Slim Thug Feels Black People “Aren’t Serious” About Reparations: “40 Acres And A Mule Is Outta Here” – Vibe

The rapper also opened up about dating, the plight of the Black struggle, and backlash he’s received.
By Mya Abraham
R&B Reporter
Slim Thug has thoughts, lots of them, on lots of topics. During a recent sit-down with Willie D, the rapper spoke his mind about dating, social media and the backlash he’s received, and most importantly, to him, whether the ancestors of America’s enslaved people are owed recompense.
During a recent sit-down with Willie D, the rapper spoke out on reparations. “I don’t even think that when we talk reparations, it’s enough people who even serious about it. Like stepping up for it to even get it done. It’s a couple people saying that, but everybody ain’t on that,” he noted.

Thug continued, “At the end of the day, my message to the world was ‘stop waiting on [the white man].’ But what I was tryna say is mindset. We ain’t waiting on nothing because it’s people who came over in our neighborhoods and making stuff happen and we can’t wait… If I was the President or how I believe reparations should be paid, [then] Black people shouldn’t have to pay taxes.”

The “I Run The Streets” emcee expressed, “I don’t trust them enough to ever give us that and I don’t want my people to wait on somebody to give them something.” And he does feel that having to pay taxes or college tuition is “fair.”
Thug added, “40 acres and a mule is outta here… But if people saying we want reparations, I believe that this is a way to say ‘I want reparations’ that might get granted.”
In a separate clip, he considered himself to be “Black-owned.”
Thug explained, “I don’t care if you like me or not. I don’t care if you agree with me or not because I am where I am without you. And I know who I am on another level like you can’t question my Blackness as a Black man ever because I’m Black-owned… I don’t even know no other rappers who own their catalog like Slim Thug.”
JAY-Z, Chance The Rapper, Ye, J. Cole, 21 Savage, and LL Cool J are among the select number of rapper who own their masters.
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