Though Latto formally modified her identify earlier this yr, she’s nonetheless fielding questions on her unique sobriquet, Mulatto.
She responded to the newest inquiry on Twitter when a person requested, “Hey what’s Latto quick for? @Latto.”
“Y’all not over this but?” Latto responded. “I’ve apologized for it a number of instances even tho I didn’t identify myself at 8yo. I took the blame/accountability, turned over a brand new leaf & made sum constructive of it.. all whereas sustaining my emblems, LLCs and many others w/o branching too far off my established model.”
The Queen of Da Souf rapper modified her identify from Mulatto to Latto as a result of moniker’s adverse origins as an offensive time period to explain mixed-race folks.
“You understand, you would possibly know your intentions, however these are strangers who don’t know you, by no means even met you in individual,” she mentioned in Could. “So that you gotta hear one another out, and if you realize these aren’t your intentions and that’s the way it’s being perceived, it’s like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the identify. So now I’m like, ‘OK, my intentions was to by no means glorify being mulatto.’”
She later confirmed the change with a video teasing her tune “The Largest,” which included a fake Google seek for the definition of Latto: “Quick for the lottery. Fully separate from Mulatto, represents a brand new chapter, success, spiritually & financially. Sometimes called Massive Latto, the alter ego.”
The artist has needed to tackle the scenario a number of instances, even dropping a freestyle video the opposite day aimed toward her haters.
