Rubi Rose appeared on the Big Facts podcast on Tuesday (April 19) and clarified that her all-red attire and recent use of gang signs doesn’t make her a gang member. She merely threw up blood signs because it looked cool.
“I’m not actually a gang member,” the Kentucky rapper said. “I know that’s kind of like a joke on the internet. I was around gang members and I just like throwing their gang signs up because it’s cute. I love the color red. I’m in no way a gang member, though.”
The hosts immediately criticized Rubi for her flippant use of gang signs.
“I know, so that’s why I’ve chilled out,” she clarified. “I’ve loved the color red since I was a kid and my real name is Rubi Rose…then I moved to Atlanta and I started being around like bloods.”
When asked if she was “intrigued” by gang culture, Rubi Rose agreed and said it seemed “cool.”
“I know what be going on isn’t cool but like the colorful clothing and the hand signs and just being cool with the music, like that stuff is cool.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the “Loyal Dick” rapper also made some comments about Nicki Minaj that some Barbz fans saw as her throwing shade. After being asked what she looks for in a partner, Rubi Rose said she wants a man who makes more money than her, but added after pushback from DJ Scream that it wasn’t a dealbreaker.
“Then we can work it out,” she said. “I will help, of course, but I don’t want to be the man in the relationship. But I will. I see Nicki Minaj is happy.”
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A clip of the exchange immediately began making the rounds on social media, with many saying Rubi’s comments were disrespectful to Nicki and her husband, Kenneth Petty.
“I just be talking off the top of my head … I gotta chill. I never intend to be shady or mean tho, so cut that please,” Rose wrote in an Instagram story following the pushback.
“I didn’t mean it in a disrespectful way at all,” she additionally wrote in the clips comment section on social media. “I was just saying you can be happy with a man who makes less than you. I’ll say Britney Spears next.”
Check out the full interview below.
Until you’re laying face up in a morgue. That’s not something you want to play around with.
so she sucked off a bunch of bloods thanks for the info
She thinks it’s a joke, fuck around and get shot playing like that homie
@Rubi Rose: Ma you are fine as heck, but babe please stop playing with that gang shiz. There are some people who will take that as being real disrespectful. There are Damu and Rip men and women who will tear your pretty head off for playing with their culture because you think it is cool. I’m a grown azz man and I don’t bang yet I got family members who bang Blood-Damu; I got some friends who bang Crip. Having said that I never use the terms Dawg or Cuz, I stay in my lane and respect the culture. If a person Blood, Crip, G.D., etc. If you can’t claim your set when you are out-numbered by the opps then you ain’t really a Blood, Crip, G.D., etc. If you ain’t ready to die for what you claim then leave this alone because there are men and women who will pull your card. Slow down with your fine azz cause this shit is serious; All the real G’s whether you bang or not you know what I’m saying a brotha just trying to hit lil’ ma with that wisdom. Peace God, G7…
Lil wayne, Chris Brown, Soulja Toy and many others do the same, at least she’s honest about it……And I respect her for that!
i think you are a gang member. if not directly then indirectly. like cardi b and nicki minaj putting hits out on people with the bloods who offend them online. hey its all fun and games until a member of your family becomes a sex play thing for gang members to fuck around with. or when a member of your family is killed in a homicide that looks like an accident. shit that’s the reality of part of it. but you do what you do that’s the bottom line if it makes you happy.
Nah nah nah darlin!! U done got twisted. Doing gangbangz don’t mean you a gang member!