The 'Baby Got Back' hitmaker comes to the actress' defense in the controversy surrounding her 'L.A. face with an Oakland booty' joke.
- May 21, 2016
AceShowbiz - Sir Mix-a-Lot broke his silence on the controversy surrounding Blake Lively's "L.A. face with an Oakland booty" joke on Instagram. The "Baby Got Back" hitmaker defended the pregnant actress against critics who accused her of being racially insensitive.
"For her to look at her butt and that little waist and to say, 'L.A. face with an Oakland booty' doesn't that mean that the norm has changed, that the beautiful people have accepted our idea of beautiful? That's the way I took it," he said in an interview with Pret-a-Reporter.
"Now let me do this, as far as the critics are concerned: I don't want to come off like, 'Oh, he's an Uncle Tom,' because I'm not. If what Blake Lively meant by that comment was, 'Oh my goodness, I've gained weight, I look horrible,' if that's what she meant - and I doubt that she did - then I'm with the critics," he continued. "But no one in the world is gonna tell me that a woman that wears that dress is thinking that she's fat. No, I'm sorry, it just doesn't happen. It sounds like to me like she was giving the line props."
The rapper added, "I think she's saying, 'I've got that Oakland booty,' or 'I'm trying to get it.' I think we have to be careful what we wish for as African-Americans, because if you say she doesn't have the right to say that, then how do you expect her at the same time to embrace your beauty? I mean, I don't get it. I think it's almost a nod of approval, and that was what I wanted. I wanted our idea of beautiful to be accepted."
"I think now not only is it accepted, but it's expected," he went on. "That's my thing. I'm not telling people what they can like and not like. That song was written with African-American women in mind, but trust me when I tell you that there are women out there with those curves everywhere, and they were once considered fat. And that's what the song was about. It wasn't about some race battle."
