Lil Wayne was this year’s recipient of BET’s I Am Hip Hop award at the 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards. As part of his acceptance speech, Lil Tunechi recalled the day a white cop he calls Uncle Bob saved his life.
He was 12 years old when he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a New Orleans apartment. As people scrambled to get out of the building, Uncle Bob made sure to get young Weezy help. When EMS refused to take him by ambulance, Uncle Bob took matters into his own hands.
“There’s a man in New Orleans,” Wayne said. “His name is Uncle Bob. Came into an apartment one day, he bust in the door, guns drawn. He saw nobody. He saw legs on the floor. It was my legs. He saw blood everywhere. A bunch of police hopped over me, he refused to do so.
“I never knew — I talked to him the other day — I never knew EMS was on the scene. He said EMS tried twice and they told him there’s nothing. He refused to let that die. Forget an ambulance, he brought me to the hospital himself. He refused to wait, kicked in the doors and said, ‘Do whatever you gotta do to make sure this child make it.’ Not only that, that day Uncle Bob was a homicide detective. He was off on detail. He just heard the call and came. Not only did he refuse to sit … he refused to leave. He stayed and made sure I made it.”
Of course, Wayne has told this story before. In fact, he once used it to explain why he didn’t believe in racism.
“Yeah, he was a cop, and my life was saved by a white man,” he said in a 2016 interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t know what racism is. I know a good nigga named Uncle Bob, though. He was white as snow. Them niggas that hopped over me were blacker than me. [He] stood there and waited until the doctor said, ‘He’s gonna make it.’”
Check out the speech above and check out the footage from the I Am Hip Hop segment below.
Imagine not only heroically saving someone’s life, but that they went on to become the biggest star in the world between 2007 and 2012. Especially a child in New Orleans, they could easily just join a gang and become another statistic within five years, or at least end up doing nothing with their life. This was divine, cosmic intervention. I don’t even really like Weezy, but this is a really great story.
Wayne back on that he don’t know what racism shit is….? Worse than any any any of that CRAZy Kanye shit said. Twoeeee I spit on ya wayne…
What follows will be a public crucifixion of Lil Wayne. How dare he say anything good about white people? How dare he not use the platform to blame everything on white people and publicly call for their genocide? How fuckin dare he. We know his whitey-hating-j.ev.vish handlers finna get his ass blackballed in the industry. Or maybe they find some woman who will come forward with some bullshit ass #MeToo story. This is how they operate, look at the Kavanaugh case.
Gtfo with that bullshit, go post this rhetoric on a Fox News forum or an infowars site if they’re still available lol!
I rather watch fox or info wars then the facist CNN
*fascist. Do you even know what fascism is? I doubt it.
Has T.I. already penned an open letter accusing Weezy of wrongthink?
Funny in his speech i didn’t notice Lil Wayne say this uncle Bob fella is white? The editor must have some strange obsession about race.
I think Lil Wayne made a point of not saying it that time.
Bob’s ya uncle
Plot twist: Uncle Bob is actually Cheddar Bob from 8 Mile movie
Aren’t all cops blue? I dont understand
Funny how it’s white people that are most sensitive about race nowadays.
LOL – what’s next? G EZ, snoop and John legend gonna call him out?? SNL next skit maybe? Wayne a real one
T.I. finna send an open letter to address Wayne’s c00nery.
lol
How many times is he goin to tell this story. We get it..ihe meet a good one ..however where was bob when alton sterling was killed. He tryin to save face for that bs no racism comment. FOH T!
If Uncle Bob was black, you would beg for dude to tell the story again like “please mister weezy tell us the story about the gud boi uncle Bob again, please mister” like a child.
Black white mexican…dont matter. Hes only tellin this story to justify his comment. Period.
Next: New York Times conducts some extensive research to find out if this uncle Bob character really exists. Because white people being capable of doing anything good is a myth. All they can do is keep a brotha down.
Would be funnier if his name was Tom
Now das funny mayn
What about those who paved the way? How we get to Wayne (who is dope by the way)? Shouldn’t there be a certain order? Run DMC, LL Cool J? Beastie Boys? Rakim?
All three beastie boys je.vv.i.sh. Typical culture vultures. Rick Rubin who produced Beastie Boys album also happens to be a je.vv.i.sh. And we are told they only make up 2-3% of US population; yet they are grossly overrepresented in media, entertainment, finance, NGOs. Half the people in white house are dual i.s.raeli citizens.
Thank you for reminding us Racism exists.
Lil Wayne said on his 2015 track London roads that uncle Bob was dead now he saying he spoke to him he other day….wtf Wayne are you high or just lying to us
b.e.t is not Hip Hop but a fuckn rnb channel.