During a recent stop on Quenlin Blackwell’s cooking show, Lil Yachty dismissed Black Lives Matter as a “scam.”
“BLM is a scam… BLM was literally a scam. They had bought mansions,” Boat said, referencing allegations that BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors bought a $6 million L.A. mansion in 2020 with fundraising donations.
BLM fired back at Yachty with a sternly worded statement.
“It’s clear Lil Yachty has been drinking the white supremacist ideology Kool-Aid,” Black Lives Matter reportedly stated to the outlet. “His comments are wrong. They are misinformed, unoriginal, and crafted to please the same people who profit from Black suffering. The real scam isn’t Black Lives Matter. It is watching Black artists with massive platforms recycle the same tired attacks on Black movements while ignoring the actual systems killing us. Black Lives Matter has supported Black families who have lost loved ones to police violence. We have built programs, funded mutual aid, and fought in courtrooms and on the streets to protect our people.”
Boat vs. BLM, who you got?