{"id":658199,"date":"2021-08-18T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658199"},"modified":"2021-08-18T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:07:03","slug":"lil-wayne-pledged-financial-support-to-police-officer-who-saved-his-life-pair-stay-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lil-wayne-pledged-financial-support-to-police-officer-who-saved-his-life-pair-stay-in-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Pledged Financial Support To Police Officer Who Saved His Life, Pair Stay In Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flil-wayne-pledged-financial-support-to-police-officer-who-saved-his-life-pair-stay-in-touch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1206754615.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former New Orleans police officer Robert Hoobler, a.k.a. \u201cUncle Bob,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/08\/17\/lil-wayne-offered-financially-take-care-of-ex-cop-who-saved-his-life\/\">told<\/a> TMZ on Tuesday that rapper Lil Wayne has offered to financially support him or help him with anything else he needs; all the former officer has to do is call.<\/p>\n<p>Hoobler was the officer who saved Wayne, real name Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 12. The rapper has come forward in recent years to talk about the suicide attempt and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoobler, an ex-police officer, said that he saw Wayne when he was in New Orleans for a radio show in 2019. When they ran into each other, he told Hoobler that he would provide him with financial support if he needed it \u2014 all he had to do is say when,\u201d Page Six <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/08\/17\/lil-wayne-offered-money-to-ex-cop-who-saved-his-life\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Page Six noted that Hoobler has not taken any money from Wayne despite the offer, \u201cbut there have been talks about him joining Weezy\u2019s team in some sort of administrative capacity,\u201d TMZ reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne rapped about Hoobler on a his 2015 song \u201cLondon Roads,\u201d where it was suggested \u201cUncle Bob\u201d had died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, Bob was still alive \u2026 and says he got in touch with Wayne to let him know all reports or rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated,\u201d TMZ said. \u201cUncle Bob says Wayne was actually ready to pay for his funeral. Thankfully, that wasn\u2019t necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Wayne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-lil-wayne-says-racism-over-praises-white-cop-amanda-prestigiacomo\">referenced<\/a> Hoobler picking him up off the ground and rushing him to the hospital after he shot himself in the chest:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>\u201cThat day that I shot myself, the police\u2026came through there; they knocked the doors down; I was on the floor; they hopped over me, looking for the drugs,\u201d said Wayne. \u201cIt was a white police that ran up and stopped, and said, \u2018What the f*** are ya\u2019ll doing? Do you not see this baby on the floor?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe picked me up, bought me to the hospital himself. He was white,\u201d said Wayne.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For years, it was assumed Wayne\u2019s gunshot wound was an accident, but the rapper has since revealed that it was a suicide attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the struggle he was feeling at the time of the attempt, Wayne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H_iKNketUXI&amp;t=540s\">revealed<\/a> this month that his family did not discuss feelings openly. He also emphasized that he did not have a father growing up, leading his mother to play the role of both parents, suggesting she was harder on him out of necessity.&nbsp;The 38-year-old credited God with keeping him alive that day.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, back in 2016, Wayne knocked then-NFL QB Colin Kaepernick\u2019s anti-police protest and said he\u2019s never experienced racism in America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-lil-wayne-says-racism-over-praises-white-cop-amanda-prestigiacomo\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"32\">\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s the man\u2019s decision,\u201d Wayne said of the protest. \u201cI\u2019m not into it enough to even give an opinion. So when he did it, someone had to tell me why he was doing it, that\u2019s how much I didn\u2019t know what was going on. And I kind of still don\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Host Skip Bayless asked, \u201cWhere are we in the United States of America, in race relations, in what you see from day-to-day in your life?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSkip, they wouldn\u2019t want you to ask me that,\u201d answered Wayne. \u201cI have never dealt with racism, and I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t have to. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because of my blessings\u2026 but it is my reality,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought it was over; I still believe it\u2019s over. But obviously it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo you have never experienced any offensive behavior from any other color..?\u201d asked a stunned Bayless.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo, sir,\u201d replied the rapper.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-lil-wayne-says-racism-over-praises-white-cop-amanda-prestigiacomo\">WATCH: Lil Wayne Says Racism Is \u2018Over,\u2019 Praises White Cop Who Saved&nbsp;Him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Orleans police officer Robert Hoobler, a.k.a. \u201cUncle Bob,\u201d told TMZ on Tuesday that rapper Lil Wayne has offered to financially support him or help him with anything else &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}