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I’ve grown wary of these light skin/dark skin debates. But since rapper Snoop Dogg decided to go there with yet another ignorant comment, I will go there with him. According to Hot 97’s Miss Info, Snoop Dogg said the following on women in rap:
“How many ugly women selling records? None! Only the pretty ones sell records. Beyonce, Mary J, Keyshia Cole, the ugly ones don’t sell. I ain’t gon say no names, but they don’t sell records. They just be singing their little hearts out, but they don’t get no sales, cause they ugly. Now, that’s my fault? I can see this on TV now: ‘Snoop Dogg called me, ugly.’ You beautiful on the inside, baby. What I wanna say to go on top of that, to the chocolate women, the dark-skinned women, I love ya’ll. I got a chocolate daughter at home. I always tell her chocolate is the best thing in the world….” (Source)
Please note that Snoop only mentioned the light skinned singers which he (and most of the industry) consider beautiful. Hopefully Snoop’s daughter Cori won’t aspire to be a singer since she won’t sell any records, according to her daddy.
All this issue does is serve to further divide and conquer our race when we should be creating dialogue that helps to build a bridge between the different inter-races within our African diaspora.