Lil Wayne 'Never Intended' To Desecrate American Flag

[alp227]

Here's a clarification to the story you've seen about the rapper who stomped on an American flag:

Lil Wayne caught a bit of heat on Monday when a video of him stepping on an American flag made the rounds on the Internet. But the clip, which outraged some, didn't tell the whole story.

"It was never my intention to desecrate the flag of the United States of America. I was shooting a video for a song off my album, entitled 'God Bless Amerika,' " Weezy said in a statement posted to his Facebook page on Tuesday (June 18).

In the clip, Wayne raps while standing in front of the American flag before it drops to the floor to reveal a number of residents from his native Hollygrove, New Orleans, neighborhood standing behind him. With the flag on the ground, Weezy continues his performance for the camera, in some instances walking over and on the stars and stripes — but that's not what fans were ever intended to see when the finished music video hit television and online. The wide shot caught in the clip allowed Internet viewers to see Wayne's feet, but the final cut would leave that angle out of the scene entirely.

"In most people eyes including my own who were raised in that environment, the Hood is the only America they know and the only America I knew growing up," he wrote on Facebook. "I was fortunate from my God giving talents to escape the Hood and see the other beautiful places this country has to offer but most people who are born in that environment don't get that chance. That's their view of their America.

The song below, lyrics here:

[GeorgeGist]

1. Sure thing ...

[Bluenorthwest]

2. He does not say he did not intend to step on the flag, he just says that part was not supposed

to be shown in his promotional video of his profit making business. He fully intended to step on the flag to get the shot, to promote his product, to sell, to make profit.
Fuck this guy, this grown businessman wallowing in profits. His anti gay hate songs and slurs make Paula Deen seem like the Mahatma, this tawdry greed machine sells hate and misogyny to buy himself things. He's the worst. Fuck Wayne.

[alp227]

4. Do you also count the flag-stomping as part of his "hate"?

But not when Rage Against the Machine burned a flag on stage?

[bike man]

3. If in fact he 'never intended' to desecrate the flag, why was it intentionally dropped

on the floor?

And the walking on it was only desecration because the viewers got to see the wide shot. One is only guilty of something if one is caught.

[name not needed]

5. Honestly, who gives a shit?

He stepped on a flag. Big whoop. Frankly, I'm more bothered he hasn't put out a worthwhile album since 2008.