Waka Flocka Flame has had enough of the Internet. The Atlanta rapper says that the video of a woman accosting him in public that recently went viral was in fact staged, and was intended as a comment on how misinformation is spread online. (The clip in question, uploaded to YouTube as "Woman confronts Waka Flocka Flame," has been referred to as a "twerking video," though that word is interpreted rather loosely given the footage.)

TMZ recently caught up with the rapper as he was waiting for his baggage at LAX. "Actually, we set that up," he told the interviewer. "We staged that, just to see how many people would go with it." When the cameraman is taken aback, he doubles down: "I swear to god, ask--I think her name is Katie, if I'm not mistaken. We set it up, first thing we said, like, 'Look at her being hoe,' and hella racist shit. It goes to show how people don't look into nothing."

Flocka went on to say that the video's popularity--at press time, it had over 1.3 million views--came as a surprise. "We didn't think it would go viral," he says. "We thought, 'Let's just do this to fuck around.' I'm a comical person, I like having fun." When the interviewer asked him if he would act differently should he be confronted with the situation in real life, he said, "Yeah I would just start throwing $1s."

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