Lil Wayne Addresses Flag Trampling Controversy

  /  06.18.2013

Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne is facing more heat from critics. While shooting a video for his new single “God Bless Amerika” in his hometown of New Orleans, the Young Money rapper was seen walking on the American flag.

TMZ claimed he was “trampling” it, but Wayne says it wasn’t done on purpose. In a statement released via Facebook, he explains that the scene was set up for a camera trick. The flag dropped to the floor to reveal faces from his Hollygrove neighborhood as he continued performing with the flag under his feet.

“It was never my intention to desecrate the flag of the United States of America,” said Weezy. “In the final edit of the video you will see the flag fall to reveal what is behind it but will never see it on the ground.”

Read his full statement below.

“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.’ The clip that surfaced on the Internet was a camera trick clip that revealed that behind the American Flag was the Hoods of America. In the final edit of the video you will see the flag fall to reveal what is behind it but will never see it on the ground. 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. 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. That was Dwayne M Carter from Hollygrove New Orleans view of America. That’s who I’m speaking for in this song.”

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