A$AP Rocky claims "All Lives Matter", defends Bill Cosby

The rapper took to NYC's radio show The Breakfast Club to try and clear the air following his notorious Time Out interview resurfacing. “I don’t wanna talk about no fucking Ferguson and shit because I don’t live over there," he said last year, drawing criticism for his apparent disregard for the unrest following the shooting of Michael Brown. "I live in fucking SoHo and Beverly Hills. I can’t relate.”

Rocky told The Breakfast Club that he'd been misquoted and was in mourning following the death of friend A$AP Yams. In a misguided attempt to clarify his words, he said: "I just get upset, and what I was really trying to say there was, like, yo, I just, I hate when the bandwagon stuff start. I mean, how come, you know, black lives only matter when a police take ’em, when a police officer takes it? And it should be like, black lives, it should matter when a black life take it. You know what I mean? It should always matter. All lives matter!"

Rocky also asked why he was supposed to be overtly political: "I don’t know if it’s Thug, Future, Drake, anybody, like, you don’t always hear their content being about, you know, the political shit going on or all that other shit. I feel like, why put me on a pedestal for that, especially when I’m not asking for that? You know what I’m saying? I wanna make music. I wanna inspire. I wanna promote peace, ’cause at a time like this, I don’t have all the answers. I’m not trying to run for Congress. I’m not trying to run for office. I don’t have all the answers, you know what I’m saying?"

But doubling down on controversy, Rocky compared his recent plight with Bill Cosby's situation: “It’s just like with Bill Cosby... he did so much positive things leading up to one thing, which he was convicted of being innocent for, by the way. People don’t even speak about that, You get what I’m saying? All you remember is the 56 women and all that kind of shit."

Host Charlamagne Tha God interjected: "That's a lot of women..."

Continuing, Rocky crumbled: “Look, I’m not his lawyer, but I do know he’s innocent. In the eyes of the law, they said he’s innocent. You get what I’m saying? So, nobody talks about that. You get what I’m saying? All we know is that he was accused, he allegedly raped however many woman he raped, which, you got, it’s so much issues in the world, you know I’m saying? After we get off the topic of police brutality on the urban kids and the youth and all that, then you gotta talk about poverty, and after poverty you gotta talk about – issues never stop.”

The 40 minute interview covers a lot - and Rocky speaks about a lot about different topics, but it's hard to see how he can claim being "misquoted" here. He rambles during the interview - perhaps he's come in woefully ill-prepared? - but when he's offered an out, he says: "I feel like I do know how to articulate."

Check out the interview below.