Charlamagne tha God slams Biden for calling LL Cool J ‘boy’ and says the president used a ‘white racist word’
Charlamagne tha God slams Biden for calling LL Cool J ‘boy’ and says the president used a ‘white racist word’
- The Breakfast Club host slammed the president for misstating LL Cool J’s name and calling him ‘boy’
- Criticized POTUS as ‘inauthentic’ after gaffe at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation event
- He awarded Biden his ‘Donkey of the Day’ on Saturday for the blunder
Radio host Charlamagne tha God has slammed the president for messing up LL Cool J’s name and using a “racist” term to refer to him at an event honoring the artist.
The Breakfast Club host criticized Biden for calling LL Cool J “boy” during a speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner on Saturday.
Biden spoke at the event, which honored those who have made an impact on society, including award recipient James Todd Smith, aka LL Cool J.
But when he took the stage, he butchered the rapper’s name by calling him “LL J Cool J.” He then caused further outrage by calling the star, 55, a “boy” before hastily correcting himself.
Biden, 80, said: “By the way, that guy — that guy has biceps bigger than my thighs.”
The blunder prompted left-wing radio host Charlamagne to call Biden his ‘Donkey of the Day’.
Breakfast Club host Charlamage Tha God awarded Joe Biden his ‘Donkey of the Day’ for a gaffe in which he saw butcher-rapper LL Cool J’s name and called him the racially charged term “boy”
He said: “He fully understands the word boy in the racial context surrounding a white man, referring to a black man, is boy.
“Look, boy is definitely a white supremacist word when used in any context. And I know that because I’m from South Carolina.
“If someone uses the word boy to refer to an adult black man and the speaker is white, that takes on a whole different point in context.”
The word boy, when used by white people to refer to backward men, is a historically charged term that has been used to indicate superiority during slavery and afterward.
Charlamagne also pointed out that LL Cool J is far from a new or emerging artist, so there was little excuse to twist his name.
Biden introduced rapper and fellow award winner DJ MC Lyte as “two of the great artists of our time, representing the groundbreaking legacy of hip-hop in America.”
But Charlamagne, 45, again condemned POTUS for being “inauthentic” in his praise.
He added: “This is a great example of the fact that it doesn’t matter how many black people you have around you, it doesn’t matter how many black people you have in your administration… If it’s not authentic to him, then neither are they. appear authentic to everyone.’
President Biden (pictured at the Congressional Black Caucus event) has been accused of making racist comments toward LL Cool J and being inauthentic
Rapper, actor and producer LL Cool J was honored Saturday at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
He also attacked the president’s age, dismissing the octogenarian as “137 years old.”
He said, “Joe Biden shouldn’t need a teleprompter to know there aren’t two J’s in LL Cool J. Okay. LL Cool J is a man who has been rapping since President Joe Biden was my age.”
LL Cool J burst onto the scene in 1984 with his song ‘I Need a Beat’ and was one of the first American rappers to achieve commercial success.
The two-time Grammy Award winner became the first rapper to receive the Kennedy Music Honors in 2017 and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The incident is not the first time the president has been accused of racial insensitivity for using the same term. In February, he faced backlash after calling Maryland’s first black governor, 44-year-old West Moore, a “boy.”
Biden also previously courted controversy with Charlamagne and was forced to apologize after appearing on the host’s show and saying voters “aren’t black” if they vote for Donald Trump.