Entertainment : Doja Cat Was Almost Canceled Over This Revelation

 

The “Streets” hitmaker made headlines for all the wrong reasons when a series of old video clips emerged.

While Doja Cat may have been over the moon after learning that her song Say So featuring Nicki Minaj had earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2020, things quickly went downhill for the rapper-singer for her alleged “racist” past.

The “Streets” hitmaker also made headlines that very same month after a series of old video clips emerged, which heard Doja using homophobic and racist slurs that were sure to leave her fans upset.

It was reported that the RCA-signed superstar engaged in alleged racist chat rooms, where she made questionable comments about people of color, leading the hashtag #DojaCatIsOverParty to trend soon after several social media blogs shed light on the story on their page.

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In May 2020, several videos were posted of Doja Cat listening and sharing racist jokes in group chats, but the clips weren’t believed to have been recent.

One Twitter user, however, begged to differ, saying that at least one of the videos, which is said to have shown Doja “on a chat room with alt-right white supremacists” was recorded only 6 days ago, heavily insinuating that Doja was still engaging in the not-so-nice behavior online.

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What’s interesting is that, in December 2019, Doja had actually admitted to being a big fan of online chat rooms, adding that she was still a frequent user on such platforms.

"People would pick on me and use horrible, horrible language, just the worst, and I just didn't understand why people were so crazy on there," she told Paper, before going on to add that she decided to stay on the chatrooms and would join in with her own “offensive jokes.”

To make matters worse, fans uncovered a song that Doja had uploaded to her official SoundCloud back in November 2015, titled “Dindu Nuffin.”

According to The Source, the song’s name “seems to be a stylized pronunciation of ‘didn’t do nothing,’” which is meant to mock people of color who died as a result of police brutality. Doja certainly couldn’t catch a break from her scandal since the outrage over the track came the same month George Floyd was murdered as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine minutes.

 

People were outraged by Doja’s past and were quick to say that the singer didn’t deserve her No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, nor did they feel the need to support her anymore — particularly since a huge amount of Doja’s fans happen to be people of color.

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The 25-year-old issued a statement before the month’s end, stressing, “I’ve used public chat rooms to socialize since I was a child. I shouldn’t have been on some of those chat room sites, but I personally have never been involved in any racist conversations. I’m sorry to everyone that I offended.”

Doja also touched on the controversial 2015, to which she said, “As for the old song that’s resurfaced, it was in no way tied to anything outside of my own personal experience,” she wrote. “I made an attempt to flip its meaning, but recognize that it was a bad decision to use the term in my music.”