If you don’t know who Angelica Vila is, then you’re going to learn today.
Fat Joe‘s protege walked the black carpet at the Tidal X Rock the Vote benefit concert on Monday (Oct 21). She wore a long sleeved, green tie dye, distressed dress with a turtle neck. She paired it with white knee high boots, white shades, and silver accessories.
Two Bees TV caught up with Roc Nation artist and she shed some light on why her vote is important as a young adult. “I feel like it’s very very important for me to vote because every vote counts one vote could make a difference.”
The host, Miss2Bees, tried to get her to weigh in on the Gina Rodriguez controversy with her rapping the N-word, but she played it safe saying everyone can do what they want.
When it comes to her mentor, veteran rapper, Joey Crack, she admits she has learned a lot from him and he stresses the importance of her keeping tunnel vision and not losing hersefl while perfecting her craft.
How come some Hispanic people can say the N word … and others can’t ? It confuses me ! If you are gonna have outrage at Gina Rodriguez…what about Cardi B and other that get a pass ? #ginarodriguez
Cardi never accepted being black. She embraces black cultures in the same way culture vultures do. She acts like a bw until its time to be a bw. https://t.co/wUfG8IT7qc
But the crazy shit is when I did videos like this people used to say are you black “but you speak Spanish so I just started saying I’m carribean cause had to always argue and then people started claiming that I don’t claim my blackness.Its like it’s always a L https://t.co/9zrqrXqYfP
There is a larger conversation to be had here about what is blackness? Earlier this fall, at the beginning of National Hispanic History Month, Fat Joe went on Hot 97 and told the world that he is Black.
“All the music is African: Brazilian music, Dominican Music. Spanish Drums. All the music African music.” Fat Joe declared to Hot 97’s Ebro. “You getting on the Afrobeat now. I been in Africa. They been doing that.”
“Even in Puerto Rico when you go to Caribbean… Let’s speak about Latinos not being Black,” Joe said. “Latinos are Black. In Cuba, at one time, there was eight million Cubans. Five million, unfortunately, were slaves. Three million were actual Cubans, and they integrated and had babies. Same thing with Puerto Rico when you go to Loíza. And when you talk about Santeria, that came from the motherland Africa. Sometimes, Latinos may even identify themselves with African and Black culture more than Black people. This ain’t no crazy thing. Fat Joe ain’t on crack. He know what he talking about.”
Gina Rodriguez can’t seem to keep her mouth shut. It seems like every time we look up, she is saying something offensive to Black people. Poor child, she seems to not get it. Last year, she cut Yara Shahidi off while she was talking to exert herself into a conversation of racial and gender-based discrimination (which by the way we are sure she experiences… she is Latina afterall). She also was called to the carpet for various other conversation, seeming diminishing the Black woman’s struggle- as a plight that Latina women in Hollywood share- She has since apologized. Now, she is getting dragged for saying the n-word.
Why would she do that?
To be fair, she did not say the n-word. She sang it. She sang while rapping along with The Fugees 1996 hit, “Ready or Not.” Defiantly, she opted out from singing the sanctioned radio friendly version and said the unedited version with the racial derogatory epithet.
Yo Gina… nobody told you that you can’t do what Lauryn does? Ms. Hill does what ever she wants!!! If she says front n-word gives her heebie geebies… they do.. and L Boogie could have said it with the hard “R,” and no one would care… you can’t. It is just that simple.
Well maybe it is not.
Pras from the group The Fugees told TMZ that he is not sure if Rodriguez has a pass into the culture to say the word. The producer said that there are some Latinos who have the distinct privilege to dib and dab in Black culture because they are embedded in it. Who? Pras says he gives those passes to Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B (who considers herself Afro Latina) and Fat Joe (who considers himself Afro Latino).
The best way to show you’re truly sorry is by changing , they say. But in actress Gina Rodriguez’s case, she’s hoping a social media press release will do the talking.
The Miss Bala star took to Instagram once again Tuesday night to address a video she posted earlier that day where, while singing along to the Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” Rodriguez said the n-word.
Gina Rodriguez, known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in Jane the Virgin, is facing backlash for saying the n-word in a recent Instagram Story post. pic.twitter.com/YRmZvZBGo6
Originally, Rodriguez delivered a passive-aggressive “apology” via her Instagram Stories. “I’m sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to the Fugees, to a song I love, that I grew up on—I love Lauryn Hill—and uhm, I really am sorry if I offended you,” Rodriguez said. Apparently Rodriguez learned her lesson rather quickly and after
backlash she delivered part two of her apology which was a lot more remorseful: “The word I sang, carries with it a legacy of hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine,” she wrote in her Notes app statement. “Whatever consequences I face for my action today, none will be more hurtful than the personal remorse I feel. I feel so deeply protective and responsible to the community of color, but I have let this community down,” she added. “I have some serious learning and growing to do and I am so deeply sorry for the pain I have caused.”
Rodriguez’s remarks on race—specifically, inaccurate and anti-black comments have caused backlash before , Because of that her lack of self-awareness, mixed with a complete and unwavering commitment to playing the victim, is bordering on hilarious.
It is quite ironic that Rodriguez considers herself an advocate for women in Hollywood, specifically women of color. Rodriguez has offended and gaslighted black people on various occasions and it would serve her right to be clear about that in her apology.
Gina Rodriguez got promptly gathered by Black Twitter after she was seeing vigorously rapping the N-word while getting her makeup done in the video to the tune of the Fugees’ “Ready Or Not” track. After dropping an initial apology that came off weak to some, the Jane The Virgin actress followed up with an obviously prepared statement but Black Twitter is still shoving Rodriguez out the paint.
On Tuesday, Rodriguez was seen rapping Ms. Lauryn Hill’s “N*ggas give me heebie-jeebies” line from “Ready Or Not,” sparking a fit of outrage on Twitter. In her first apology posted to her Instagram story feed, Rodriguez said via video, “I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to the Fugees, to a song I love that I grew up on. I love Lauryn Hill.”
As the heat turned up on Rodiguez, she issued a lengthier written apology via Instagram.
“In song or in real life, the words that I spoke, should not have been spoken,” Rodriguez shared. “I grew up loving the Fugees and Lauryn Hill. I thoughtlessly sang along to the lyrics of a favorite song, and even worse, I posted it. The word I sang, carries with it a legacy of hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine. Whatever consequences I face for my actions today, none will be more hurtful than the personal remorse I feel.”
With her second apology ringing just as hollow as the first, Black Twitter has been sniping at away at the actress and doesn’t appear to be letting up anytime soon. Check out the responses, along with the apology, below.
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Questioning Black excellence was not the best career move for Gina Rodriguez. The actress experienced a lot of hurt when she was attacked for raising the question regarding equal pay.
This week the Jane The Virgin lead paid a visit to SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morningshow to promote her upcoming film Miss Bala. The discussion then turned to some commentary she made that got her in hot water last year.
In November 2018 Rodriguez took part in a Net-a-porter round table alongside Ellen Pompeo, Emma Roberts and Gabrielle Union. When discussing television she stated that Black women are noticeably paid higher than Latinas.
Naturally, the story caught fire online but instead of gracefully acknowledging how her words could be perceived the wrong way she bit back via her Twitter. SiriusXM host Sway Calloway got her to discuss the faux pas that caused her to be dragged to filth. “I always find it difficult to talk about equal pay as a woman who makes a substantial amount of money. As someone who came from poverty to now the amount of money that I get paid, it doesn’t feel right that I’m the one talking about it because I’m just so damn grateful” she explained.
Gina went on to further elaborate her stance. “To then be on a panel with women that I respect and admire and for us to talk about a subject that I find very difficult to talk about… what I was saying was that when we talk about equal pay, we have to talk about intersectionality because we all must rise.”
When discussing the backlash she received she became emotional citing the slander put her in a very weird space. “The Black community was the only community that I looked towards growing up. We didn’t have many Latino shows and the Black community made me feel like I was seen,” she admitted as she cried. “So to get anti-black is saying that I’m anti-family. My father is dark-skinned, he’s Afro-Latino and my cousins are and Puerto Ricans are African, Taino and Spaniard and it’s in blood, so that was really devastating to me.”
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Where things got even weirder for the Annihilation star is when she needed to defend her reputation but didn’t know exactly how to given the touchy situation. “What do you say? Sorry for cheating when you didn’t cheat? How do you talk to a bunch of people that all they do is read: ‘Gina Rodriguez Says Controversial Comments About Black Actresses.’
For those still unconvinced she offered to what seemed to be a sincere apology to those offended. “So, if I have hurt you, I am sorry and I will always be sorry, but you have to know that, until you know my heart, there’s no way that we can live off clickbait, you guys!”
You can view the interview in entirety below. The talk about the round table starts at the 12:00 minute mark.
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