Atlanta rapper Lotto has just done a huge song collaboration with Jungkook of BTS
But some people of the army have dug up some of her old anti-asian tweets from back when she was 16 years old
Can she be canceled for this and should she feel bad? Let's talk about it
Yeah, I mean this went viral because Lotto and Jungkook Jungkook and Lotto's song
It has 74 million views Andrew. I know that you're a fan of that song seven. Yeah. No, it's a good song
It sounds good
I thought both people did well
But I can tell that they were not in the studio together working on it because they film the music video separate from each other
Right. No, it is possible that Jungkook and Lotto have never even met because nowadays
This is the name of the game in the industry in 2023, but we're gonna get into that Andrew first off
We got to talk about the racist tweets. She made when what she was 16 17 year old living in Atlanta
These are back from 2015
She said just cuz I don't eat cats and dogs doesn't make me fat when she was arguing with somebody
Maybe that was half Asian or something like that. She said you be cooking cats and dogs Taekwon Sookie. Shoo-poo. Yoo-joo-koo
Actually kind of funny in a way. Yes racist racist. She also says shout out to the plug Ling Ling on Tokyo Express
She stay hooking me up in South Lake and then she posted a photo with her and what looks to be an older Chinese lady
Who runs a takeout Chinese spot? Uh, yeah. So anyways guys, we're gonna get into the comments section
We'll give you our takeaways our perspective on it. Should she be canceled? Should she feel bad?
Or is this really not that big of a deal?
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David, where do you put this is silly man?
but I'm telling you there is a cross-section of BTS army fans who are also maybe um
I don't want to say like Twitter activists or you know being like the cancellation crowd
Yeah, and I'm not saying that they don't have anything valid to say like this is real dirt on model like lotto
Probably should apologize for these tweets
I don't know if she will because this the stir up might not be significant enough, but these were in poor taste
Yeah, anyways guys, so I'm gonna get into some quick thoughts before we get in the comment section
Um, I'm just gonna say it. These are racist tweets. They totally fall under that category. So I'm not gonna say oh, they're ignorant
Oh, she was young. They're racist. She was young. She probably has not said that stuff now
I don't know the context but they're not the worst tweets in the world. She wasn't like yo
Smiling with the older yeah, but no
Regardless not good to have on your Twitter
Okay, um, also I do not think uh jungkook, you know and her have met
Um, also we kind of give rappers kind of like a hood pass or a rap pass. You know what I mean?
Like yeah, it's more of a rap pass cuz the hood pass is more like if you're good in the hood
but like a rap pass it's almost like you can just say wild things that an
Educated person is not allowed to say because you're a rapper and I think we have to acknowledge that she comes from a different world
Than a lot of the people that are trying to cancel her right now
So I'm not saying it's okay
But I'm also just saying like which standards are we going by because trust me?
There's a lot of people out there with a lot of ignorant stuff on their Twitter even within hip-hop, you know
There's such an incredible range
You could be like Kendrick J Cole and you're gonna be held a really high standards most deaf
You could be somewhere in the middle like Drake
You know or even then you start to move towards their babies and then you start to get to the most ignorant
Which I would like blueface and I would say a lot of the poppin female rappers right now
Like that one girl with the song pound town pound town, you know
Like that's almost like blueface on the most ratchet end. Oh, yeah strip club music
I mean not to mention obviously and this gives nobody a pass but Suki Hana
She had some lines about being Asian. Oh my nani tight like an Asian. I Ching Chong
Yeah, anyways guys, but anyways again, what standards are we going by and what standards are we going to hold popular rappers, too?
I think it's fair to say that they should get checked. But anyways, let's get into the comments section David
Sorry, is it worth noting that she is 24 years old. She's Gen Z and she is also biracial
Yeah, I mean, that's why she or her original rap name was mulatto
She changed it because people were she said people were taking it the wrong way
She's already been through some kind of Twitter spat at least early on in her career
Yeah, for sure for sure. Like I said, hey guys, I'm not defending her. I'm not a fan of her music
I don't think she you know, but it just is like it's there's not an issue that I take serious
But I'm gonna talk about it because other some people took it serious
This is a deal to me but not a big deal to me
Somebody said the only reason lotto collaborated with jungkook in the first place was because of money and to get a wider audience
You know, they could have picked so many better people, but she was popping right now
She had a lot of pop raps out and it just made sense. Plus Scooter Braun is managing BTS right now
It was the English song. They want to get him more bigger in the u.s. So it's just all an industry plant thing
It's not like the old days. We're like rappers had to really mess with each other as
Homies to get the collab done. You're saying that
Jungkook did not necessarily co-sign her as an entire person or artist. They just got put together on tracks
It's literally like she could have just made her verse sent the audio over to the engineer that's doing
Jungkook's song and then literally they just put it together and then they film the music video separately because literally they're not in the scene
together and then apparently there's an explicit rap English version of seven where Jungkook swears and some people were like
Oh my gosh, that is so bad that he is being like American degenerate now
Like BTS is known for like good morals and stuff. And now the Scooter Braun is involved
They're trying to make him appeal to the West more by being degenerate. Oh
Interesting interesting. Somebody said but what if Jungkook is just maturing, huh? Why do you think it's just marketing?
What if that's just what he wants to do with his life because he's a grown man and he might be having sex and stuff
Oh
Jungkook is having sex
No, but I get it
Of course dude the music that BTS makes and got famous for versus the music that lotto makes is very different
It comes from different places in a different like message in a different culture and represents different things. Hell, yeah
Do it. What if Jungkook did a song with sexy rednecks? Oh
Some was a sad thing that she is sad thing is that lotto probably genuinely doesn't think she was being racist because racism against Asians
It's super normalized. Yeah, and then somebody said yes, especially in the hood ignorant comments or a normal thing
Somebody came through and said no Tina Fey is a hyper educated white woman who went to Northwestern and she has a lot of normalized
Racism and stuff that she wrote too. Yeah, there's racism from everybody and there's ignorance from everybody guys
I don't care whether you got a proper education or you got a proper education. I will say this though like I
Think a lot of stuff goes on in the hood. Like if you're from a certain community
There's a lot of hostility
Hostile words said about everything not just race and everybody to everybody
Yeah from everybody to everybody wet men to women little kid bigger kids
I oh even somebody who just like has a big forehead or
Whatever the physical feature that is clown a bore. Let's just say they speak differently with like, you know, everybody
Yes, it is true though
What is saying like, you know, you could hear like a Ling Ling joke depending on what zone you're in absolutely and that is ignorant
But yeah, everywhere is different. Um, this white guy said how come if it was a white artist, then it would be a racist tweet
But since it is a black artist, it is only considered a controversial tweet
Isn't that a double standard if she was a straight white male? She would be getting canceled a lot harder than she is right now
Yeah
I actually think that the people who are trying to have a conversation about race relations in this
On this matter are not lotto fans. They might not be
Even Jungkook fans either like I think these people are just coming in to say well, you know what if it was a white guy
Who did this it was a white girl this the what-ifs, of course, it would be seen differently
I'm gonna be honest
It would be seen different it would it would it would be but you're right that Billy Bob has no idea who lotto or Jungkook
Yes, and you know, it's crazy to think that BTS represents the Asian community and that lotto represents the african-american
Yeah, no, I'm not again. I don't want to say everybody talks like lotto either
I would never say that, you know, somebody said I'm I'm not gonna lie. I kind of don't expect much from rappers
I can't think of many who haven't said or done something racist sexist or homophobic
This is what this is a comment more from I think a BTS fan. They have an anime avatar
Yeah
My whole thing is is like, you know
We reward a lot of these artists for being edgy and cool and saying these
Hypermasculine or sexual things that are on the borderline all the time literally they either are offensive or their borderline
Whether white or black we talk about Eminem or we talking about everybody's whatever
I mean, even if you want to go back to Johnny Cash, which was not hip-hop
He's talking about getting in shootout. Yeah, like that's just music. You know what I mean?
Well, it's Western music and that has not been allowed in the east
That's true
You cannot talk about having shootouts with the cops whether in a country song a reggae song or a hip-hop song in the east
Well, maybe this is why people like afro beats right now because it just sounds like a good time and it's positive
Yeah, I mean it listen guys a lot
I'm not all rap, but a lot of rap right now in 2023 is talking about shooting. Okay, but but and I acknowledge that and obviously
I'm tuning out of a lot of rap music right now, but not necessarily a lot of music doesn't bother me
But I got some asking David what standards are we going by because you have the cancellation crowd that wants to cancel people?
But they're not coming from the same place that lotto is coming from now
Is it wrong that lotto comes from this area and wants to talk about that life?
I mean if she's committing crimes, it's wrong
But like at the end of the day if she's being sexual and just being her or being like little her from Atlanta
Born in Ohio Columbus, Ohio, then yeah, I don't know. She's that like
Violent in her legs, but yeah for sure. I mean it's edgy and it's very sexual, right?
Um, somebody just said this these are comments from actually black fans of BTS that are also part of the black community
Obviously familiar with the hip-hop world and lotto's music
They were saying, you know a lot of stuff that is considered like improper is really common in the hood and
Who knows she just grew out of it when she was 16 now. She's what?
24 and she's just like probably past that and why are you trying to cancel her now?
Right and somebody said yeah, listen guys. We all grow
This is another comment from an african-american girl, and she was just saying Asians, you know stereotype black people worldwide, too
So it goes both ways. I
Mean I guess if we always want to use that argument, you know, I don't I don't love that argument
But again, like I'm saying like I I don't again think that this is the biggest deal. Yeah
Yeah, I don't even think this is a big deal, but you're right did I don't know if that is the best
I'll tell you this if lotto comes out to be connected to some type of hate crime or even any shred of violence or
Ill-doing towards Asians then let that come out and let that be something right just kind of teasing people on Twitter at that time. I
Think she even said in a year. I was watching an interview about her name change from mulatto to lotto and she was just kind
Of like yeah, I just I thought Twitter was different back then. I mean, I hope people understand
It's just I wasn't meaning something she was referring to that
But maybe she could use that same excuse here an Asian girl said she need to apologize and do some activism
Cancel culture ain't it for proof that you've changed and someone said do some activism made me laugh and someone said yeah
She ain't gonna do ish and then somebody was just like yo
What are you guys thinking like everybody is like? Oh you need to do better. You need to apologize
They were saying look at this the dynamics of who has the power and all the money here
She's not even gonna ever address this alright, so I have a question David
Do you think it's fair to say that if this kind of like Twitter?
Cancellation thing gets a little bit stronger that this wave goes that she should apologize one at least in a tweet and just be like
Yo, my bad like I didn't mean it back then. I was young you know I was stupid and also should jungkook
Also step up and say something because he is benefiting from her being on the song too as much as she's benefiting from him
Yeah, I mean honestly what I truly believe is the actual probable outcome if you made me bet money is neither of them
We're gonna address it. Yeah, honestly. That's really what's gonna happen
Somebody said oh
I was on the age of the internet when I was 15 or 16 and I never said stuff like this and someone said come
On the human brain is not fully developed scientifically until the mid 20s guys
Why are we always trying to cancel people the second someone becomes successful everybody combs through every single word you said when you were a
Teenager and tries to take you down from your spot
I mean, you know it's both valid just like you could tweet whatever you wanted to tweet when you were 16
Somebody is free to go back into your history and also bring it back up again though and rehash it um she said
She probably thinks that only white people can be racist and somebody said that racism comes from different racial prejudice hatred or discrimination
Institutional policies and practices therefore POC people cannot be racist by definition
Lotto does not have the power to do so however. She can be racially prejudiced or discriminatory
So this is just a it turning into like more macro discussion. Yeah, I don't I don't really I mean
I do you I don't really want to get into this discussion of like who can black people be racist or not I mean dude
People can have racist feel anybody can have racist feelings
I think actually when people made this argument. I see where they were coming from when the liberal professors were saying yeah
They're basically saying that racist and institutionally racist are the same thing however
To me to say that you have to say no
I think a lot of people who do not run institutions, then it would be very difficult to be institutionally racist
But person a person absolutely you can be racist. I think there are different types of racism
Maybe we should make a video on what I did
But we should make a video on what we consider different types of racism because there's different levels just like there's different levels of crime
They're all crimes, but let's be honest there are different levels of crimes and different severity levels that deserve different punishment
So anyways, I'm just gonna leave it right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um somebody said um
Man someone said growing up in the hood. It was just so racist towards Asians
Is this just something that Asians have to deal with like Asians growing up in the hood and the hood is just like we said
Before a very hostile place against anybody everybody like nobody thinks growing up in the hood is like pleasant, right?
Right there's pleasant moments though
And it really depends on obviously what tier of hood you grow up into I mean I would say this if you've spent a lot
of time in
Certain neighborhoods or whatever like that you see everything you see a lot of hostile interactions
You see some mixed ones like ones that start off hostile and end up good
and you see ones where it is like uh
You know what I mean like a Romeo must die like type like you know young Jeezy Genie my situation you see that too
So I'm just saying you see
Everything happen if you've seen enough reps. Yeah, you know what I mean, so it's not it's but yeah, of course
Yeah, it's hostile to everybody to be an extent. I mean that's like a
Highly probable outcome, okay, David some people do want to point out and we're saying that
Historically and this might have been also when she was young
But she's also a colorist because she's always like talking about how she was light-skinned versus like you know
She was repping mulatto, which is she's actually biracial. I'm not just like skin specifically
She's by right her mom's why and then also I guess she had said some transphobic stuff
I'm not sure what in a lot of these comments actually came from African American women who were more familiar with the past
I don't think a lot of BTS fans Andrew to be honest knew a lot about Lotto prior to the song with Jungkook
I didn't know a lot about Lotto until I did the research um so I guess I guess if she has a history
I would I think that
Yeah, it is fair for her to come out and be like hey guys
There were some things I said when I was like 16 17 trying to come up those were silly
I don't say those things anymore. I'm sorry, but you know I'm just trying to I'm just trying to make good music now
It's like even if she said that that would be cool. I saw this really interesting comment somebody said why why is it always so funny?
Okay to make fun of Asians and nobody cares nobody takes racism against Asians seriously
And I believe a Latino guy came in and said by the way
I'm from another country originally one thing that I learned is that
Americans do not respect any culture that is not popularized by pop culture
They only learn what they see in media
And they never open a book or travel to see to discover the the world on their own at least us growing up overseas
We know our local culture is not popular, so we have to understand American culture and our local music
But we know that nobody else, but us cares about our own music
He said that Americans are so entitled that the American worldview is their worldview, but growing up overseas
They know that there's a duality of modes. They got to switch through
So yeah, I mean I think the more popular that Asian culture gets or Asian artists yet
I do think that there is gonna be less tolerance for this type of stuff
I actually believe I actually agree with what he said though. Yeah, yeah, America's kind of weird like that huh because it's almost like
Yeah, there's no you don't have to switch off modes like if you're growing up in some small country in like Central Europe or Eastern
Europe David this this quote if you do something and you become famous in
2023 many people will look through your past and try to dig up dirt
Yeah, I think so is that right or wrong. I mean if you leave dirt on the internet for everybody to see
Yeah, you're gonna have to respond to it
I think everybody does yeah
But I think that people are gonna make power dynamic calculations in the same sense that if this fur over this
Her 16 year old tweets doesn't get too big. I don't think lotto is really gonna care right?
I guess they were wrapping it up like what standards are we holding rappers to because we let
Rappers say a lot of stuff, and there's even this law
I think in California where they said oh you can't use rappers song lyrics to help
Prosecute them in court you know I mean they admit to crimes in their lyrics or whatever I mean listen guys
I don't know. I mean, I think it's really. I think it's really complicated. I think that if you look at a
Lot of hip-hop obviously not all of it
It's like definitely super edgy, and I think you can argue about it's like actual long-term impacts on society whether it's negative or positive
Or did it stimulate the economy or did it?
Incept a lot of people with you know
To ratchet of thoughts, I don't know you know
Listen man. I'm not in control of it
I just know that there's a system in America where people monetize it yeah, and they encourage it
And it's you know and this goes for all colors, too
I mean like Eminem as well like not I'm not like signaling out just african-american rappers for sure for sure
I think moving forward as far as this lotto thing goes like if other Asian artists see this and they look past it and
They collab with lotto then that's their choice. You mean she becomes like the number one kpop feature rapper
No
If she does then that's gonna speak volumes of how big of a deal people think this is now you can get mad at your
kpop artists if it's
Jimin does a song with her or whoever else j-hope does another song with her does a song with her
I'm saying like then you need to still hold your artists accountable if you're part of the army
And this is your artist then let them know
Something wrong, too
I'm saying like there's a little bit of responsibility on the ad scooter brawner
Yeah, you gotta set it up whoever set up the collab. Oh with the West
But also I think personally I think she could fire off an apology tweet. I think it'd be cool
I think it would be cool for her to do that if she cares
I would like and and obviously if the Asia management has I would like for her to do it
I think she could just be like yo silly my bad like you know
I don't say those things anymore
Or you know what I would say could be a way to like hedge in the middle for us like if she just posted something like
Pro Asian with her with the the Asian lady from the mall if she still runs that shop
But without that's like saying something without really saying it right right right just showing support today
I mean at the end of the day guys. I don't really take like even within rappers, man
I'm gonna take like what J Cole and Kendrick say more seriously than blueface and
Or the baby says about society and just like for female rappers
I'm gonna care more about what Lauryn Hill or BIA says you what I mean like
Not that you should be caring about what rappers say about anything to be honest. I mean just like it for the music
Yeah, it's okay to say hey this rapper is
not as
Smart of a rapper as this rapper different types of rappers alright everybody
Let us know in the comments down below does this bother you what do you think lotto should do and should other Asian artists?
Cancel her like out of like you know cancel it off the list of people to work with and how big of a deal is
This really or is it just existing within a very small cross-section of multiple Venn diagram layers of the BTS army
Let us know what you think in the comments section below keep it civil until next time we got a hot pop boys
We out peace