Lil Wayne dismissed criticism over his Trump photograph, saying he solely cared about his mother’s opinion as he prepares “Tha Carter VI” for a June 6 launch.
Lil Wayne dismissed criticism over his 2020 photograph with former President Donald Trump throughout a Florida occasion targeted on Black group initiatives.
He instructed Rolling Stone he didn’t care concerning the on-line response and solely took the image after Trump’s group steered it.
“There was some individuals in there like, ‘Y’all ought to take an image.’ He didn’t even ask for an image,” Wayne stated. “(Trump) says, ‘These m############ asking me for f###### footage all f###### day, man. Can we please?’ I stated, ‘It’s the President. OK.’ (Trump) was like, ‘Thanks. B###### (been) bothering me all day.’”
The picture, snapped simply days earlier than the 2020 election, rapidly circulated on-line and drew criticism, however the rapper shrugged it off.
“F### no, I don’t care about no backlash for nothin’ I do, me, man. My mama woulda been mad if I ain’t smile. That may have been the one backlash I’d have nervous about,” he stated.
Wayne, 42, was later granted a presidential pardon by Trump in January 2021 for a federal weapons cost stemming from a 2019 incident by which he was caught with a loaded firearm on a non-public jet in Florida.
Regardless of the pardon, the Hip-Hop icon stated he wouldn’t have backed Trump within the 2020 election.
“I’d’ve instructed him, ‘You in all probability don’t need that,’ as a result of I don’t know what’s happening,” he stated. “I can inform you who received the final recreation, however I can’t actually… what I imply? I don’t really feel about it. I don’t give a f### about that kind of s###.”
Wayne is at present gearing up for the discharge of Tha Carter VI, his fourteenth solo studio album, which drops June 6.
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