CAM'RON associate JUELZ SANTANA has vehemently defended a lyric on the forthcoming album by the pair's DIPLOMATS crew that pays tribute to September 11 highjacker OMAR ATTA.
The lyric, on a track called 'I Love You' from the Diplomats as yet untitled album, runs:
"I worship the prophet/
The great Mohammed Omar Atta/
For his courage behind the wheel of the plane/
Reminds me when I was dealin' the 'caine."
Santana said he does not regret the line and insists he simply admires the
courage of Atta.
"I feel my Diplomats are my team and I'm going to do whatever it takes for them, for my people, the same way as he did for his people. Not that I
support him or what he did, but in order for him to do that, it had to take courage and love for what he believed in. A lot of New York people
don't have that. Maybe if they did, something like that wouldn't happen."
Dam what a dumass
The lyric, on a track called 'I Love You' from the Diplomats as yet untitled album, runs:
"I worship the prophet/
The great Mohammed Omar Atta/
For his courage behind the wheel of the plane/
Reminds me when I was dealin' the 'caine."
Santana said he does not regret the line and insists he simply admires the
courage of Atta.
"I feel my Diplomats are my team and I'm going to do whatever it takes for them, for my people, the same way as he did for his people. Not that I
support him or what he did, but in order for him to do that, it had to take courage and love for what he believed in. A lot of New York people
don't have that. Maybe if they did, something like that wouldn't happen."
Dam what a dumass