Grammy-winning rapper slams Black Lives Matter as a ‘scam’ during awkward exchange on YouTuber Quenlin Blackwell’s show

Lil Yachty, real name Miles Parks McCollum, was featured on last week’s episode of Feeding Starving Celebrities, a YouTube show where Blackwell interviews stars who claim to be starving and teaches them how to cook.

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‘You spent $100,000 on a trip to Disney World. How much have you spent on charitable causes?’ the YouTuber, 24, asked.

The rapper, seemingly taken about by the question, tried to dismiss it by pointing out how ‘this year technically just started’. But Blackwell pushed back, asking: ‘What about last year? What about the year before last year?’

‘Oh, well that year, that’s a good year, yeah,’ Lil Yachty, 27, replied. ‘It’s just blurry, I’ve been doing so much.’

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The YouTuber appeared shocked by his remark, telling her viewers to ‘clip that, send it to the f***ing news’. But Lil Yachty doubled down on his remark, saying: ‘BLM was literally a scam. They had bought mansions.’

WARNING: THE COMMENT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS ARTICLE, BUT ALL I COULD STOMACH WATCHING WAS A COUPLE MINUTES, SO I DIDN’T HEAR IT.

Lil Yachty went on to claim that Blackwell ‘probably wouldn’t know anything about it because you don’t care about Black people. You don’t follow Black news.’

‘I do care about Black people. Look at my chocolate,’ she interjected.

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Lil Yachty then pointed out that Blackwell had an ‘all white staff’, but she claimed they are ‘PoC’, an acronym referring to a person of color.

One of Blackwell’s staff is heard off camera saying, ‘and I’m gay’, to which Lil Yachty adds: ‘I too have a gay.’

The pair’s awkward conversation has gone viral on social media, with many criticizing how the exchange of ‘wild comments’.

But many people are applauding Lil Yachty for calling out BLM for allegedly taking ‘millions in donations’ and then spending the funds on ‘on luxury mansions instead of the communities they claimed to help‘.

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The organization became widely accused of being a scam after it emerged that its leaders had spent a whopping $6million that was donated to the activist group to buy a 6,500-square foot Southern California mansion.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc, faced accusations of financial mismanagement after purchasing the property off the back of funds raised in the wake of the racial justice protests of 2020.

BLM also allegedly wished to keep the house purchase a secret despite three of its former leaders having reportedly filming a series of videos dining and drinking Champagne outside the estate in Spring 2021.

Documents and internal communications, previously reported on by MailOnline, alleged the luxury property’s purchase was handled in ways that ‘blur boundaries’ between charitable use and those that would benefit some of the organization’s leaders.

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BLM Grassroots, a collective of organizers, claimed the foundation raised donations off the work of a city-based BLM chapter, then defrauded the public and shut activists out of decision-making.

The fraud claim against the foundation was, in part, based on the alleged misrepresentation of the $6million Los Angeles-area compound purchased with donated funds.

But the foundation’s lawyers argued that local BLM activists failed to prove they were entitled to the raised funds or that the foundation’s leaders had siphoned off millions of dollars for nefarious purposes.

A California judge in 2023 sided with the foundation’s lawyers and dismissed the suit.

The foundation said the property, which includes a home with six bedrooms and bathrooms, a swimming pool, a soundstage and office space, is used as a campus for a Black artists fellowship. BLM chapter organizers say the donated funds were never intended for use that way.

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Tyree Conyers-Page, known as Sir Maejor Page, was found guilty of spending $450,000 raised from 18,000 donors on tailored suits, nightclub bar tabs, an evening with a prostitute, and a mansion in Ohio.

In addition, the co-director of BLM Grassroots Melina Abdullah was accused of using the organization’s funds to pay for vacations in Jamaica and her own person expenses, the Free Press reports.

Abdullah has not been charged with a crime, but the California attorney general in October 2024 threatened to revoke her group’s tax-exempt status if did not turn over delinquent tax filings.

Abdullah denied the allegations, but reports at the time alleged that at least $8.7million in donations were ‘unaccounted for’.

It is unclear if she ever turned over the allegedly delinquent filings for BLM Grassroots.

In May 2023, it was also revealed that BLM’s national organization was at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5million into the red the year before – while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.

The financial disclosures, previously reported on by MailOnline, showed the perilous state of BLM’s Global Network Foundation – which officially emerged in November 2020 as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.

Yet despite the financial controversy and scrutiny, BLM GNF continued to hire relatives of the founder, Patrisse Cullors, and several board members

Her brother Paul Cullors set up two companies which were paid $1.6million providing ‘professional security services’ for Black Lives Matter in 2022.

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Patrisse defended hiring him, saying registered security firms which hired former police officers could not be trusted, given the movement’s opposition to police brutality.

Tax filings for 2021 revealed that BLM paid a company owned by Damon Turner, the father of Patrisse’s child, nearly $970,000 to help ‘produce live events’ and provide other ‘creative services‘.

Patrisse, who had been at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for nearly six years, stepped down in May 2021, amid anger at the group’s financial decisions and perceived lack of transparency.

MailOnline has approached BLM and Lil Yachty for comment.

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