Styles P Responds to Backlash Over Trump Preference: "I Like to Deal with My Racism Straight Up"
Styles P is providing a retort to The Notorious B.I.G.’s former manager, who called out The LOX rapper for saying he preferred Donald Trump as president over current Commander-In-Chief Joe Biden.
“I’ve been called a lot of things in my life. I’ve never been called disingenuous,” he said of Jacob York, who also managed Cam’ron and Lil Kim. “Normally, the old me would have gotten mad. I didn’t even get mad. That’s how he feel, so I didn’t even choose to get mad. But here’s how I choose to see it: Touré asked me about the presidency. See, Jacob put the video like I choose Trump over Biden. I said I preferred Trump over Biden because I like to deal with my racism straight up.”
He continued: “When Trump was in office, you spoke about racism with your white co-worker. You spoke about racism at your barbershop. You knew your enemy was there. Whether you have a loud racist or a quiet racist, they’re both racist.”
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Styles concluded by asking York to agree to disagree and end the social media discussion.
On Tuesday (August 29), York claimed the Yonkers native made a “b******t” statement.
“Styles is my boy so no disrespect to him. This argument is b******t,” York said in a video he shared on Instagram. “At the end of the day, the logic that I would want a racist with his finger on the trigger, then someone who may be racist and I don’t know? That’s the craziest s**t. It’s like saying I want a gun to my face then maybe there being a possibility that someone drive by and shoot me. Nah, I don’t want either, right?”
He continued: “At the end of the day, a lot of especially Black men that come from the hood in a certain age group are still shell shocked. They hide their misogyny and their bigotry behind this illusion that they’re intellectuals because they succeeded, right?”
During an interview with the Touré Show posted earlier this week, Styles P explained how he appreciated Trump’s overt racism over Biden’s supposed covert version through policy.
“We were in crisis now but – I’d rather you have you tell me you don’t like me and know you don’t like me and you inform me than me have to guess it or you secretly don’t like me but you telling me you don’t like me,” he said. “I think the government been doing that for ages. I’d rather deal with clear racism – just someone being who they are and letting you know where they come from.”
