Nicki Minaj was the musical guest for the season finale of Saturday Night Live on Saturday (May 19).
During her performance, the Queens superstar did a live rendition of “Chun-Li” while wearing traditional Japanese garb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJUcecTVyGs
Minaj, whose performance comes ahead of her forthcoming album Queen, also wore chopsticks in her hair, had several Asian backup dancers and used an Asian-style pavilion as part of the backdrop.
After the show aired, Twitter exploded with tweets accusing Minaj of cultural appropriation. Many people questioned why a white Utah teenager was recently accused of cultural appropriation for attending her high school senior prom in a Chinese-themed dress while Minaj seemed to get a pass.
Last September, Minaj spoke out against the cultural appropriation in the fashion industry while performing at Philipp Plein Spring/Summer ’18 runway show during New York Fashion Week.
“Thank you for including our culture,” she said. “Designers get really big, really rich off of our culture, and then you don’t see a motherfucker that look anything like us in the front row half the time.”
Nonetheless, multiple Twitter users were outraged Minaj wasn’t held accountable for Saturday’s appearance on SNL.
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It’s gonna hurt more bc of the comments she made back in the day. What’s not good for the goose, is not good for the gander. Anyhoo, not a fan but I will say she did come hard on the other single.
“Icky” Minaj done fucked up this time. This shit is straight racist and patronizing Japanese people.
I mean Chun Li is Chinese and the outfit is Chinese really speaks volumes about how racist everyone is assuming Asian cultures are all the same.
He didnt think its the same he confused it Japanese. Big difference
Nicki is a piece of shit for trying to make money off making a mockery of Japanese culture. Fuck her and her pedo brother.
And you’re just as much as piece of shit for assuming all Asian cultures are the same. She’s making a mockery of Chinese people not Japanese.
2 points
First, I don’t think the other girl was cultural appropriation. Nothing is inaproriate about copying a style. Fashion is fashion. She’s not wearing black face or an equivalent.
The situations surrounding the fashion statement are different. Isn’t she saying that the designers copy a cultural style without including those very people who inspire them. At least Nicki has people who represent the culture surrounding her. You can see she is inspired by them, which negates appropriation arguments and furthermore the argument can be made she worked hard to prevent that view from being pushed, by not having any non-Asian dancers you can see in the song, which is in stark contrast to the diversity her dancers usually show.
I mean the song is inspired by a video games Japanese character, if she didn’t have some representation of the only part most people associate with that character (outfit +hair) it just wouldn’t even make sense…
Imo anyway. People need to stop being so defensive. There’s a difference between dressing a style and representing the community that started it and appropriation.. The difference is the representation of that community that is inspiring the person.
asian-americans grandstanding about supposed “cultural appropriation” is getting nauseating…if u notice it is only stuck up americans who have this mindset, actual Asians appreciate Americans paying homage to their culture.
Is that why cultural appropriating claims usually come from black people???
Because double standards go far beyond sex & gender
Wow some people are nuts. The song is called chun Li so she has Asian dancers and they all dressed like traditional Asians. It makes sense to me because it goes with the track. WHAT …is she supposed to dress all hood or maybe in her underwear? This is the snowflake generation all soft and very little common sense. This world is heading downhill fast.
Welcome to the age of snowflakeism my friend. That Heineken commercial was some snowflake shit too
HAHAHA. All these years White People were shamed and called ot for the exact same thing. Not even one week ago a White Women been called out for doing a female Version of “this is america” but now were the shoe is on the other foot all the sudden people need to lighten up a little?? SMFH
Nickie is 0.3 part Asian, lets not discriminate on her cause she doesn’t look the part, haha
She is part Indian. That might be Asian but not Chinese. Huge difference
Trinidadian. Not Indian. Just brown.
TBH is not the isuue here that Capcom appropriated Asian culture? Nikki appears to be appropriating Street fighter culture not asain culture
Why? they all asian Characters. You sound dumb, bro. Black Panther is Cultural appropriating now all the sudden too?
So ballrogg Vega Ken Re Asian on Street fighter? You do know that she is invoking Street fighter Chun li right? If so I don’t understand . Should the wrath be directed at Capcom ? If notthene why? Nikki has respect for all cultures. IAM really happy people are trying to reverse the appropriation debate.i hope everyone is willing to discuss other injustices too.
No, they not but also not supposed to be Asian and they not pretend to be Asian. You know that people fighting around the world not just in Asia, right?? Damn it feels like I’m talking to retarded people
So why are you angry at her if you know all the characters are not Asian and you know she is bigging up the characters Chum li from Street fighter ?
Are you really that dumb?? The Characters you mention are not Asian and dont try look Asian therefore they not appropriating Asian Culture they have nothing to do with Asians. Do you even know what Cultural appropriation means? You definitely the dumbest person I’ve seen on the Internet for a while
Unfortunately this may be only time you can get to see Asians on tv. How difficult and unfair is is to see Asians on television without the stereotypical Kung Fu and make things worst it’s some whitey being the lead character in today’s entertainment.
Honestly, the only reason why I feel some type of way about this is because people point out that Asian people appropriate black culture so I feel obligated to say Nicki is appropriating Asian culture. I think this cultural appropriation accusation nonsense is going a bit too far for all races.
That has never been said. Provide an example.ple of this. Black artists love Asian culture.
Nikki minaj actually has a Japanese grandfather idiots so she does have Asian heritage
Wrong!!! 1. Chun-li and her whole outfit etc. is Chinese not Japanese. Completely different Culture. 2. Her Grandfather is South Asian (Indian/Hindu) descent. Thats not even close to Japanese nor Chinese.
Trinidadian. Not Indian. Just Brown.
How do you measure this? By how young and naive you are ? Nothing comes from one culture or group. It’s all hybrids!!!!
More cultural appropriation for you kiddies: 1) when the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and Elvis danced like an African Americans and ripped off blues licks in the 50s, 60s and 70s 2) when Wu-Tang Clan littered their beats with Kung-Fu and Shaolin references 3) When The Clash and The Police used reggae to propel their careers in the 70s and 80s 4) when KRS One used a Jamaican accent for Bridge is Over and Black Cop 5) When Jamaican artists used American Doo-Wop sounds to form Ska/reggae as a sound 6) when Kendrick Lamar and J Cole don dreadlocks without any ascription to Rastafarianism…where do you draw the line because all art and cultures borrow references from other cultures…Even within the cultures different groups arguably stole say Jamaican dancehall for instance from the poor and destitute and then, re-branded them with polished elite ready versions performed by wealthier performers like Sean Paul or Damian Marley …are you supposed to never eat Italian spaghetti because it came from Chinese noodles? get real people. Nothing created comes from nothing. If you think this you are naive about history. I ain’t no right wing fear-mongering idiot but this mentality is precisely what helped create Trump. Dumb leftist political correctness which makes no sense. This is hiphop people. Remember this is the first music to shock the world by saying bitches and hoes every other line. Political correctness is for liars and fakes. It has never had any place in hiphop
The whole idea of cultural appropriation is a joke because
Well appropriation does exist. The examples used show people borrowing respectfully. This enhances and promotes the culture being borrowed from. However there have been many instances of people taking from a culture and not respecting it or giving back. This has been done a lot to black music by corporate America. We all know the right way of doing things. Borrow respectfully
Yeah, and at least all the white people you mentioned been called out for this for years and now all the sudden its okay??
People need to chill with all this bullshit appropriation. Hiphop is about taking from one thing and making your own. Look at all the samples no one was complaining then so why are people acting like bitches now?
her fake ass cheeks are cultural appropriation, her fake boobs are silicone appropriation and her garbage lyrics are trash appropriation, they nailed this one right on the head this time 🙂
Aw shit ???
Gwen Stefani also did this & no one complained. sit down triggered whites..so insecure trying to hit back against blacks.
I don’t see why whites would give a shit about this. I’m sure most of the triggered folk are from the Asian community
White people feel they’re under siege, somehow lol. This is how we got our current President.
No one complained?? You are delusional, pal. You think just because it happened years ago nobody remembers the backlash she got?? Just google it. All Articles about the topic DEMANDING an apology from Gwen Stefani for doing it. Stop the with double Standards
Remember people, this is the same bitch who bailed out a child r.apist. She has no morals, so why even be surprised at this shit.
Judging by some of the comments, people think it’s ok for blacks to culturally appropriate but not for whites? Hmmm???
the problem is people don’t know what cultural appropriation is. it’s not really a double standard. it’s ignorance.
It’s been proven whites are pieces of dog shit that’s ehy they don’t get a pass for shit fuck em hang em dry
Fuck’em stop breaking bread with them cocksuckers real shit, stop teaching them shit ,etc. They beauty supplies and nail shops got fat!
If I rock a pair of Nikes and I’m not American am I appropriating American culture?
Its actually white Culture. Since Nikes were made by whites, like basketball too but everything made by white is somehow public domain and its only Culture Vulturing if you take from black culture. Its hilarious how this website is full of people whining about culture Vultures every freaking day but turn into appropriation apologists when the shoe is on the other foot.
Kind of, really everything is made by asians so nicki is just doing what everyone else is guilty of.
The world is being taken over by sensitive pussies. Fuck everyone offended by this and fuck the term “cultural appropriation”.
Those raidan looking mothers should have gave her a dragon punch then we could have seen if she is Chun Li.
“Twitter Cries” should be the lead in to every story in 2018
What is this world coming too!!! The name of the song is Chun Li did you expect her to come out gym shorts and Jordan’s on with half naked back up dancers twerking all show lol… it was actually dope performance. And if these MF read more she actually giving shout out to that culture and The Wu actually helped her out!!! Smh let ppl live and stop judging everything we do.
Isn’t Niki part Asian??
Nope
She has Indo-Trini roots… India is definitely in Asia. With that being said, Indian isn’t Chinese sooo…
So nowadays we can’t be influenced by a culture and try to pay homage to that culture because then its labeled as ‘cultural appropriation’? FOH!!! That means I gotta stop listening to Nas and stop wearing my hat backwards too before a hispanic like me gets hit with that too.. .bunch of hypocrites
cultural apporpiation is not a real thing, if you believe it is, you’re just promoting segregation
Truth be told.
At the end of the day what fucking difference does it make? These days the vast majority doesnt even know what true racism is. Cultural appropriation is just a 2018 buzzterm that sad people use online to try and call out faults in other ethnicities. Pathetic really.
Yep
I’m sorry, but if we want to tally up the “cultural appropriation” scorecards, Black people been getting shit lifted from them for eons now. At least she had some Asian performers up there with her, I thought that made it ok when fucking Scarlett Johansson did Ghost in the shell?? No? How about Matt Damon and Tom Cruise? I know people are just done with Nicki, and I thought she was trash since she blew up, but this is nonsense…
Motherfucker it’s the other way around. Black people be crying 24/7 about culture appropration but when they do it they roll into the victim role.
It’s different because there has been long term undying historical evidence of white people stealing and appropriating other filters. The Nazis even stole the swastika symbol. Watch these commercials, what music is playing in the background, of its not hip hop its a white person singing music from a black group. They’ve stole dances, slang, they’ve even stole hairstyles and said they created it. They stole even stole music genres like they’re attempting to do with hip hop right now. In my experince when black people have done it,It was because that’s what they were into like Wu tang, they didn’t take after Asian culture because it was cool, they did it because they legitimately liked it and respected it that culture. The problem with white people is they do it to look cool and they don’t respect it. Not to mention that everywhere white people have gone they’ve historically fucked it up. If we’re going to cry hypocrisy lets take a look at the USA rightfully going after hitler for killing if Jews and having concentration camps all the while licking Asians in concentration camps at the same time. That’s why it’s different between blacks and whites. Read some history.
Chun li is Chinese. That syle of dress is Chinese.
This site has become submental.
……LMAOOOO
this is actually hilarious. Kung fu kenny? y’all just don’t like nicki for some odd reason. Notice everyone complaining is of the umm….caucasian descent? lol pop culture is black appropriation if you wanna keep it 100. it’s all entertainment..so who cares..if the race being honored don’t care?
Honestly this cultural appropriation shit is just a fucking 2018 buzzterm used to passive-aggressively justify peoples arrogant and bigoted viewpoints. The average american doesnt even know what true racism is anymore.
This is lame… Twitter must be in a tizzy, lol! Stop it wit da bullshit and fake outrage.
Not Japanese garb, Chinese. It is like calling Shohei Ohtani a Chinese baseball player.
Amen
Arigato my neggas
This cultural appropriation thing is getting out of hand. First of all people of color don’t have a racist history of telling ppl what is or not acceptable in society. Nor do we have a history of disregarding and disrespecting other cultures. We don’t have a hateful past period. We embrace other cultures and repect those who repect us. Secondly when I think about culture appropriation I think about Kim K, Racheal D, and many others who appropriate BLK culture for their benefit, taking things and renaming it. Such as BLK hairstyles are frown upon yet it’s a trend and ok for white ppl to wear them, cultural appropriation workings in this way throughout America history. Nikki had Asian performers on stage along with her so there is no appropriation going on in this instance. Chun Li is a video game character and my fav from mortal combat so I am guilty of appropriation cause I like that character. Secondly I remember a time in the 90’s where it was a trend to wear chopsticks and play Chinese jump rope not once did anyone scream cultural appropriation. It was understood that their was no malicious intent. Unlike when it’s BLK ppl culture it’s always malicious intent based on America’s racist history. This is nothing but an attempt from white people to use reverse psychology on everyone to divert the attention away from their Savage ways.
You mean, for example, black girls who wear blonde and red wigs and weave? I suppose that Utah teenager had malicious intent when she wore the Chinese dress to prom? What about black blues musicians using instruments and chord progressions invented by white people? You’re not as smart as you think you are.
You stole my argument bro. The sh– that teenager coped was pathetic.
Your argument is like when blk people say they cant be racist because they dont have power which is just an attempt to divert the attention away from their pure fkn racist ways. Was the white girl who wore an asain dress to the prom recently, who got hated on, doing it out of disrespect or for other bs reasons you state? No, she wasnt. Curb your racism, tryhard. If the bs others get called out for cultural appropriation for is, nicki deserves it for this. Personally, I think the whole thing is pc gone crazy and is just due to sjws with nothing better to do with their time. Factsonly.
“First of all people of color don’t have a racist history of telling ppl what is or not acceptable in society. Nor do we have a history of disregarding and disrespecting other cultures. We don’t have a hateful past period. ”
-Have you heard of Boko Haram? The organization in Chad, Niger, and Cameroon will kill you for not being Muslim and/or embracing Western culture. Are they not people of color?
ahhhh, CHUN LI IS FROM STREET FIGHTER 2 AND NOT MORTAL KOMBAT, smh lmao
I was with you up until you said Chun Li from Mortal Combat with a C.
You say your guilty of appropriation cause you like that character? I don’t think you understand what the word means.
At least she didn’t rhyme ding dong with ching chong lol… but all that aside, who told her these songs were hot in the first place?
‘Twitter Cries’ aka ‘losers whinge’
This song was fyah, this show was on point. Nicki is still rich and top of the chart and we all are still breathing with a chance to be better than we were yesterday. Everyone needs to sit down and drink some damn tea. It isn’t that big of a deal. The teenager from Ohio had an awesome prom night, and she isnt sweating anyone of us or anyone other than her close friends and family. And guess what, the sun is still shining and birds are still chirping. Twitter, it isn’t this serious.
To the Nicki Minaj thing, she aint uplifting no kinda asian shit w these hoe ass theatrics. She using the whole theme to make her stand out and having asian dancers dont give u a pass. Thats cultural appropriation at its finest: she tryna gain something at the expense of another culture because she aint givin back to it or even droppin some type of knowledge of it to give reverance, plain n simple. The white girl w the dress tho? Bitch thought the dress was cute and wanted to rock it, found out it got some history to it and honestly thought specifically slidin to prom in that shit would be worthy of the dress’ history. Fan of it or not, it wasn’t appropriation, lil bitch wanted to give the dress a rightful wear.
The problem is, this new generation is just waaay to sensitive and PC. Does this mean the Wu-Tang Clan (who are considered legends) have been appropriating Chinese culture for the past 25 years? Yes they have, but everybody wasn’t so sensitive and PC back in the 90s…man, if Wu-Tang launched in 2018 (instead of 1993) they would be the most protested/controversial group in hip hop. Times have definitely changed
On point! Good comment. This is why the left is losing members. People don’t want to be associated with this BS.
WuTang truly appreciated the culture. I don’t think you can say the same for Nicki or the white chick… They don’t know anything about Asia.
But the Asian love our culture we go hand and hand any black person goes to Asia we get treated better than whites only reason they like whites is to take their money but man this generation so soft Twitter fight everything
Dear black people
Hahahahahahaha
So if you are of Asian decent, I think her father’s grandfather was Japanese, is that cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation. Help me understand the complaint.
My great great great great great great grandfather was native American. Doesnt mean i couldnt appropriate the culture as im so far removed from it and know nothibg about it.
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.
These stuck up priveleged asian americans whining about cultural appropriation are nauseating. Meanwhile they have no problem appropriating other cultures. Look at all these little chinese girls trying to be rappers now a days, look at Jin back in the day. Look at how they drink american whiskey and dress up like cowboys and listen to bruce springsteen and all that shit over in japan.
The left is to blame for this. Cultural appropriation is not a thing, another nothing issue the left has devised. 4 more years, #MAGA
Cultural appropriation only applies to whites.
Who writes the news? The other cultural appropriation thing was pushed by white media. It was only a few Twitter comments.