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Fans of LL Cool J are allowed to take all the selfies they want during his concerts.
The 55-year-old rapper reprimanded Miranda Lambert this week after a video from one of her concerts in Las Vegas went viral when she stopped in the middle of her song “Tin Man” to call out a group of women for taking pictures.
“I’ll stop here for a second,” the 39-year-old country star told the public a week ago. “These girls worry about their selfie and don’t listen to the song. It makes me a little angry.”
When asked if he would do the same thing on one of his shows, LL Cool J laughed hysterically, before telling Audacy’s “Mercedes in the Morning” “Uh, no.” He continued to burst out laughing and added, “Miranda, get over it, baby!”
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LL Cool J jokingly told Miranda Lambert, “Get over it, baby!” about fans taking pictures at concerts. (Getty)
“It’s your job as an artist to make art,” he said. “The way fans interact with or interact with or appreciate that art is up to them!”
He continued, “If you want to come on my show and sit there and eat a bowl of potato salad with a baseball hat up to your nose, that’s what you choose to do. You got to let the fans do what they want to do. What about all those thousands of people who don’t? What, you got rules? No yellow shirts!”
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The “I’m Bad” rapper said he had “nothing bad” to say about Lambert, adding: “I wish her well and she’s entitled to her feelings, but for me I’m letting the fans be the fans, do what they want to do.”
He said his fans should feel free to “come to the show and enjoy. It’s going to be three and a half hours of non-stop hip-hop. If you want to take selfies, if you want to bring the old camera, the old Polaroids from the early 1800s, that’s up to you.”
LL Cool J said his fans should feel free to do whatever they want at his concerts, including taking selfies, polaroids or eating potato salad. (Scott Gries/NBC via Getty Images)
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Lambert’s outburst caused some fans to cheer her on while others left the show.
In a fan-recorded video, someone could be heard telling those around her, “Let’s go. Come on. Don’t do that to your fans.”
Some fans applauded Mirnada Lambert’s brutal move, while others left the show. (John Shearer/Getty Images for Miranda Lambert)
One of the women reprimanded by Lambert told NBC News she was “shocked” by the interaction.
“It was 30 seconds at the most,” said Adela Calin, 43. “We quickly took the picture and sat back down.”
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She added: “It felt like I was back in school with the teacher berating me for doing something wrong and telling me to get back in my place… I feel like she was determined to make us look young, immature and vain. But we were just grown women in our 30s to 60s trying to get a shot.”
