Lil Twist Responds To Reports That He Accepted Weed Charges To Protect Justin Bieber’s Career
In a new interview, Lil Twist talked about many things including his career, what his experience has been like on “Growing Up Hip-Hop” and his friendship with Justin Bieber, who recently admitted that he has benefited off of “black culture” while vowing to fight for racial injustice.
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While speaking with Mina SayWhat on Mina’s House podcast Wednesday, Twist recalled what it was like being friends with the singer. He admitted that during his friendship he did take some legal heat early in his career to protect Justin Bieber’s image at the request of the singer’s team.
“If they would have put weed charges on Justin in his early career, it would have been bad on him,” Twist started to explain. “So I got a call one day saying, ‘Twist, do you really love this kid?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ They said, ‘Cool, if you love him then you can take the heat for him because you can come off a little weed charge. You’re associated with Lil Wayne. You’re a rapper.'”
Twist said that although he wasn’t even present for a lot of those crazy stories involving Justin Bieber, like his DUI arrest, he still caught some heat for the it. “Then it got to a point where I didn’t even have to be there at times and they were putting it ‘Twist did it, Twist did it, Twist did it.’ It became overwhelming,” he claims. The rapper only brought that up to point out how WeTV has given him a platform to show that he’s really not the bad guy “white America tries to paints me out to be,” and despite all of that, Twist made it clear that he still has love for the Biebs.
A source familiar with the situation reached out to Page Six and said that, while “Justin and Twist don’t have a relationship anymore, Justin wishes Twist well and finds these comments unfortunate and completely untrue.”
Twist also released a statement on his Instagram. He said,
“While promoting my TV show, the subject of certain events with Bieber were brought up, and in the spirit of being authentic, I felt it a disservice to my fans and the general public to not be completely transparent about my experience. I believe that if you truly support the Black Lives Matter movement, Black people, and Black culture, your actions have to reflect that.”
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