Remember when a rapper trashed a Rolls Royce to promote his album?
Published on Feb 21, 2022 at 11:00 AM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on May 26, 2022 at 3:02 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Alessandro Renesis
This is painful to watch. Painful and frustrating.
As a car person, it physically hurt me to see a car, any car, being deliberately destroyed for fun.
But it’s worse when it’s a $330,000 Rolls-Royce.
In October 2021, Grammy-award winning rapper Young Thug (Jeffery Lamar Williams) destroyed his brand-new Rolls-Royce Wraith with a baseball bat and spray paint to promote his album ‘Punk’. He was helped by producer and DJ Metro Boomin, and rapper Gunna.
They even made sure fans were on scene to watch the grim show and immortalise it with cameras.
As a publicity stunt, it obviously worked. Especially if you believe the notion that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. And yeah, it was their money and their car so they can do what they want with it.
But the video is truly uncomfortable to watch, and I’m curious to find out what Rolls-Royce thought of this.
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After beginning his automotive writing career at DriveTribe, Alessandro has been with Supercar Blondie since the launch of the website in 2022. In fact, he penned the very first article published on supercarblondie.com. He’s covered subjects from cars to aircraft, watches, and luxury yachts - and even crypto. He can largely be found heading up the site’s new-supercar and SBX coverage and being the first to bring our readers the news that they’re hungry for.
