In an interview with Time Out New York from last year, ASAP Rocky made it clear he didn’t feel like talking about police brutality and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Here’s the quote that resulted in backlash:
“So every time something happens because I’m black I gotta stand up? What the f*ck am I, Al Sharpton now? I’m A$AP Rocky. I did not sign up to be no political activist. I wanna talk about my motherfu*ckin’ lean, my best friend dying, the girls that come in and out of my life, the jiggy fashion that I wear, my new inspirations in drugs! I don’t wanna talk about no Ferguson and sh*t because I don’t live over there! I live in f*cking Soho and Beverly Hills. I can’t relate. I’m in the studio; I’m in the fashion studios; I’m in these b*tches’ drawers. I’m not doing anything outside of that. That’s my life.”
ASAP tells the Breakfast Club crew that he thinks his comments were taken out of context but he believes all lives matter:
“I feel like that whole interview was taken out of context. That’s not what I said. I feel terrible as a black man, as an American. This sh*t is crazy like…I just don’t understand how they can say a dark-skinned n*gga don’t like black people. And it’s because you do these interviews with European reporters, journalists who are trying to make a name for their selves and they take sh*t out of context.
“Why put me on a pedestal when I’m not asking for that? I wanna make music. I wanna inspire. I wanna promote peace. Cause at a time like this I don’t have all the answers. I’m not trying to run for office. I don’t have all the answers. I wanna promote prosperity. Especially for black people. Especially for young people, ambitious people…I’m not here to talk about supremacy.
“I hate when the bandwagon stuff starts. How come black lives only matter when a police officer take em? Black lives should matter when a black life takes it. All lives matter.”
Check out the interview below:
I wish he would shut his c–n a-s up. If you ain’t trying to help the movement, then sit your dumb a-s down and let those of us who do work. Why is that so f-cking hard to understand? I feel like we’re the only race who does this sh-t. It’s like some of us don’t want change.
lmao agreed
Geez…. please stop supporting these artists! Why do we allow drug induced, uneducated men to be “celebrities”? He said everything in that original interview, how could any of that be taken out of context? We need to come together and tear down those in our society who cannot get behind us in EVERY aspect.
Please let this idiot phase end!
I honestly don’t care about his opinions. I haven’t been checking for him and that won’t change. The good thing about this is all the idiots are telling on themselves so we know who we should support and who we need to pay dust.
What a loser. So in a nutshell he doesn’t care about any of this because he doesn’t feel it affects him personally. People like him are useless.
*blank stare* He just said the exact same thing with a little difference in wording. How did this clear up or fix anything?
This made the whole situation even worse. Lord these fools stay exposing themselves.
Sigh…I can’t.
Boy bye. Don’t try to backtrack now. We heard you loud and clear the first time.
LOL. Did he really think this would stop the dragging he’s been getting. It’s just going to make it worse.
He needs to sit his a-s down somewhere. I’m so tired of these sellouts trying to distract us from progress.
I can’t I just can’t smh.
How you born in Harlem, lived in a shelter, had a brother killed by violence, but now you’ve got a change in location and a little bit of money suddenly you can’t relate? Negro please! #boycottasaprocky
I really despise stupid negroes that think just because they become celebs wit money that now White people see them as an equal..NO you’re just a ghetto classless drug using Black man wit money….and they are watching and waiting for you to fck up so they can let your Blk a$$ know it in a heartbeat…he will get his wake up call