In wake of the Philando Castile verdict, legendary musician Stevie Wonder told youth at a North Minneapolis Conference on Peace on Saturday, June 17 that "you cannot say black lives matter and then kill yourselves."

Wonder, who has voiced his support for the Black Lives Matter movement, appeared to be taking a new tone on the national movement demanding police accountability during this recent appearance.  

“It is in your hands to stop all the killing and all the shooting wherever it might be, because you cannot say black lives matter and then kill yourselves,” Wonder says in the clip below. “Because you know, we’ve mattered long before it was said.”

The great singer's rhetoric sounds a lot like respectability politics. Just last year, Wonder told 65,000 concertgoers at London's British Summer Time Festival that he doesn't "give a f**k" if they don't agree with his support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

"Yes, all life does matter… But the reason that I say black lives matter is because we are the original people of this world," he said. "So, in essence, everybody in here, really, you got some black in you. You've all got some soul in you, so stop denying your culture. And for those of you who don't agree with me, I love you but I don't give a f**k. Cut the bulls**t and fix it! We were all made in God's image. When you hate someone, you're hating that image. If I'm blind and I can see it, you can see it too."

Now, he is talking about black-on-black crime to young people in the same state where police officer Jeronimo Yanez — who was live streamed killing Castile— was acquitted of all wrongdoing. 

Wonder's comments are surprising, to say the least. Here is the full clip below: