Omari Hardwick’s weighing in on the backlash Snoop Dogg, Nelly, Soulja Boy, and Rick Ross got for performing at Donald Trump’s Crypto Ball -- and he’s sharing his thoughts exclusively with TMZ Hip Hop.
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00:00I
00:02Missed the Harvick. How are you? I know that you're promoting Star Trek coming. I love that for you
00:07So, you know, we got to put it out there
00:09I'm happy to see you working and doing Star Trek because we got to address of course
00:12The comments made by 50 have you spoken to him since he said that you over
00:18Get that we never don't so even when he said that I'm happy to hear this
00:24Did you say anything to him like I didn't really like that or
00:27No
00:28Well, I he wants me to value myself. I love that for you. Okay, wait
00:33So if I don't know if you want to talk about this
00:35But hip-hop is kind of mad at Snoop and all these people Nelly, you know performing for Donald Trump
00:41But years ago Chrisette Michelle did it and we kind of like, you know, like the hip-hop hip-hop community
00:46It's kind of like Chrisette, you know
00:47We don't want to talk to you anymore
00:48And she's been kind of quiet since and then now Nelly's Snoop has followed and now they're all with Trump
00:53I'm a costume
00:55They're gonna cook it. What are you gonna say? I can't tell you
01:00Well, I mean time I see you. I'll tell you what he said. Should we just stop
01:05Making people choose a side like him like should hip-hop just accept where people want to go and what they want to do
01:10Like why do we care so much? So when you say hip-hop, you know, what's interesting about hip-hop is it's always I've always
01:17felt that one of the beautiful things about hip-hop is
01:21It is allowed for someone's story to be the one that they feel they should be telling that day in that verse
01:29And so I we got a you know
01:32We got to give each other permission to perhaps have some motives that could be benefiting us
01:37The hip-hop community and no culture and knowing that we might not know their motives
01:42We got to give them an opportunity to maybe explain it on their own terms, right?
01:46So a seat at the table is better than no seat at the table
01:48Cuz sometimes when you don't have a seat at the table you become a part of the menu at the table. I love that
01:56Appreciate you