{"id":917581,"date":"2022-01-19T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/macg-dragged-for-asking-american-singer-ari-lennox-inappropriate-question\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T09:23:08","slug":"macg-dragged-for-asking-american-singer-ari-lennox-inappropriate-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/macg-dragged-for-asking-american-singer-ari-lennox-inappropriate-question\/","title":{"rendered":"MacG dragged for asking American singer Ari Lennox inappropriate question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1f018c31-5b23-51f6-9790-be9712de00f8&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x162&#038;resize=721x406.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>The year has just about started and controversial podcaster Macgyver \u2018MacG\u2019 Mukwevho is already trending for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest episode of his podcast, \u201cPodcast and Chill\u201d, MacG had a virtual interview with Ari Lennox where they spoke about her personal life and music career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, in the first two minutes of the interview, things got very awkward when MacG asked the star a very personal question.<\/p>\n<p>MacG asked Ari what inspired one of her earlier singles, \u201cPop\u201d. In the single, Ari speaks about having her vagina \u201cpopped\u201d, which is a reference to sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a silly song but it was so on time, like if I pop it for you, are you going to play with me or are we going to get married,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MacG then responded saying: \u201cAnd where are we at right now, is someone f*cking you good right now?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A visibly shocked Ari leaned into the camera and shouted, \u201cOh my God\u2026whoa there!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The American singer then goes on to tell MacG that his question was wild.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a wild question, why ask it that way, whoa,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to justify why he asked the question the way he did, the podcaster said it\u2019s because that was how she said it in the song.<\/p>\n<p>While Ari agrees that she sings about it in the song, she admits that MacG caught her off-guard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI did say that, but no, I am chilling, I am not messing with anyone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>See below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframeWrapper\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<p>A clip of the interview made it to Twitter where many South Africans found his question in poor taste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>See below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And then he laughs when it&#8217;s clear that she didn&#8217;t like that question. Sies this guy man. But you guys enabled him, you encouraged it!! https:\/\/t.co\/xfMVnvaSnH<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anathi Raba (@AnathiRaba) January 18, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He only knows how to chop shit with his fellow soap scum that, faced with an established global superstar, he can only shock her and make her uncomfortable because he can\u2019t do the one job his bigoted little podcast requites of him \u2014 interview \ud83d\udc80 https:\/\/t.co\/a5Rmmc8pcM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udc36\u210e\ud835\udc4e\ud835\udc5b\ud835\udc56 \ud835\udc3e\ud835\udc66\ud835\udc5b\ud835\udc52\ud835\udc60 (@Philile_Zandi) January 19, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Totally inappropriate and disrespectful  &#8230;he never learns<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 . (@RobPhatt) January 18, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mac G is so embarrassing. Yuck.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cleo Sol stan account (@ItsMbasa) January 19, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ignore the SA women, just focus on that lady&#8217;s reaction and you will know that was just an awful question. There&#8217;s really a way of asking question in a more respectable manner even if the person sings about such https:\/\/t.co\/vbqHdlJPc6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nthabeleng Koneshe (@nthabeyk) January 19, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This says a lot about his character. \ud83d\ude29\ud83d\ude2a<\/p>\n<p>How do you treat a lady like this?? \ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Tupana\u00ae\ufe0f\ud83d\udcfa (@BrianTupana) January 18, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why would he ask her that unprovoked?? \ud83d\ude14\ud83d\ude14\ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Siyanda Gola (@siyandagola) January 18, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year has just about started and controversial podcaster Macgyver \u2018MacG\u2019 Mukwevho is already trending for all the wrong reasons. In the latest episode of his podcast, \u201cPodcast and Chill\u201d, MacG had a virtual interview with Ari Lennox where they spoke about her personal life and music career. However, in the first two minutes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}