A white entrepreneur tried to mock Bow Wow for claiming to fly on a private jet and Black Twitter swiftly shut it down, leading the businessman to offer to a charity donation to clean up his mess.
Timothy Sykes is a stock trader best known for making $1.65 million at 21 by trading penny stocks. In between flaunting his wealth and lavish lifestyle on Instagram, he posed in front of a private jet to give Bow Wow, also known as Shad Moss, a lesson on how to brag.
“When you actually fly on a #privatejet, you can take a picture in front of it too, that way you don’t have to lie in interviews on how you did it on purpose to promote a TV show,” Sykes wrote on Instagram Saturday, May 13. “Unless you’re going to claim you stole my cash photo over a year ago for the show too!”
Bow Wow explained the photo op to “Ebro In The Morning” saying the method to his madness wasn’t understood.
“I’m about to have the biggest show on We TV period,” he said of the upcoming spin-off reality series of “Growing Up Hip-Hop.” “It’s a scientific method to my madness. You gotta just watch the show. Everything is for the show. You gotta just watch.”
Sykes dove into stereotypes to fuel his next blow toward Moss and insulted the “Growing Up Hip-Hop Atlanta” star’s intelligence.
“I don’t drink #hennessy or #sizzurp because I use my brain to make money as #knowledgeispower and the #stockmarket is what more people should respect, not failed musicians pretending to still be relevant…hit me up if you want to learn, I’ve taught people dumber than you before.”
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Online, many took issue with Sykes’ tweet.
Some thought it was racist.
https://twitter.com/JRonMelrose/status/863971058382127104
https://twitter.com/uunsis/status/864010661814308865
@PriSSyDaVina @GadoBeats Exactly…the white guy assumed bow wow sips codeine and drinks Hennessy because he is black and he is a rapper. He doesn’t know Shad
— ✭Sanco Buc Nasty!✭ (@King_Yunn) May 15, 2017
Others explained only Black people can poke fun at Bow Wow.
@JRonMelrose Bow Wow might be a corny nigga but unfortunately he’s our corny nigga. I don’t feel comfortable seeing white people come at him like this ?
— name cannot be blank (@buzzcutbarbie) May 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/xoxoxMinnie/status/863963785798832128
https://twitter.com/flylikerobin_/status/863965992162140160
One person was upset she had to defend Bow Wow.
https://twitter.com/doni_eLL/status/863963660321923073
Since the backlash, Sykes has challenged Bow Wow to match his $100,000 donation to a charity of the rapper’s choice.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUH-BruhNg3/?taken-by=timothysykes&hl=en
Bow Wow hasn’t responded, leading Sykes to display the donation in cash and explaining his original Instagram post was not race-related before plugging his business.
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