The Bachelorette star Hannah Brown’s love for DaBaby’s “Rockstar” recently found her in some murky waters.
On Saturday (May 15), the reality star was on Instagram Live while trying to recall the TikTok dance to DaBaby’s aforementioned track. In the process, she rapped some of the lyrics word-for-word – which included the n-word.
As viewers began calling her out in her Live comments, she denied she said the word and consulted with a friend next to her to back her up.
“I’ve never called anybody that,” Brown said to her friend, to which her friend responded, “We don’t say that word. My dad would kill us.”
She then considered she may have said it without thinking, however, and offered up an apology of sorts.
“Look, people are going to want to think whatever they want to think of me, get mad at me, whatever,” she said. “And even if I did accidentally say it, I’m very sorry, I was singing a song and not even thinking.”
Brown later released an official apology on her Instagram Story.
“I owe you all a major apology,” she wrote. “There is no excuse and I will not justify what I said. I have read your messages and seen the hurt I have caused. I own it all. I am terribly sorry and know that whether in public or private, this language is unacceptable. I promise to do better.”
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In a statement to MSN on Tuesday (May 19), a source close to the reality star said she learned her lesson from the matter.
“Hannah is really embarrassed and ashamed,” the source reportedly said. “She did not intentionally say the N-word, but she understands that she was completely in the wrong and also understands why people are upset with her,” the insider explains. She sees this as a major lesson and is truly sorry.”
“Rockstar” appears on DaBaby’s third studio album Blame It On Baby, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April.
Fuck it, it’s fine to say it in song. You can’t put that word in your songs that become mad popular and get angry at people singing along when they get popular.
Black people getting mad at this shit are just virtue signaling.
Chris Rock settled this decades ago. If it’s in song then white people can say it.
Forreal if u want the word to stop we first have to stop using it in the raps til then u can’t get mad because they buying the records and selling out the shows
If it’s in the song, it’s fair game. End of debate.
Wasn’t going to say anything since the first four in here hit the nail on the head but…how is this news?
This is just…laughable. You give too much power to a word, its getting ridiculous.
It’s just disingenuous to think people won’t use the words they hear in everyday life, especially rap fans who only hear it as a term of endearment. I’ve literally never heard it used as a racial slur outside of movies.
Kendrick would cry if she didn’t apoligize. He is soft skinned.
Remember that time kendrick had that poor white girl on stage and told her that if she couldn’t rap the entire song word for word everyone would turn on her and then instantly turned on her with the crowd?
I’ve literally never felt the same about him after that. It was one of the most ignorant things I have ever seen.
Turned on her as soon as she said the N word*
There’s bigger issues in the black community than some white reality contestant repeating what she hears in a song she likes. They try to blame their problems on other races and feel like they’re getting something constructive done. Lol No, Hannah from The Bachelorette didn’t do any damage to your people. Grow a pair.
Wish everyone would stop humoring these miserable losers on the internet. Called out on instagram? Twitter clapped back? Get the fuck outta here with this shit. Stop giving power to these cry baby fucks.
Im white im sing lyrics word 4 word idc how ppl feel no more fuck tall pussies
Apologize for what? It is a song!!! You are singing a song that a black artist put together. The world is so twisted!!! I see nothing wrong with a white girl rapping or singing what artists have put out. It is that simple people.
Rappers need to stop writing songs with nigga. We’re giving white people the license to use the word because they hear it on songs. I hate sitting a traffic light and a white person is blasting nigga from a rap album. Can we really be mad at that white girl that said nigga? It’s in the song. Fuck it! I don’t like it. This nigga syndrome needs to stop. Rappers that use a lot niggaz can’t rhyme anyway. Rappers that use 3 niggaz or more in a short song need to retire. Imo, I think sales would go up because teeny boppers get the money from their parents. Most teeny boppers wouldn’t play songs with nigga around the parents. Therefore limiting the money that comes to you. Run dmc can be played around the family, imo. Someone like Soulja boy can’t.
People saying that if it is in a song then it should be ok for a white person to say it I can get where they coming from. But for the life of me, I don’t understand why would a white person even wanna say that word in the first place and on a public platform knowing what it invokes when said by white people throughout history and how people are going to react to that. Unless the reasons behind it were not that innocent especially when you censored yourself singing cuss words.
So the apology come only when they get caught.