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Rapper youth American Airlines grounded flights on Wednesday and Thursday after the airline attempted to eject him and his wife from their first-class seats.
Terius Gray, better known as “Juvenile,” posted two videos of the incident on Instagram. In the first video, he is seen speaking to American Airlines flight attendants and being told he needs to move to the economy seating section… which is INSANE since his and his wife’s boarding passes both listed first class seats.
Instead of complying with the demands of the American Airlines flight attendants who tried to stuff him in the back, he and his wife left the plane and he continued to voice his disagreements to them the entire time. There is some strong language used in the two videos, so be warned:
In this video, the “Back That A– Up” rapper can be heard saying that he will not allow American Airlines to “don’t respect me so.”
Juvenile continues: “I’m a celebrity. I’m telling you, there will be consequences. There will be consequences because I’m getting off the plane. I’m getting off the plane. I’m not going to let you disrespect me like that. I’m not going to let you single me out of all the people on the plane and disrespect me. So I’m getting off the plane.”
In the second video, Juvenile makes some pretty obscene comments about American Airlines and also claims, “I’ve never flown economy class,” which I’m extremely jealous of:
I would like to hear American Airlines’ perspective on this. Years ago, they ruined almost my entire honeymoon. My wife and I arrived at Miami airport less than two hours before departure and the American Airlines employees told us straight up, “You’re late” because the security checkpoint was overloaded and we couldn’t even try to check in…
With over 2 hours of buffer time before our flight, which is what they recommended at the time. So we had to spend a small fortune to (1) stay in Miami that night, (2) rebook our flight even though it was entirely their fault, and (3) lose a small fortune on the night we paid for at the resort we were traveling to and the volcano/spa excursion we had booked for that day.
We got there on time and American Airlines just said “nope, you’re late” because their inability to run a business smoothly ripped us off…on the first day of our honeymoon. I will never fly AA again after this and I hope Juvenile never sets foot on an American Airlines plane again in his life after this incident.
