By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
As we reported recently, things haven’t been good so lately for rapper Rick Ross. After the frontman of Maybach Music Group rapped some questionable lyrics that sounded a lot like an ode to date rape, the rapper quickly found himself the target of an online petition and women activists. Rick Ross immediately spoke on the lyrics in an interview, and he said his words were being misinterpreted. However, people weren’t buying his claims, and eventually activists began to protest against Reebok for choosing Rick Ross in an endorsement deal. In the end, Rick Ross would offer an apology on Twitter, but he ended up getting dropped from Reebok and from the song. As a result of the backlash, Rick Ross decided to release a statement, and many agree he probably should have released the statement during the early stages of the backlash.
One person who is still standing by Rick Ross is his artist Meek Mill, and Meek seems to think everyone who is angry about the lyrics are weirdos. He said in a recent radio interview:
“You know man, I don’t even care about nobody criticizing lyrics man. People rap about killing stuff all day man. Biggie said ‘rape your kid, throw her over the bridge,’ back then and it was nothing, it was just hip-hop. Now you got all these weirdos on these social sites voicing their opinions about something anybody say. I don’t care. You know what I’m saying? I’m from the hood. I never really cared about what nobody said in no raps. Raps always been talking about killing, drugs, all types of stuff, you know what I’m saying? So you can’t just criticize no one thing nobody say man. It’s imaginary visuals. If a writer write about somebody getting raped in a movie, is he a rapist or he want girls to get raped? No, he just wrote about that in a movie.”
Meek also took to his Twitter account to slam the shoe company for dropping Ross and even claimed the move means more companies could potentially follow suit in the near future against other artists. Read the tweets from top to bottom:
And “clowning” the company is supposed to do what exactly? No one is even checking for Meek Mill, he is a joke.
Did he say boom? LOL, don’t make this easy Meek…
Meek Mill continues to show his ignorance with this topic. A business will always do what it has to do at the end of the day. They tried to keep Rick Ross, but they couldn’t when they had women activist groups protesting their company. Especially over such a sensitive subject matter. They did the right thing and a smart person gets it.
Tell him Heather!!!!
He clearly doesn’t understand. Though I do agree with him when he says that rappers rap about murder and have always disrespected women…so why the heck did Reebok even sign him in the first place!?!?!?
Don’t endorse rappers..point blank period.
No class whatsoever. Even Rick Ross said he understood why Reebok dropped him. Rick Ross really needs to put a muzzle on this fool because he’s not a good luck for him, especially not right now.
Meek getting dropped next from his endorsements. Loyalty is one thing but is business is business. Rookie mistake
Meek Mill needs to worry about why his album flopped…dude dropped the album in October and it’s only sold a little over 300,000 copies. His priorities are all messed up. LOL.
Why does he keep talking about this? Did he not learn from what just happened to Rick Ross? Free speech is a lie when it comes to making money. He’s going to end up getting protested himself if he doesn’t stop talking crazy.
I wish this young fool would shut up and get off of Twitter. He’s been extremely ignorant to the women who were upset about the lyrics and rap victims. He’s just as much of a problem to the culture as Ross’ lyrics were. I wish both would just go away. We need more Tupacs and less Lil Waynes.
Meek please have a seat. How you got a record deal is still a mystery to me.
Loyalty is something I understand but he’s actually making Rick Ross look even worse with all these rants and stupid interviews. The “boss” needs to put his employees in check.
Oh I wish he would just shut up already. Reebok did what it had to do. Welcome to the real world Meek!
This is another one of those situations where it’s best to be quiet.
It’s funny that he’s calling Reebok corny when he’s one of the corniest rappers out right now.
LOL. Right.
I hope Rick Ross knows that other companies are paying attention to how nasty his artists are acting about Reebok doing what had to be done. And this will definitely turn off potential companies from working with him.
This.