Posted by Friday actor Faizon Love, who played “Big Worm” in the original 1995 film alongside Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, called out Dave East for allegedly being a “fake Crip” years ago. Still, he can’t escape the topic whenever he does press.
During a recent interview with the Boss Talk 101 podcast, Love was asked why he continues to accuse the Harlem rapper of not being a legit member of the infamous street gang and how the Los Angeles chapter looks at Crips from other regions.
“Dave East, I don’t know,” he said. “He just a kid. I call myself saving his life. I’m like, bruh. How are you a Crip? With the B-Dawgs, it’s a whole different thing. This ain’t the Boy Scouts. You didn’t grow up on my street. You have to grow up on your street. Ice Cube told you, ‘Die for a street they ain’t never heard of.’ So, it’s like, that’s the only thing — I was just trying to get some clarity like, how is he a Crip?”
Faizon Love’s comments come as somewhat of a surprise considering Dave East just addressed the subject during an episode of Smoke Champs — and rather diplomatically.
“I ain’t gonna front,” he explained. “I asked the bro, like I don’t know if I hit one of his joints. I don’t what I did. I don’t think he even got no bitches for me to hit. But my whole thing is like I never met you. This is my whole thing — like respect, bro. I ain’t got no problems with Big Worm. I’m not even gonna say his real name. Like you Big Worm at the end of the day. That’s all n-ggas know you by. I never met you. I never spoke to you. Never seen you.”
He added, “I only seen you on Friday as a kid, and n-ggas fucked with you. I was a fan, like I liked your role in Friday. I was a fan of that. N-gga woke up one day and said, ‘Dave East ain’t no real Crip.’ Who told you that? You went and sat around and gave you that vibe?”
As the Smoke Champs hosts continued to press Dave East for more information, he reiterated he’d never met him in real life and had no idea why he was targeted.
“Never spoke to him in my life,” he added. “But that happened a few times with a few people. N-ggas wake up with me on they mind. But I’m like, ‘Damn, Big Worm? I fucked with you, bro.’ I watched ‘Friday’ all the time. C’mon, man. Shout out to him though. I’m a firm believer in good energy, positive vibes.
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“I’ll see him when I see him and however that go, that go. It’s a small world. But I’m not going to badmouth that man on no podcast, no camera, no nothing. I don’t know why he had my name in his mouth. Shout out to him.”
Despite East’s diplomatic approach, Love appears to have no issues with fanning the flames. Watch the clip above.