Tyga has learned his lesson: racism isn’t funny. The rapper apologized for his racist stereotyping on Power 106. “Ay Caramba”After facing backlash from Latinos (specifically Mexicans) about the stereotypes it depicts, video was removed. YouTube has since removed the video.
“I had no intentions to offend anybody,”American Cholo was harshly criticized by Tyga and encouraged violence on Tyga’s YouTube channel.
“If people are offended, I really apologize,”He concluded. “If I do a show, 50 percent of the crowd on the west coast is Mexican. If they’re hurt, I’m hurt.”
Tyga said he was overseas when the video came out and when the backlash started rolling in, so he wasn’t able to address the pushback immediately.
“I started seeing a lot of people offended on it, and I was kind of confused, so that’s why I didn’t respond,”He said. “I tried to do my research a little bit and tried to ask a lot of my friends that I grew up with that are Mexican… I was really kind of confused why are people offended because I’ve always done Latin records.”
Tyga used his song as a reference “Go Loko”YG, and how he got along with it. “pay homage”To his Mexican friends, he “grew up with”In that video. It was different this time.
“I’m not Mexican, so I can’t say what Mexicans are offended by and not, but I had no intention of offending anybody,” Tyga said. “I want to apologize to the Mexican community and my fans who are Mexicans.”
Tyga claimed that she understood the term “Ay caramba” isn’t “even Mexican”He also added that his character, named “Gordo”Fatty or bland “wasn’t even Mexican” either, saying he was instead inspired by Eddie Murphy’s The Nutty Professor character.
“It was never my intention that this character is a fat Mexican character. That’s why I was confused,” Tyga said, later adding, “It was meant to be a funny video but not meant to make fun of Mexican culture.”
Tyga has released the music video “Ay Caramba”In July. It featured the rapper in a fat suit and eating chips and guacamole as he watched a dance competition. He even had a fake Chicano accent, and was seen in a matador suit.
American Cholo, who accepted Tyga’s apology on Power 106, had said in a reaction video: “Imagine for a second, a white guy doing this to an African-American, or doing this song… They would be in the streets screaming. Fuck that, fuck Tyga.”
The Mexican writer who had previously criticized Tyga: I accept your apology. Let’s not let this happen again.