J Balvin Apologizes For Walking Black Women On Leashes In "Perra" Video
Qué Lástima: J Balvin Apologizes For Walking Black Women On Leashes In Controversial “Perra” Music Video
J Balvin has been at the receiving end of some serious backlash for weeks now, but after trying to ignore it for a while, he’s finally issued an apology.
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In September, J Balvin released a music video for his collaboration with Tokischa, “Perra.” The song’s title translates to “female dog” in Spanish, and the lyrics for the song are about just that, referring to dogs in heat, among other things.
Just last month, as “Perra” was released, the rapper did an interview with El Tiempo, where he said that he was inspired to get into reggaeton after finding out that Daddy Yankee was white, literally equating being white to being Latino.
“Because when I listened to Daddy Yankee, I thought he was Black, more or less like Tego Calderòn,” he said in Spanish. “When I saw a picture of Daddy Yankee for the first time, I said, ‘Ah, I can be like him!’ I saw that a path was opened, I saw that Yankee was white. A Latino! Like me.”
The rapper also pulled a Gina Rodriguez, not being able to resist bringing up Latinos during the Black Lives Matter conversations last year…even though *hint hint nudge nudge* Black Latinos exist. While he did post the Black Lives Matter hashtag, he followed that with #Latinolivesmattertoo and #Everylivesmatter in an Instagram post.
Hopefully, following this backlash, Balvin will work on all of the internalized colorism running through his veins.
