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What’s with the the Tyla controversy/fall-off (her album went triple aluminum apparently)

Anonymous 4w

Ooo long story but go look up interview off of charlamagne tha gods radio channel

Anonymous 4w

Tyla, they could never make me hate you. Basically, Tyla considers herself, as per South African race “rules,” coloured which is a derogatory term in the United States. She corrects people who call her Black, because 1. She’s not and 2. she would only be black according to the one drop rule which is an American archetype. South Africa has a very varied history when it comes to race and coloured is its own conundrum, but basically it’s what coloured = mixed ancestry.

Anonymous 4w

Never heard of her till Travis Scott feature 🤷‍♂️, never heard of her after Travis Scott feature

Anonymous

#2 4w

Tyla has mixed Indian, Black, and I think Dutch parents, but is simply considered colored, as South African racial convention dictates. People believe that because she promotes in US and is partially Black, she should fully embrace it when people call her Black. This fails to understand that, by doing so, Tyla would alienate her fellow coloured South Africans, which is the one thing she does NOT want to do, given she works with South Africans, makes South African music, is South African, etc.

Anonymous

#2 4w

Her not wanting to be called Black makes Americans think she looks down on Black women, which I personally don’t get the vibe from. She’s also kind of a weird, in the sense that she makes a big deal about not holding her own trophies. I’m pretty sure it’s a bit, because it’s funny and it’s happened a lot, but also who cares? She vaguely addresses the criticisms against her in her song Mr. Media in the WWP release (banger, go listen to it).

Anonymous

#2 4w

South African isn’t a race . . . It’s a country which makes her nationality South African because by American standards if she’s to fill out any legal document here in this country when she selects race she’ll mark black/African hell maybe mixed if she truly has mixed ancestry. But when someone looks at her they just see a brown skin black woman, that’s just looks not her opening her mouth yet. Shes darker than beyonce who is fully black so yeah of first glance one could say Tyla’s black.

Anonymous

#1 4w

But first glance is simply not identity. I apologize as if I came off as saying South African is a race, I meant to say coloured is. If she’s to fill out any legal document in the US, she marks mixed race/multiple choices/whatever. If my cousin, an albino black woman with Eurocentric features, at first glance appears white, is she white? No, she’s still black. Just as Tyla is still mixed.

Anonymous

#2 4w

I think terminology is what confuses people, using coloured vs mixed, and also the connotation of what being mixed in South African means. It’s a very sordid history I think all people everywhere should learn about.