Being heavily criticized is something that often comes with reaching high levels of fame, but Doja Cat has had enough of the twisted image that is being portrayed of her. The rapper-singer recently addressed some remarks made about her reputation, revealing that she’s “angry” about the sentiments being expressed.
In a recent episode of Apple Music’s Rap Life Review podcast, the hosts claimed Doja wants to do the “polar opposite of what this Hip-Hop thing should be” and that she “plays with white people too much.” The Planet Her creator responded to the clip and defended herself.
“I don’t want to stand up for myself in regards to all of these lies being told because to be honest I don’t think it will make a difference,” Doja Cat wrote in a since-deleted post on X. “Maybe I’m wrong and maybe it would. Ive just learned to let ignorance be and let people learn and use their own discernment. If you watch the ‘news’ and believe it all what kind of person does that make you? I’m enough. My music is enough. My word is enough. Everything following that is everyone else’s problem but mine.”
When one fan asked if she was mad about the criticism, she replied, “I’m more angry than you know and incredibly disappointed.”
The “Woman” rapper has had a handful of controversies in the past. Last year, she received backlash for wearing a shirt with alt-right comedian Sam Hyde on it. In 2020, she was accused of participating in online chatrooms tied to white supremacist groups.
She responded to the incidents in a later interview, saying, “You can’t know everything and me wearing a t-shirt of somebody who I thought was funny is ‘an attack on people’? It’s not an attack. It didn’t affect the world in a way where we now have to look behind our backs. We don’t.”
In the same aforementioned Rap Life Review episode, host Ebro Darden mentioned he asked Doja directly about her controversies and she owned up to them, admitting she “made mistakes.”
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The 29-year-old talent continued to express how she feels on social media, with a more recent post reading, “I’m honestly very inauthentic because everything I do is based off of what Ive learned off of TV. So the whole authenticity argument can be settled at that. I love making noises with my mouth and if it has to become political then I’m out. I spit hot fiya!”
She then suggested she doesn’t mind being seen as “inauthentic,” as it has helped her create the art that her fans know and love. “But maybe its not so bad being ‘inauthentic’ maybe its one of the best things I could be. if it’s helped me make all this music that makes me feel at peace,” she concluded.
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