Rappers may not like snitching, but apparently they love pointing fingers – at anything and everything. Whether they’re pointing at each other in photos or just indirectly directing the air, they make it a point to point.
“The point” (as we are now coining it) is perhaps the easiest hand gesture to learn. There are no gang affiliations associated with it (as far as we know), and anyone can do it. Maybe it’s a precursor to the “Birdman hand rub?” Perhaps that’s why so many rappers do.
So to honor the pointers, we’ve compiled a gallery of rappers pointing. Sounds silly right? Well check out how many pics we’ve found, and you’ll see that we’re clearly on to something. But just remember rappers: when you point your finger you have three pointing back at you. Whatever that means.
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Kanye West is pointing while he performs, demanding that everyone in the room stops calling his leather skirt a skirt. It’s a kilt dammit. A kilt! Except for the fact that kilts are rarely made of leather and sold at Forever 21.
Omarion and Bow Wow share a collaborative point, though we know now that Boweezy is pointing at Keyonnah from MTV’s Catfish, like “Girl, how could you believe I’d be looking for chicks on Facebook? Smh.”
And here we have Drake doing the single barrel point, making the weirdest face that he’s made in his entire career. And that says a lot because outside of pointing, Drizzy is known for making weird ass faces.
“My Umi says shine your light on the world. So I’m pointing at the lights for the world to see.” That is how the song goes right? Maybe that’s the Yasiin Bey remix?
Rick Ross is pointing at something here, and it’s certainly not the camera. Maybe he’s pointing at the Reebok rep standing by the sidelines like, “See that guy? He tried to fire me from Reebok. That didn’t last for too long.”
Lil Wayne isn’t exactly looking like he’s pointing here. He looking like he’s phoning home. Get it? Because you have to be extraterrestrial to sign Paris Hilton and then record a song with her.
Old school Lupe Fiasco points, but new school Lupe Fiasco doesn’t. He just gets mad and shakes his hair around. That’s almost the same thing except for the fact that it’s totally different.
Ah yes, and once again it’s the Pastor of Pointing and he’s once again making that WEIRD FACE. What is it, Drake? As soon as your index finger rises your face contorts? What the hell?
Eminem is pointing to his fans like, “You might not know this yet, but my hair is bleached back to blonde. I’m not quite ready to show you yet, but here’s a blonde heads up. Make sure you re-stock your medicine cabinets with Hydrogen Peroxide.”
Oh whoops, 2 Chainz isn’t pointing here. Here’s finally holding up the right number of fingers to show that he’s rocking two chains. Usually, he’ll be holding up two fingers on each hand, which would make him 4 Chainz. That’s not his name though.
Wiz Khalifa is beckoning the audience, demanding everyone takes a guess as to how many blunts he smoked before getting on the stage. The winning number was 89.
Jay Z to Beyoncé: “I heard Kanye might want to sign that ball player right there to G.O.O.D. Music, so I think I’ll meet him after the game and sign him to Roc Nation.”
The most infamous point in the history of pointing in hip-hop. Cam’ron’s now signature point where he eloquently declared to Bill O’Reilly “YOU MAD!!!!”
Kendrick Lamar is pointing with two fingers, signifying the number of rappers currently in the game that are better than he is. Can you name those two?
Drake says, “Forget all of those previous pics of me pointing. It’s not really pointing unless I’m holding a bottle of Henny in front of my private jet with my out of work actor hairdo. THEN it’s pointing properly.”
