Straight away, I want to make this clear: I'm down with Gunplay and everything he's got going on with this recent Def Jam solo deal. The guy's been snubbed by Rick Ross and Maybach for too long, and it couldn't be better to see his name rotating in the daily buzz. That being said, the recent successes of his career might be attaining a wrong eye from the public, as his explanation for the swastika tattooed rather prominently on his neck will probably put a few itches on your run-of-the-mill moral man.
Here's how he justified it in a recent interview with Pigeons & Planes:
"It's just my symbol of genocide to the bullsh*t. Mass murdering the bullsh*t. Too much bullsh*t out here. I came to Nazi that sh*t. I came to Hitler that motherf*cker. Put all the fake motherf*ckers in the gas chamber and gas your f*ck ass. That's what I'm here to do.
"So n*ggas better walk light around a n*gga. I'ma show n*ggas. I can talk, but I'ma show n*ggas. All that fake sh*t, I'ma call that sh*t out and I'ma stomp that sh*t out. I got a mission. Just playing the game for the meantime."
If you really read it for what it is, then you won't find much of a problem with it outside of poor choice of wording. The whole Hitler and gas chamber bit will probably piss people off, but so it goes. I'm kind of surprise he didn't go the "it's representative of the postive Native America motifs carried by nations such as the Navajo and Hopi," but better the truth than a cover up to keep the media complacent.
Anyway, that's that. Lupe Fiasco will probably have something to say over the issue. Maybe he'll even write a song about it.
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