Black Lives Matter responds to Lil Yachty declaring it 'a scam'

The Black Lives Matter organisation has come out firing in response to Lil Yachty declaring it 'a scam'

The Atlanta rapper shared his opinions on Quenlin Blackwell's Feeding Starving Celebrities cooking series.

"BLM is a scam," Yachty replied when asked about his own recent philanthropic endeavours. "BLM was literally a scam."

He went on to reference reports of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors purchasing a $6 million (£4.6 million) mansion in Los Angeles with alleged funds from the organisation in 2020.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation responded to Yachty when reached out to for comment by Fox News.

"It's clear Lil Yachty has been drinking the white supremacist ideology Kool-Aid. His comments are wrong. They are misinformed, unoriginal, and crafted to please the same people who profit from Black suffering."

The organisation continued: "The real scam isn't Black Lives Matter. It is watching Black artists with massive platforms recycle the same tired attacks on Black movements while ignoring the actual systems killing us.

"Black Lives Matter has supported Black families who have lost loved ones to police violence. We have built programs, funded mutual aid, and fought in courtrooms and on the streets to protect our people."

Lil Yachty isn't the first rapper to call Black Lives Matter a scam. Kanye West also referred to it as a scam in a post to his Instagram Story in 2022.