Lil Twist made waves this past week when he made a startling revelation on the Mina’s House podcast. As many people know, he is good friends with Justin Bieber and as it turns out, Twist was made to be the fall guy just in case Bieber got into any trouble. In the interview, Twist specifically recalls a time in which he was asked to take a weed charge for Bieber. Since JB was a child star, a drug charge could have proven to be very costly for him.

“If they would have put weed charges on Justin in his early career, it would have been bad on him,” Twist said. “So I got a call one day saying, ‘Twist, do you really love this kid?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ They said, ‘Cool. If you love him then you can take the heat for him because you can come off a little weed charge. You’re associated with Lil Wayne. You’re a rapper.’”

Following the backlash from his comments, Twist released a statement through his publicist describing why he chose to come out with his experience. As he explains, he wanted to show people what it’s like to be black in America and how biases can be thrust upon you.

Per Twist:

“We are at a very critical point in society as we rewrite a new narrative that encompasses the experience of being Black in America. However, rewriting a new narrative requires one to stand in and speak his or her truth with confidence. While promoting my TV show, the subject of certain events with Bieber were brought up, and in the spirit of being authentic, I felt it a disservice to my fans and the general public to not be completely transparent about my experience. I believe that if you truly support the Black Lives Matter movement, Black people, and Black culture, your actions have to reflect that.”

Twist’s story has proven to be quite shocking and it certainly speaks to some of the stereotypes some black artists have to deal with.

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Justin Bieber and Lil Twist were best friends during the darkest days of his career. These days, the pop star has saved face. He’s back in the public’s good graces after struggling for a minute, pissing in buckets and acting a complete fool in general. Much of his bad behavior was disregarded as people put the heat on Lil Twist.

Considering the fact that Twist had ties to Lil Wayne as a member of Young Money, Justin Bieber’s team allegedly asked the rapper to sacrifice his own success to protect his friend, which he agreed to. He actually ended up taking weed charges so that Bieber could be safe from the scrutiny.

In a new interview with Mina SayWhat, Lil Twist explains what went down.

“I still love Justin to this day. But his team had their knee metaphorically on my neck for years just so they could keep [Justin] clean. I took that heat,” claims Twist. 

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He says that he told Justin and his team that if they wanted to throw the heat on him, he could take it. 

“If they would have put weed charges on Justin in his early career, it would have been bad on him. So I got a call one day saying, ‘Twist, do you really love this kid?’ I said yes. They said, ‘Cool, if you love him then you can take the heat for him because you can come off a little weed charge. You’re associated with Lil Wayne. You’re a rapper.'”

Twist says that it got to a point where, in certain instances, he wasn’t even involved in whatever went down but he was still taking the blame for his brother.

He claims that his association with Justin Bieber definitely hindered his own success but he does not hold any animosity toward the artist. In fact, he claims that Bieber still messages him on the low but he does so secretly.

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We’re not sure if there is more Growing Up Hip Hop drama off-screen than on television. The WEtv series has found that cast members are dropping like flies ever since Romeo Miller and his father Master Pannounced their exit. Lil Twist, who has starred in two seasons of the Los Angeles edition of the series, recently called out his co-stars for complaining about how they’re being portrayed on television. Master P shared a behind-the-scenes video to social media that showed him arguing with production about their choice to drag out Romeo’s storyline with Angela Simmons. Percy Miller has returned to say that he’s not trying to beef with anyone about his choice to protect his energy and his brand.

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“‘Who are the haters in ya neighborhood?!?!’ They putting us against each other for bread,” he wrote in the caption to a video he posted to Instagram. “It wasn’t good a week ago but it was good 5 seasons ago, when the show was about building kings and queens of families in Hip-hop. I have no beef with nun of these younstas. Romeo and I quit the show 6 months ago so nothing you see now is in real time so that’s why this show is fake. We left a couple mill on the table, I have one question who did they give that to? That’s why education and ownership is so important.”

In the video clip, he mentions Lil Twist’s remarks. “My beef is not with Lil Twist,” he said. “A lot of these fake producers, they fake! That’s it. Because the real producer that started the show, she don’t even want her name on here. And I got that on video. I can show you that, too.” He encouraged others to take a look at the big picture. He also mentioned Charlamagne Tha God, and that may be because The Breakfast Club discussed the controversy on their show today (May 20). Check it all out below.

The news of his Growing Up Hip Hop co-stars calling it quits has Lil Twist feeling some type of way. Lil Wayne's protegé has been a featured cast member on the Los Angeles edition of the series, and after Sandra "Pepa" Denton's daughter Egypt Criss announced that she would no longer be apart of the show, Lil Twist took to his Twitter account to voice his frustration with his friends who complain about how they've been portrayed on the series.

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Twist can't wrap his head around why it took five seasons for cast members to complain about how they're coming across on television. "I ain’t even been on a full 2 seasons these producers don’t know me like they know y’all.. y’all been in business with these folk way longer than I have....," he tweeted. "Tryna make it seem to the masses that this sh*t is all scripted and written up to LOOK like the way it’s actually being shown.. LISTEN PEOPLE THIS SH*T IS 100 percent real." He added that the producers aren't at fault because they're only working with what the cast is giving them.

"So if it is fake.... why I don’t look like a weird ass crybaby that’s b*tchin over a joke? Or why I don’t like a n*gga that paint his face and wear press on nails?" Lil Twist continued. "Ohh that’s cause I’m only give these producers and the people that watch WHAT I WANT THEM TO SEE . can’t trick twist." The rapper told his castmates not to be angry when the public forms an opinion on how they've act when cameras were rolling. Read through his full set of tweets below.

We’re starting this year off with some major fire. If you ask me, this is how we should begin each annual campaign: with new albums from Eminem and Lil Wayne. As a surprise to his fans, Eminem released Music To Be Murdered By out of absolutely nowhere and, taking notice of the drop, Lil Wayne might just have been a little envious of the attention he was getting. Recognizing that the Detroit icon can spare to share some of the spotlight, he came through and announced that his highly-anticipated C5 follow-up, Funeral, would be released at the end of January. We’ve officially arrived at that mark and, albeit a little later than usual, Wayne delivered.

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Last night, fans were surprised to see Funeral hit streaming services at 3 AM EST, as opposed to the traditional drop zone three hours prior. Still, we stayed up and made sure to consume the hell out of it upon its inception. With features from Big Sean, Lil Baby, Jay Rock, The-Dream, and more, there are more than enough voices to keep us entertained throughout the entire 20+ song tracklist. This also marks the continuation of Weezy’s love affair with the late XXXTentacion, marking another posthumous collaboration between the two on “Get Outta My Head.”

Spanning over an hour, Lil Tunechi is giving us more than enough material to begin the year with some flames. Are you feeling the project so far?