Lil Wayne Debunks Retirement Rumors, Claims He's Blessed To Have Never Dealt With Racism
Everyone's favorite maybe/not retired rapper Lil Wayne made an appearance this morning on Undisputed BKA ESPN's pity-program for Skip Bayless BKA the most hated man in sports journalism. Everything about this equation is already wrong, and the fact that Wayne's new track "No Mercy" is now the show's theme song doesn't make it any less bat-shit crazy.
All that aside, Weezy used his guest spot to address the rumors of his retirement (which he himself sparked with a flurry depression-ridden tweets,) breaking off from label-chief/adopted daddy Birdman for good and his "no guest spot" policy on making records (patently false: never made an album/mixtape with less than 10 features.) And then there's the "blessings." Now, at this point in the interview it becomes painfully difficult to tell whether the NOLA GOAT is in denial or just plain old delusional, but to claim that he as a 33-year-old black man that grew up in the south, has never dealt with any form of racism in his professional or civilian career, seems bold to say the absolute-most-objective-as-humanly-possible least.
To be fair, Wayne warned us that we might not want his take on race relations, professing that three years of Black Live Matter have whizzed by him without the ability to truly grasp the movement's direction (kind of ridiculous, but I get it: Wayne belongs to a generation of apolitical rappers and we shouldn't expect him to get on the front lines now.) Actually, he said that seconds before Bayless asked him, which is just fishing for clickbait as far as this writer's concerned. But it looks like the great polarizer of sports has found a way to infiltrate hip-hop by putting a beloved rapper in precisely the spot he explicitly asked not to be in.
He didn't seem terribly phased by it, but then again, Wayne's not shook by much these days (particularly not racism, it appears.) He expressed his gratitude for the support in a track late last week, so it doesn't seem there's much weight to this whole "retirement" thing. In any case, you can watch the interview in full down below. Be warned there are also ramblings of various topical sports happenings (Durant moving west, the NFL's best QB, etc.)
