Lil Wayne:Rapper not down with BLM movement

The #BlackLivesMatter movement blew up in the news again, but this time it wasn’t to their approval. As desperate as the attempt was, there was no way to censor Lil Wayne’s comments on Live Television.
“What is it? What do you mean? That just sounds weird,”
Lil Wayne states when asked about the #BlackLivesMatter movement. He continued by saying,
“I don’t know, that you put a name on it… It’s not a name; it’s not, ‘whatever whatever.’ It’s somebody got shot by a policeman for a f****d up reason.”
With statements like these, social media and people all over the world exploded in a state of exclaim, claiming to just ultimately take his “Black Card” away from him. Fans, associated artists, and articles from #BlackLiveMatter activists have stemmed their dislike in what Wayne has stated, but has anyone truly stopped to realize why he would say such things.
According to biography.com, Lil Wayne, a New Orleans native named Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, was picked up and mentored in rapping at the early age of 9 by Cash Money Records owner Birdman, Bryan Williams. He rose through the ranks as the youngest on the label and quickly rose to stardom. He was an honor student from primary to secondary school as he attended McMain Magnet School in New Orleans, but dropped out at 14. After dropping out, he focused more on his music career and in 1996, joined the Hot Boys where he shared his famous verse in “Back that A** Up”. After years with the group he left and co-founded with Birdman YMCMB, Young Money Cash Money Billionaires, creating albums and recruiting big stars like Drake and Nicki Minaj. With so much under his belt it is hard to believe that this honor student would call the #BLM movement pointless, or is it.
Being picked up as a rapper at such a young age, it is quite simple to explain why he has never experienced racism. According to Swiss Philosopher and Psychologist Jean Piaget, kids from the age 13 and up go through the stage of formal, logical thought. At this stage, people are able to anticipate possible consequences of their actions and decisions as well as formulate their own ideology about life, and freedom and what they meant to them.
Once he started going through this phase, he had experienced little to no racism due to his connection to the music world and connection to his academics. The only experience he faced at the time about white cops was when he accidentally shot himself and it was a white officer, who was off duty, who came to his aide while fellow officers of his pigment passed him by only worried about the illegal drugs in the home.
Yes, he worded what he said on the interview in a way that people didn’t agree with, but he knows what he said and he worded it the way he wanted. He hasn’t experienced racism the way others have who was not fortunate enough to become famous so if he feels the way he feels, let him. He spoke his mind the way he wanted to and if people are upset about what he said, they should be more upset with the fact that a Presidential Candidate who supported stop and frisk is now the President-Elect.