On the other hand, there were quite a few that weren’t ready to jump on the Free Flacko bandwagon, just yet. In response to the petition and boycott, many highlighted his old anti-black statements and pulled the rapper’s response to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson.
“I thought of this when I heard about Asap Rocky’s situation in Sweden,” ”The Read” host Crissle wrote, with a screenshot of Rocky’s statement, which read: “I’m just gonna stay black and die. Why, because I’m black? So every time something happens because I’m black I gotta stand up?”
“I don’t wanna talk about no fucking Ferguson and shit because I don’t live over there! I live in fucking Soho and Beverly Hills,” he said. “I can’t relate.”