Rapper Young Thug was scheduled to fly Alaska Airlines from Atlanta to Seattle last Thursday, though somehow missed his flight, which caused him to miss his show. Rather than taking responsibility for missing his flight, he blamed Alaska Airlines.
So he took out his anger on the Alaska Airlines employees at the check-in desk in Atlanta, and made them a “generous” offer. He took out a Bentley branded bag and offered them each $15,000 cash to quit their jobs. They refused and asked him to stop pointing the camera at them, at which point he insulted them for their “nappy hair,” called them “peasants” and “ants,” etc. Here’s the video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNvEyIPBdnG/
Per BET:
“These two ants are so rude,” he taunts. “Look — these two ants are so rude, they’re peasants! They’re saying their manager is on the way. I don’t want to talk to the manager. Y’all are ants. Your manager is a peasant. And y’all are ants.”
After following up with the cash offer, he tells them, “I’m giving you bums one more chance.” When the ladies refuse to entertain Thugger, he directs the person behind the camera to “sink in” on the Black woman’s hair.
“Their hair nappy as a motherf**ker,” he laughs. Before continuing the slander, he expresses his nonchalance toward the manager, who the employees have informed is on the way to hopefully diffuse the situation. Not to mention, he attempts to shame the women by saying they are “African-looking.”
He got quite a bit of backlash on social media for his outburst, so apologized by explaining that the disrespect was just intended at these two “black burnt women,” and not all African American women…
He rescheduled his show in Seattle for December 12:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNvUzUQhBIX/
It’s sad to see there are people who look up to people like this, and many even see nothing wrong with what he did. Maybe Young Thug should fly private from now on?
This has to be the second worst airport outburst I’ve seen, after rapper Azealia Banks, who spit in another passenger’s face, punched him, and then called a flight attendant a f*ggot.
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