The name Mulatto is now a thing of the past. On Tuesday (May 18), the Atlanta-bred rapper’s Spotify and Apple Music accounts were changed to Latto while an Instagram post teasing her new single also reflected the long-awaited update.
Latto started contemplating the move last year after she was criticized for using a word that has negative connotations for people who are of mixed race.
During a January interview with Hot Freestyle, Latto opened up about the controversy and insisted she never intended to offend anyone.
“You know, you might know your intentions, but these are strangers who don’t know you, never even met you in person,” she said at the time. “So you gotta hear each other out, and if you know those aren’t your intentions and that’s how it’s being perceived, it’s like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the name. So now I’m like, ‘OK, my intentions was to never glorify being mulatto.’”
Latto — who got her start on Jermaine Dupri’s rap competition show The Rap Game — also weighed in on the DaniLeigh “Yellow Bone” debate, saying, “I see both sides because me being an artist, I see how our intentions can get flipped. Because I genuinely believe her intentions was not to offend anyone or to like, up one skin color and put down another skin color. I feel like her intentions wasn’t that.”
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As noted in the caption, Latto’s first single under the new moniker is expected to arrive on Friday (May 21). Her August 2020 single with Gucci Mane, “Guwop,” was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Now she gon get sued by state Lotto, lmfao!
Between Mulatto and Latto, which is the better rap name? Personally, I prefer Mulatto. I don’t think rap music can survive with so much sensitive people masquerading as fans.
It’s a racial slur derogatory to black ppl. Mulatto means “half breed” and the black “half” is represented as being the “inferior half” it’s an extremely fcuked up word treating “each half” as “animals” also and not humans if you bother to look it up. Invented as part of racism invented when slavery and colonization by Euro nation’s, they created racism as a propaganda / ideology to make people be regarded as animals undeserving of humane treatment.
Learn – Europeans weren’t the biggest slave owners and were the first to abolish slavery.
Whose this ho go back to selling pussy bitch
Pandering to dumb sensitive ass people. If you sensitive go listen to RNB or some other whiny bullshit. Gone are the days when something had to be hate based or threatening to be considered “racist”. Now racist means you hurt my feelings. My parents told me “mulatto” meant you were mixed race which is pretty common these days. Its not a derogatory word unless these young people are trying to rewrite the definition to further their petty agenda. No real rapper would change their name to appease haters.
But if she can’t say or call herself “Mulatto” when she is mixed herself and technically is that word, then that would mean black people can’t call themselves the n-word either right? Because it’s derogatory right?
People are bored, their need to feel enraged online envokes a sense of belonging, importance. It signifies that they actually have a meaningful way to use the cell in their bodies. It is, however, just an illusion.
Actually the N word comes from the word “negus”. So we can say that word. But really white people can’t because of switching the connotation.
So nah people are just sensitive about anything
Long-awaited. Finally. This is how incompetent journalism makes it look like these nobodies are stars.
Mulatto, latto, Manny Machato…..I dont care what your name is, I’m not listening to that garbage either way, lol.
My motto… fuck lotto… I get the seven digits from your momma for a dolla tomorrow