The mother of Tamir Rice, who was allegedly killed by Cleveland police, recently took to social media to voice her frustration over a Sunday performance at the Grammys.
Samaria Rice responded to BLM activist Tamika Mallory’s appearance in Lil Baby’s Grammy performance “The Bigger Picture” with a fiery Facebook post Sunday. The Grammy performance was a recreation of the June 2020 killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black Atlanta man, according to Billboard.
“I have tried to stay off this shit [Facebook] … Y’all have f*ck up our fight,” Rice wrote in a post.
“I’m tired of you black lives matter (Tamika Mallory and crew) bitches,” she wrote in another post.
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Rice told Cleveland.com she has no problem with Lil Baby or his message, but she does have an issue with activist Tamika Mallory, who she described as a “clout chaser.”
“Who hired them to represent these families? … She [Mallory] doesn’t speak for us. If you were going to do anything you should have had the mothers on stage so they could speak for themselves,” Rice told the outlet. (RELATED: Black Lives Matter Page Owner Allegedly Used $450,000 In Donations For Personal Use, FBI Says)
Lil Baby released a statement regarding his performance before Rice took to social media.
“My performance is important to me and I had to make sure it was right … Nominations aside, actually performing ‘The Bigger Picture’ means the most to me … this performance had to reflect the real. No sugar-coating. My family, my fans and my city know who I do this for,” the statement read.