Rapper Lil Wayne can’t catch a break. The 33-year-old New
Orleans native appears in an Apartments.com ad that will
air during the Super Bowl.
Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr .,
appears alongside character actor Jeff Goldblum (‘Jurassic
Park’) and a man dressed up as George Washington.
The trio watch the Super Bowl together in an upscale
apartment while the theme from The ‘Jefferson’s’, “Movin’
On Up”, plays in the background. Black Twitter took issue
with Carter appearing alongside Washington, who once
owned slaves. But Carter’s camp sees nothing wrong with
the ad.
They say the ad is “meant to be funny and silly and not the
least bit offensive.”Besides, the ad pays good money and
Carter needs all the money he can get right now. Sheriff’s
deputies raided Carter’s Miami mansion in November and
seized his $30 million collection of art to enforce a $2
million judgment against him.
Carter sparked controversy in 2013 when he released a
remix track that including a vulgar reference to civil rights
icon Emmett TillTill a 14-year-old Chicago boy who was
murdered by racists in Mississippi in 1955.
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