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.”

“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.”

Santana said people are wilfully misinterpreting the lyric in a bid to paint him as a supporter of terrorism.

“I never said I worshipped him, I said I worshipped his courage,” he said. “It had nothing to do with 9/11 or me supporting them because I know people in the towers too. If you really listen to the song it was talking about that and the whole situation

“No matter what anybody says, that was courage right there. If anybody wants to say I worship them, well I know how I feel – I don’t worship them. I don’t appreciate anything they ever did. I’m not with them, not 1%, not 2% not 10% but I’ve looked in the dictionary and I’ve defined the word courage.”

Santana added that as the first anniversary of the terrorist strikes approaches, people should not be focusing on his lyric, but asking why the attacks happened at all.

“Why did that happen? Why did that happen on September 11, that is my question,” he said. “If that had have never happened, I would have never been able to sing that. It’s because United States have been going over there trespassing, stealing their stuff… now they make it seem like they came over here and bombed us for nothing.

Cause he's a black republican

I feel what he saying on some parts of his explanation but he really said if New Yorkers had more courage maybe something like that wouldnt happen and it was only like a year after 9/11

that album was fire

It was a hot bar and people don’t actually give a f*** about 9/11 bush did that s*** anyway chea!!!

Always liked how they always found someway to mention 9/11

young muhammad atta, no plane lessons

patriotic

cocaine lessons to supply the towers!

Because ppl weren’t as soft/easily offended 20 years ago

ITS THE HOME OF 9/11 THE PLACE OF THE LOST TOWERS

WE STILL BANGIN WE NEVER LOST POWER TELL EM

WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITYYYY

classic

this thread is getting me emotional. america, i love you !

Yeah I was still a baby then no so Im not really conscious of how society changed since

Its interesting to me that he probably couldnt say that now even tho 9/11 is more in the past compared to when he actually said it

Breh f*** a lyric, these niggas were callin themselves "Dipset Taliban"

they saying this man is anti American?

Dude should have been top three of all time. He was suppose to be up there with Wayne.
But his whack work ethic f***ed it up.

all we needed was the lyrics, not a whole AP English Lit essay

i've never seen nothing more american in my life. god bless that man!

You restoring the feeling

“I never said I worshipped him, I said I worshipped his courage,”

Bruh wtf kinda excuse is this

Ayo, my Dipset Taliban
We on these streets like the wars on them streets of Afghanistan
Better yet of Pakistan
To America, Harlem's Al Qaeda
Any problems I spray ya, not to startle the mayor