It’s been almost six months since T.I. took to Instagram to tell Lil Wayne to stop the “buffoonery & coonin’” regarding his Black Lives Matter comment during an interview with ABC’s Nightline. But the two longtime friends have still not spoken to each other, Tip recently revealed in an interview with SXSW obtained by Baller Alert.
As the Atlanta native sits on the stage with Sway, he takes questions from the audience. An editor from BallerAlert.com asks him had they spoken. Tip answers:
“I ain’t spoke to lil’ bro. That was probably one of the most difficult responses or one of the most difficult tasks I have been faced with…I was speaking to him but I know that my words weren’t necessarily going to affect him as much as they would the people who were following behind. We can’t allow the fans and followers of lil’ bro to think that ‘Okay, well if he said it and don’t nobody address it, it must be cool. So then I can go ahead and feel like this too.’ But no, then you got a little army of people going around and that’s counterproductive to the movement. I just wanted to let people know, ‘No this ain’t right. This ain’t cool. This ain’t what’s up.’ It wasn’t even in any way for me to attempt to be disrespectful to him but just to let everybody know this ain’t cool.”