21 Savage recently sat down for an interview with the New York Times, and he addressed having a British accent as a kid and getting picked on when he came to the U.S.
He explained, "I had a accent, ’cause my first day of school they was making fun of me so I beat somebody up, and they was calling me ‘taekwondo kid.' My mama whupped me, she made me stay in the house. So I know I had a accent, but I been here 20 years — I don’t know what happened to it."
While he was detained by ICE and it was revealed that he's a citizen of the U.K., memes started popping up online, which some people like Offset didn't find to be funny. However, 21 told the Times that he thought some of the memes were funny and added that he wasn't sweating it.
"Some of them was funny — I ain’t gonna lie. I was appreciative of that. I coulda been another person who just, ‘He locked up? Damn,’ and nobody said nothing. Some people, I see why they was mad. It ain’t about the meme, it’s about the bigger picture. But I done been through way worse things in my life than somebody putting me on a meme. I been shot — what is a meme? A meme is nothing. That’s something on the internet that I can do like this [turns over phone] and never see again. I look at bullet scars every day, so it’s like, a meme, bro?"
Source: New York Times
