“I want to inspire.
I want promote peace, because at a time like this, I don’t have all the answers.
I’m not trying to run for Congress.
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I’m not trying to run for office.
I don’t have all the answers, you know what I’m saying?”
“I hate when the bandwagon stuff starts,” A$AP Rocky added.
“How come black lives only matter when a police officer takes it?
It should matter when a black life takes it.
It should always matter.
All lives matter.”
“So every time something happens because I’m black I gotta stand up?
What the f am I, Al Sharpton now?
I’m A$AP Rocky,“he told Time Out New York.
I live in fing Soho and Beverly Hills.
I can’t relate.”
Portions of the interview resurfaced this week onsocial media.
He added, “The racism is real.
I don’t go to middle America cities.
We’re in the major markets.
…. We don’t know how they get along.
What I see and make a run at promote is unity.
It sounds cliche but n-s need love.”
Look, I’m not his lawyer, but I do know he’s innocent.
In the eyes of the law, they said he’s innocent.
You get what I’m saying?
So, nobody talks about that.
You get what I’m saying?
And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.”
Watch the rapper’s full interview onThe Breakfast Clubbelow.
