Rapper Mulatto Hints At A Possible Name Change Following Backlash
Mulatto has been making a bunch of headlines over her great music and freestyles but the rising star has also been the trending topic on Twitter several times over her stage name and past remarks.
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As HotNewHipHop points out, Mulatto was recently dragged for identifying as Black on social media, despite saying she doesn’t like to call herself Black or White in an old interview. At the time, she said she actually preferred the term she uses as her stage name. While she has stood behind her decision to be identified as Miss Mulatto, she‘s now considering a possible name change.
In a new interview with HipHopDX, she hinted at the possibility of changing her controversial stage name from Mulatto to her alternate-nickname Big Latto: “I can’t say too much because we’re working on something right now, but I would be lying to say it hasn’t crossed my mind before,” Mulatto told DX. “It is a controversy that I hear and see every day as far as my name goes, so I would be lying to say no I never thought of that. But I can’t say too much because right now, because it’s going to be a part of something bigger,” she told the outlet.
The 21-year-old who appeared on Jermaine Dupri‘s Lifetime show, The Rap Game, but turned down the SoSo Def chain in 2016, explained the meaning behind her name:
“I’m passionate about my race,” she said, 15 years old at the time. “I’m Miss Mulatto. The term mulatto technically is a racist slur. It means someone that’s half black and half white. So it’s, like, controversial. I took that negativity from the word mulatto and now…everybody calls me Miss Mulatto. Why do I have to choose one or the other? I’m both. That’s what I want to go by.”
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