Trippie Redd has responded after Wack 100 questioned why some of Hip Hop’s new generation wear fingernail polish.
The veteran music manager posted a video on Instagram on Tuesday (February 14) in which he asked his followers for more clarity on the nail polish trend that has been adopted by artists like Trippie, NBA YoungBoy and Lil Uzi Vert.
Rather than criticizing it, however, Wack said he was simply hoping to gain an understanding of the fashion choice and invited “youngsters” to educate him in the comments section of his video.
“I’ve been getting this question about the youngsters wearing fingernail polish,” he began. “Me personally, I don’t wear fingernail polish — I’m from a different era; I’m a ’70s baby. I wear one earring, not two. That’s just our thing.
“So I say, ‘Shit, I gotta ask the youngsters.’ ‘Cause I know a lot of youngsters — Trippie Redd, NBA [YoungBoy], Lil Uzi [Vert] — I know these men, these men are not feminine, these men are not gay, they’re very masculine, they’re very stand-up individuals.”
He continued: “But they’re bringing them up like, ‘Yo, Wack, they wearing fingernail polish. Why?’ I say, ‘I don’t know, it’s a different era.’ When I grew up, n-ggas was sagging their pants. My parents and uncles was like, ‘What y’all doing with your ass out, n-gga? That’s gay.’ But it wasn’t gay, it was just some trendy shit we was doing.
“So now I’m coming to y’all. To to the youngsters out there, I’m hearing something about emo and all this other shit. Can y’all leave a comment down below on what the fingernail polish represent? Because of some of the youngsters I mentioned that I know, I don’t think it means it that [they’re feminine]. I just think it’s another type of movement.
“But I don’t know. They’re asking me this fucking question on Clubhouse and I ain’t got no answer for it, so I’m not gonna make no assumption about it. So y’all leave a comment below so I can go back and have this conversation.”
Trippie Redd answered Wack 100’s request via a comment on Akademiks’ Instagram page, informing the 43-year-old executive that he wears fingernail polish as a way to both express himself and practice self-care.
“It’s a way of expressing ur feelings,” he wrote, before adding: “Being true to your self and self care.”
Wack 100 isn’t the only Hip Hop personality who has addressed the increasing prevalence of fingernail polish among rap’s current crop of stars. Last year, Soulja Boy went on a rant about rappers wearing lipstick and painting their nails, saying it’s something he has never done and never will.
“Why don’t you go on your favorite rapper’s Live and ask him why he got fingernail polish on? Or ask him why he got lipstick on?” he said on Instagram Live while applying chapstick. “Nah, you wanna come to a real n-gga’s Live, a real gangster and play with a n-gga talking about some chapstick, man. Stop playing.
“But when your real favorite rapper put fingernail polish on his nails, y’all don’t see that shit huh? Y’all don’t see that though, huh? He a gangster, right? … Y’all like to play with the real n-ggas, go play with the… n-ggas that actually put shit on they’re nails.”
He concluded: “Why y’all wanna play with a real gangster? I ain’t never put no motherfucking lipstick on and I never will.”
NBA YoungBoy seemingly responded during an Instagram Live broadcast of his own days later, admitting people criticizing his painted nails “hurt[s] [his] feelings.”
“Everybody want to talk about my nails,” YoungBoy said as he showed them to the camera. “I done fucked them up, huh? You heard me, everybody want to play with the Slime, but it’s all good.
“You know I’m a big troll, as long as I ain’t no bitch troll. You can talk about my nails all you want, bitch. I know somebody who wish they could paint they nails right now…So mama, how do you think I should go about this because you hurt my feelings. I ain’t never do none of y’all anything.”
The Baton Rouge rapper previously explained that wearing makeup — which he began doing last year in his “Black Ball” music video — makes him feel “comfortable.”
“I like painting my face, putting makeup on,” he said on Clubhouse. “I like to look in the mirror and see everything black. Like my eyes and shit. That’s one hundred percent real! That’s me being myself. I feel comfortable that way … It give me like the goth feeling, like rockstars.”
WACK 100 must be a homosexual. Everytime he talks about this stuff he glows with happiness.
it means they like it up the dookie shute dis stuff not rocket science you can like getting d up in ya botty n pull a trigger its not rocket science or hard to be a gangsta
I mean its obvious these dudes aint gay, especially Youngboy with all them kids. But that still doesnt make it any less corny. But it seems the more you clown Gen Z stupid trends, the more they embrace it. You want them to stop doing it, get the old heads to copy them. I guarentee if Snoop or Birdman started wearing nail polish, Gen Z would ditch it quick. Kinda like reverse psychology.
Or you could just let people live and old heads go on and deal with adult lives and let adolescents be what they are. Learning and shaping, everyone tries a lot through life, at least they aren’t saggin pants selling booty the the much “cooler” old school cats lmao
You guys are being mentally shaped and dominated by the LGBTQ society and your generation isn’t smart enough to see it 🤡
What are you talking about? I see youngins sagging their pants all the time except now those pants are also extra skinny and tight along with the tight shirt, so the ass is all out there on display looking like its on sale for real
Yeah, sure 🙄
It’s very FUFU for a man to wear make up.
It’s just weird. Painting nails etc for a man. People need to raise their testosterone levels lol.
Why? So YOU can feel more comfortable with how another man lives his life? Sounds like the only person who needs to make an adjustment is you dude.
Is that u NBA young boy?
I have a cousin that’s been wearing his pinky polish since the like 90 and he’s not gay at all and it’s not new
There is absolutely no way that Wack 100 is 43 years old. my guy gotta be almost 50.