Rapper Tyga Planks On $400,000 Maybach [Photos]

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» by Danielle Canada July 8, 2011, 11:13am

Rapper Tyga is causing controversy after posting a photo of himself “planking” on top of his $400,000 car.

As previously reported, “planking” is the term for the “lying down game”, a fad where people lay face down and stiff as a board in odd places and take pictures.

The rapper posted a picture Thursday of him planking on top of his Maybach with the caption,

“#MaybachPlankin #KingShyte”

After his followers criticized him for taking part in the trend the rapper wrote,

“Honestly the meaning behind it is sad but we just Havin funnnn #Shame.”

As previously reported, Xzbibit shunned people for giving in to the growing trend arguing that its roots come from slavery.

“Planking is the dumbest s**t ever. Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, it's not funny. Educate yourselves.
“Don't get it twisted. I care less where your dumb a**es lay face down and take pictures of the s**t, I'm just telling you where it came from.”

According to Camilo Smith at TheGrio.com while there's no clear correlation between planking and slavery, the book Upon these Shores: Themes in the African-American Experience, 1600 to the Present mentions it saying,

“Some ships had tiny bunks, really nothing more than shelves, on which slaves could recline; in others, the slaves lay side by side on the planking, rolling with the ship, bodies virtually touching, for weeks on end.”

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