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A$AP Rocky has been catching some heat for comments he made during a 2015 interview with Time Out, that some people perceived as anti-Black Lives Matter.
"They're not forcing me to do shit. I'm just gonna stay black and die. Why, because I'm black? So every time something happens because I'm black I gotta stand up? What the fuck am I, Al Sharpton now? I'm A$AP Rocky. I did not sign up to be no political activist," Rocky said at the time. "I wanna talk about my motherfuckin' 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 fucking Ferguson and shit because I don't live over there! I live in fucking Soho and Beverly Hills. I can't relate. I'm in the studio; I'm in these fashion studios; I'm in these bitches' drawers. I'm not doing anything outside of that. That's my life."
The 26-year old New York City native sat down with The Breakfast Club on Wednesday, July 20, to clarify what he meant.
"You got your favorite rappers today. I don't know if it's Thug, Future, Drake. You don't always here their content about the political shit or all that other shit," he said. "I feel like, why put put me on a pedestal for that? Especially 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 Congress. I wanna promote prosperity. Especially for black people. Especially for just young people, ambitious people, underprivileged. I'm not here to talk about supremacy. I'm not here to talk about who's dominant.
"It's fucked up," the rapper continued. "Especially, being in London and looking at it from a different perspective. It's really sad because you come over here and you feel it. Before I thought they were just trying to gas it for the world to make it look like America's a bunch of idiots and shit like that, and this racism shit is really big. Coming back here, it's the truth. You can feel it. You can feel the energy, you can feel the tension, you can feel the separation. This shit is wack. How come black lives only matter a police officer takes it? It should be like black lives should ... it should matter when a black life takes it. All lives matter."
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