21 Savage is taking a page out of Fat Joe‘s playbook and declaring a majority of his song content to be fiction amid the recent controversy over lyrics being used in court cases.
Talking to Rolling Stone in a new interview published on Monday (December 18), the “A Lot” rapper proclaimed that his music is “fiction as hell.”
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“I just think of it in my head,” he told the esteemed publication. “Some of it be based off of real life, but a lot of it be creative stories.”
His comments follow Fat Joe’s recent claims that he lied in “95 percent” of his raps – which he said in defense of Young Thug, whose lyrics about committing crimes are being used in his current RICO trial.
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“I’ve been rapping professionally for 30 years — I’ve lied in almost 95 percent of my songs,” Joe told Gayle King in a recent interview. “I’m being honest. I write like I feel that day. I’m just being creative. You couldn’t build a jail high enough for the lyrics I’ve said on songs which are all untrue.”
He went on: “What I am is a family man, the person who gives back to my community all the time, opens businesses in my community. So the music would never amount to the actual person, Joseph Cartagena.
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“What’s even more horrible is that the district attorneys, they know those lyrics ain’t real. They know that’s creativity. But if it helps their case, they’ll use it to put these guys in jail.
“And here, we’re having a fun show about it and discussion, but there really is six defendants in Atlanta who might spend the rest of their lives in jail for something that’s totally not true. This is very serious. This destroys families.”
As for 21 Savage, this isn’t the first time he’s admitted to embellishing in his songs. Last August, the Atlanta-based rapper tweeted a message about gun violence that read: “Atlanta We Have To Do Better Put The F****** Guns Down!”
Someone replied with a GIF of a man looking confused along with some of 21’s lyrics from his Billboard chart-topping Drake collaboration “Jimmy Cooks” in the caption.
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“Spin the block twice like there ain’t nowhere to park,” they wrote, to which 21 Savage replied: “A Song Is For Entertainment It’s Not An Instruction Manual On How To Live Life In Real Life I Give Away A Lot Of Money And Spread Financial Literacy To My Community Stop Trying To Make Me 1-Dimensional.”
