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Rapper and famed Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA, real name Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, made some headlines with his interview with Bloomberg. When asked about Black Lives Matter movement, RZA replied "Of course Black lives matter,” RZA says. “All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don’t think it’s necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it." He then when on to say... "When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also gotta have them take a look and us take a look in the mirror at the image we portray," RZA says. "If I'm a cop and every time I see a young Black youth whether I watch him on TV, movies or just see them hanging out and they not looking properly dressed, properly refined, carrying themselves, conducting themselves at proper hours of the day, things that a man does. You're gonna have a certain fear or stereotype of them. I tell my sons...I say, 'If you're going somewhere, you don't have to wear a hoodie.' We live in New York, so hoodies and that is all good, but sometimes button up your shirt, clean up. Look like a young man. You're not a little kid. I think that's another big issue we've got to pay attention to is the image that we portray that could invoke a fear into a White officer or to any officer."