Lil Wayne stirred up some controversy while speaking to Fat Joe about the police killing of George Floyd on his Instagram Live show last month.
When asked about fired Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin “stepping on his neck and all of that,” Wayne replied, “We have to stop viewing it from such a broad view, meaning we have to stop placing the blame on the whole force and the whole everybody of a certain race, everybody with a badge,” which promptly led to an onslaught of backlash.
During a recent episode of Young Money Radio, Wayne once again reminded his fans a white police officer, Deputy Robert Hoobler, saved his life when he was 12 years old.
“My life was saved when I was young,” he said. “Shot myself. My life was saved by a white cop. Uncle Bob. So from, therefore, you have to understand the way I view police, period. … There was a bunch of black cops that jumped over me by that door with that hole in my chest. He refused to.”
Wayne detailed the incident during his I Am Hip Hop Award acceptance speech at the BET Hip Hop Awards in 2018.
“There’s a man in New Orleans,” Wayne recalled. “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.”
Despite Wayne’s positive interaction with Hoober, he reportedly has a seedy past. According to NOLA.com, Hoobler was fired from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Department in 2012 after repeatedly tasing a Marrero, Louisiana man during an arrest. He allegedly called the victim a “stupid n*gger” during the confrontation.
Lil Wayne Applauds White Cop Who Saved His Life During 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards Speech
Elsewhere in the episode, Wayne touched on the militarized police in New Orleans.
“I’m from New Orleans, 17th, Hollygrove,” Wayne continued. “We have a thing called ‘Jump out boys.’ Uptown New Orleans. That’s the police. They pull up on you they already got they door cracked. … So many of them jump out. They ain’t coming after you to ask you ‘How you doing? What’s your name? And how’s your day?’
“Understand that I go through situations too,” Wayne said. “We all got our situations. Don’t judge no one for no reason. Don’t judge. Do you. … Help out in any way that you can. We can only win it together.”
Watch the clip above.
I was fresh out of college and catching up with old buddies in my hometown. Got completely wasted, smoked a lot of weed. I was toasted. I didn’t have a license and hit a woman’s car on my way home. Like, four grown men get out the car with her and surround me. The lady demands cash — because, naturally, she saw I was fly — and said if I didn’t pay up, the four dudes were jumping me. Across the street, a cop standing patrol over a night club saw the build up and came over before the guys could jump me. The woman and guys snitched, told the officer I was drunk and high and had no license. The black cop said, “I’m going to give you a break, because before I was a cop, a cop gave me a break. Park this car, sober up, drive straight home, and tomorrow get your license.” He made the five goons disperse, and I did exactly as he said. To Wayne’s point, there are good cops out there.
Cops need to clean up the force. Black people need to clean up their community. White people need to confront their privileged and bigoted psyche. We all have work to do. Start with yourself, then your community, then outside of your community. Just because America needs improvement doesn’t mean it’s a ‘bad’ country or that you’re not patriotic. I love my house, but I don’t deny when something needs to be fixed. If you keep denying it, the house will fall apart. I’m not going back to Africa. You’re not going back to England. This is our house. Let’s work on it.
True, true.
Best comment I’ve read on here in awhile.
This is phenomenal commentary . Thanks you , Stormcloak.
Well Spoken!
Wise words. This guy knows what’s up!
If Blacks were the top demographic in this country and used the government to fuck over a white minority for centuries, having a lasting effect of forcing them to play catchup due to detrimental public policies like the war on drugs, 3 strikes law written by Biden, the dumping of crack in the hood by Ronald Reagan aka Iran-Contra, red lining communities for economic discrimination while pumping money into other communities based on race, forcing men out of the home in exchange for entitlements, which lead to millions of dysfunctional fatherless homes, whites would be in a fucked up situation today, just like lower class blacks. The problem is more complex than the “clean up your communities” cliché. And the government can’t solve the problem either, but it can definitely stop exacerbating it.
Stormcloak has me until the white privilege comments. You’re an idiot. So the average white man is more ‘privileged’ than Oprah, Lebron, Michael Jordan, Magic, etc? That kind of talk is so degrading to minorities. You’re telling us we aren’t worth anything and that whites are born better than us. Stop being an idiot. That privilege excuse is for the stupid people out there too lazy to make anything of themselves in this country. It’s easy to blame another race for your shortcomings, or your mamas drug habit.
Hey man up, do some fuckin research, and then comeback? Ever heard of the crack era? Who put who where? Just like wealth can be passed down….you know what I’m not wasting anymore time on this. Have a blessed life!
I am one of the few who knows ALL of American history. Black people had their own communities and they were flourished until the government allowed Crack to be introduced and it changed the game we play. People of color had their own stock market 99 years ago and it was destroyed with its town by bigots. People have been protesting in America for change for forever. It is our history. How then can one say that we are the best and say “We the people” on official legal documents yet not follow those same practices that the entire philosophy/premise of your country is about. IJS
How dare lil wayne use critical thinking and understanding
Psh going against the narrative, what an asshole….
No bullshit, it takes courage to speak your true feelings, especially when it goes against the mob mentality. I have tons of respect for lil wayne and Kanye for not being liberal pawns
in my experiences i have witnessed a lot of corruption with police.
I see the caucasian kahk is cemented in his mouth underneath his platinum teeth. I guess once that sugary caucasian penal cord has been in your diabetic mouth, you feel it is your duty to let eat a load of the white man’s dna.