Odell Beckham Jr. Responds to Backlash Over His Viral Video Dancing to Drake’s ‘Family Matters’: ‘I Know Who I Am’

Odell Beckham Jr. is addressing the societal media absorption to a video of him dancing successful his car to Drake‘s “Family Matters” that went viral past summer.

OBJ sat down with Complex precocious and was asked astir the backlash helium received online aft helium posted the video and his thoughts connected the back-and-forth betwixt his adjacent person Drake and Kendrick Lamar that had the rap crippled successful a chokehold for the past year-plus.

“I enactment bro done each of what he’s going through,” helium said earlier explaining that the video wasn’t needfully meant to beryllium posted. “And that video was adjacent a gag that I sent to my lad Chris. It wasn’t adjacent a video that I thought was going anyplace due to the fact that it’s like, ‘Yo, we’re trying to get immoderate worldly for TikTok.'”

He past continued by saying that erstwhile the video got out, helium started to announcement the assumptions radical were making online astir his sexuality.

“And that video gets out,” helium said. “Then I’m successful a tie-dye shirt, and they marque it each kinds of stuff. That’s erstwhile I autumn backmost to like…when I say, I truly cognize who I am? Like halt it. Whatever you whitethorn think, I cognize who I am. I would marque a gag astir each that different worldly but…I’ma conscionable permission it. Maybe different clip you’ll perceive the punctuation travel out. I cognize who I am. I cognize what I do.”

He was past asked astir his thoughts connected the rap conflict arsenic it unfolded and said he’s ever supported Drake.

“I listened, I thought it was great. I told him that to his face,” the Pro Bowl wide receiver told the outlet. “But astatine the extremity of the day, you’re talking astir Drake, he’s 1 of precise few. I don’t cognize needfully cognize however that played retired successful his life…that’s for him to larn and spell through.”

He added: “I had ever supported that side, I had ever shown up, I had ever done that. Before their small beef, had I listened to Kendrick’s stuff? Yeah, Kendrick’s a large artist. I emotion music. Music is what makes me, me. Since I was little.”

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