Rapper Meek Mill defends Rick Ross’ ‘U.O.E.N.O.’ lyric
theGRIO REPORT - Meek called rap 'imaginary visual,' comparing the violent nature of rap music to screenwriters inserting a scene of sexual assault into a script...
While Rick Ross is still feeling the heat from his ill-advised date rape lyric on Rocko’s “U.O.E.NO,” which has since been removed, at least one rapper is defending the Miami rapper’s choice of words.
Fellow Maybach Music rapper Meek Mill weighed in on the lyric controversy, and made it clear he had his boss’ back.
The Philly emcee told the Urban Informer, “I don’t even care about nobody criticizing no lyrics. People rap about killing stuff all day. Biggie said, ‘Rape your kid, throw her over the bridge’ back then, it was nothing, it was just hip-hop. Now you got all these weirdos on these social sites voicing their opinion about something anybody say.”
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The Biggie verse, that Meek misquoted, is from the 90s cut “What’s Beef” found on the album Life After Death, a line that was in reference to convicted killer and child molester Wayne Williams from Atlanta.
“Don’t they know my ni**a Gutter f**kin’ kidnap kids? / F**k em in the *ss, throw ’em over the bridge?”
“U.O.E.N.O.,” unlike “What’s Beef,” was never pushed as a radio single.
Meek called rap “imaginary visual,” comparing the violent nature of rap music to screenwriters inserting a scene of sexual assault into a script.
“I don’t care, I’m from the hood. I never really cared about what nobody saying in no rap. Rap’s always been talking about killing, drugs, all types of stuff. So you can’t just criticize no one thing nobody say. It’s imaginary visual. If a writer write about somebody getting raped in a movie, that mean he a rapist or he want girls to get raped? No, he just wrote about that in a movie.”
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