Lizzo has never been one to shy away from sharing her opinion, so it comes as no surprise that she’d hold nothing back when discussing the issue of cultural appropriation.
On Wednesday (March 6), the “About Damn Time” singer took to TikTok to respond to a video where a white woman jokes about the overuse of the term “type shit” by potential romantic partners.
The clip prompted Lizzo to issue a P.S.A. on white people “talking like Black people” and call for more gatekeeping around the use of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English).
“Why don’t we bring back gatekeeping?” she said. “So that AAVE is reserved for the people who created it and grew up speaking it.
“So that all these people that are now talking like Black people because they read words on the internet and don’t know the origin and don’t participate in the culture don’t overuse it and then things like this happen.”
“Because ‘ganglish’ is definitely the new ‘thug,'” she continued. “When police would call someone a ‘thug’ but it’s really a Black person, which is the new hard ‘r’ N-word.
“I know so many people who have said ‘type shit, type shit’ their entire lives. I’ve heard them talk like that for years before it became trendy on the internet to say that. But maybe if these internet people get sick of it, we can just continue to use our dialect in peace, Type shit.”
Watch the video below.
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The clip comes on the heels of Lizzo addressing her inclusion (or lack thereof) in Jennifer Lopez’s new movie This Is Me…Now: A Love Story after a documentary revealed J.Lo’s failed efforts to recruit a number of big-name artists.
Last week saw the release of The Greatest Love Story Never Told, a companion documentary that chronicles the making of the singer’s aforementioned music film, which itself is based on J.Lo’s new album of the same name.
In one of the most attention-grabbing scenes, J.Lo and her team discuss the celebrities they’ve asked to appear in the film. The list of no’s due to unavailability mentioned in the scene includes Lizzo, along with Snoop Dogg, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and many others.
After the film’s release, Lizzo responded via TikTok, saying she had been unaware of the project.
“Nobody asked me,” she clarified. “J.Lo, I love you.”
The celebrities who did end up in This Is Me…Now: A Love Story include Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Fat Joe, Jennifer Lewis, Jane Fonda, and Lopez’s husband Ben Affleck.
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I can’t stand this fat fuck but she is right. Austrailians rapping like theyre from Memphis. I don’t like it.
Idrc tbh. I don’t like anyone who speak ignorantly. And many blacks in USA that are smart just have southern accents because of their heritage. Dialect isn’t a skin color lmao.
Dialect these nuts in your mouth
Lol thanks for shitting on this DUNCE Jay. Ol smart dumb n1gga.
I thought it was racist to refer to any dialect as “talking black” ? Now that yall got equality, you want to bring racism back ? Fucking dems
Might have a point but she’s not the one to make it. She’s the one enabling clowns to think they can speak on black folks business with her social media nonsense. she’s gone out of her way to play the black mammy role for her majority gay white male audience. so calling this chick out is on brand.
She’s trying to get the sexual allegations off her timeline 😆 classic playbook.. ‘hey stop lookin at me for this look at this white person doing this’
Bring back obesity being unhealthy
Please kill the fake outrage, this is the least of your problems. Carry on!!!
Lizzo doesn’t see colors, she see Twinkies
Maybe we should call out fat chicks that pretend it’s healthy..
Her opinion is the only thing she shares lol
I agree. Let’s bring back gate keeping. Let’s go back to where I, a white man in North America, can turn on my TV and watch a white as fuck show without a coloured gay non-binary tranny person shoehorned into the storyline. Make America white again!