Michael Rubin Calls Out Hate In Black Community, Defends Meek Mill Against Gay Jokes
Meek Mill has become a constant target of jokes over the years for a variety of reasons. Michael Rubin, the owner of Fanatics and his good friend, recently called out the hate in the Black community and defended the Philadelphia rapper against jokes about him being homosexual.
Rubin joined The Breakfast Club this week, where the topic of the “Going Bad” rapper’s infamous bunny-hopping video came up. The former Philadelphia 76ers minority stake owner did not find the jokes as amusing as the rest of the community.
“When I see the narrative of, a really good friend of mine like Meek, and people are trying to… Again, if he was gay — which there’s not one gay bone in his body — who cares, number one,” he said. “If people wanna be gay, it is 2024. Who the f**k cares? Number two, there’s not a gay bone in his body, so why do people wanna lie about that? Why do people want to change the narrative of a bet he made with me to hurt him?”
Michael Rubin generalized his thoughts to the entire Black community in a statement that has drawn the ire of many people. “That is the one thing I’ve learned about, you know, look, I’m just being blunt because it’s me,” he began. “It’s the one thing I’ve learned about Black culture that I don’t like is that Black hate on hate.”
Charlamagne Tha God encouraged Rubin to elaborate more on his thoughts, to which he replied “Yeah, it’s horrible… Why does somebody want to bring somebody else down? Let’s try to build everybody up. I’d be more excited to see one of my friends do something that’s 99% less meaningful to me but it would be meaningful to them because I want them to do great.”
Rubin did take a step back and open himself up to be corrected by Charlamagne and DJ Envy, but he stood firm in his stance that internal hate in the Black community is unfortunate for him to see. “I think there’s a little bit of a Black culture of Black hate on hate, like that Black judge that Meek had that hated on him and wanted to go extra hard on him,” he said. “It’s what people always say to me, like ‘Black hate on hate.’ I think it’s terrible. I think it’s culturally wrong.”
One redeeming aspect of Michael Rubin’s rant was he acknowledged that he wasn’t the best messenger for this claim. “I’m probably going to get killed for saying this because I’m a white rich guy,” to which Charlamagne Tha God replied, “I’m glad you’re saying it openly. If this is the conversations that are being had amongst [your people], I want to hear this.”
ScHoolboy Q quoted a clip of the interview on X and wrote, “braH…… im cool on this app tHis sHit outta control dog.” In another tweet, he wrote “NO SUCH THING AS BLACK ON BLACK ANYTHING WTF.” The TDE rapper also posted and deleted a tweet where he wrote, “YOU KNOW WAT I DONT LIKE ABOUT U NI**ERS? I HATE WHEN U NI**ERS BE ACTING LIKE NI**ERS [laughing emoji].. basically.”
Notably, in this same interview, he talked about his friendship with Drake and how he banned Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” from playing at his annual All White party to be considerate of his friend who was in attendance. So, while he is consistent in his messaging of reducing hate within Black culture, he is still viewed as the wrong person to speak on the topic.
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