OG First Lady Nancy Reagan died at the age of 94 this week, and now there’s a circulating online petition asking the rapper Fetty Wap to perform his hit song “Trap Queen” at Nancy’s funeral.
Because according to the petition, started by one “David D.” (there’s no other information available about the user) beyond Nancy’s role as First Lady, “Nancy Reagan holds the important legacy as being the most famous Trap Queen in American history.”
David D. writes:
“While her husband, Ronald Reagan, was linking up with Papi to flood the streets with narcotics, Nancy was on TV telling kids to ‘Say No To Drugs.’ Her infamous ‘anti-drug’ phrase encouraged strict laws on drug possession that led to a school-to-prison pipeline we’re still dealing with now. Blacks and Latinos went to jail in droves for possessing drugs her husband gave them. It was an incredible sleight of hand that would make any wannabe Trap Queen hide in shame for her inability to be as diabolical as Nancy. “
If this petition speaks to you as much as it does to me, sign it here.
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