
03:27I'm like, you're the same person.
03:28Part time.
03:29That's going to be on our next later, Shade.
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