There was a particular girl that went on a popular social media, and she was downplaying
me because of the color of my skin.
And her comments were, "Oh, I love Spice, everything but me just feel like Spice should
bleach and turn up her thing.”
I mean, in Jamaica, I think society makes them feel like you have to have a lighter
color to look better, or to get through society better.
Colorism has been swept under the rug.
In Jamaica, you may have a mother, two child, two different father, and if the child have
a dark complexion like the father, she will say, "You black like your papa", or "Nappy
head", or whatever.
So the child then leaves from there, and takes it to school, so they see another child with
a certain type of hair, which is real negro hair, and then call it picky picky head gyal
and they tease you.
So you have something with a girl, and quick to say, "Why did the black girl."
And they address you by the color.
I'm kinda one of the first artists to attack colorism.
But it was much needed conversation.
Everybody who knows Spice, Queen of Dancehall, always known for lewd lyrics, excitement song
burst of energy.
Get em something where they can dance and wine and bruck out to and go on with themselves.
That’s what they know Spice for.
Immediately I started out that way, to say it's not what you expect me to say.
Cause maybe they might expect me to say, "ski da da, bum bum, and ray".
Go on with myself.
People will just say to me, "Like Spice, yeah she the baddest ting, let us feel like should I reach
further, I'm going to feel it in my fight because she a color, she a black girl."
Let us feel like, lyrically I da baddest ting, her performance on stage, ya one of the baddest
ting, like, everything more on top of the game.
Everything that's happening with my record company and them holding me back and everything.
People just always talking about it.
But now I feel like if Spice than brown, should I reach further, or it's something that has
always been said to me.
I'm in love with my melanin.
I love who I am.
I wouldn't give it up or trade it for anyone else.
You say to somebody, "I don't like your hair.
I just don't like your hair."
And I just go and shave it all off and come back with a bald head and I say, "Are you
happy now?"
Are you fake, because you never expect her to really take the hair off.
That's society.
So make up your mind.
What do you want?
Society as a whole knows where it's come from and it's origin and it's racism.
But because it's so deep, racism was before my birth, I don't even want to dabble in to
it.
And just stray from the colorism to make it seem like I'm talking about racism and where
it stem from.
I just want my people to love themselves for who they are.
It was actually a line that was said from a girl on Facebook.
And that was her words that I used to put in the song.
And might I add that she also came back and apologized.
I can't even explain how hurtful it is for a black woman to tell a black woman that you're
black.
Like it doesn't even make sense to me.
A lot of people won't like this song, the Black Hypocrisy song, because reality is most
of them are guilty.
In Jamaica, if they say black, the word ugly come after.
So even if they curse.
They're gonna say black ugly-like.
That's the truth.
That's the plain fact.
They always use that line.
Black and ugly.
You're black and ugly.
What I wanted to do was create a shock value so that I could create awareness for colorism.
Because I wanted was to have the world's undivided attention.
I knew if I post the picture, I would have everybody's attention, and that's really what
I wanted.
So once I got everybody's attention, then I delivered my message through the song "Black
Hypocrisy."