Doja Cat seemingly had a racial reckoning as she dragged fans who compared her natural hair to “pubes” on the cover of her upcoming single, “Masc.”
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We’re used to Doja’s quirky humor and relentless trolling online, but she showed a more serious side last week. The Scarlet singer addressed the disrespectful comments about featuring her bleached blonde tight curls on the cover of “Masc,” which drops April 5.
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Doja clapped back at a “consistent pattern” of insulting her natural hair with a lot of racist stereotypes. ” The rapper was so “dead-a** serious” that she was “struggling deeply” with recording a video before asking fans to document it from her Instagram Live.
.@DojaCat talks about the recent comments about her hair via Instagram LIVE. pic.twitter.com/Wk62ivLvm2
— Doja HQ (@DojaHQs) March 30, 2024
“My hair, to describe it, it’s 4C hair texture,” she began. “I’m seeing a pattern. I’m seeing a consistent pattern in my comments section of people saying is my hair pubic hair, is it carpet or is it sheep’s wool. And it’s not even questions … some people are being like, that’s what it is,” she said.
“People comparing my hair to sheep and pubes and carpet and s**t like that… We gotta move forward. Let’s move forward. Let’s grow,” she said, while showing her own progress.
Doja Cat for TIME magazine on her 4C hair
“I love having my hair out, and seeing my little curls” pic.twitter.com/orhecHxgWT
— ☆ (@DojaArchives) March 30, 2024
Critics Blame Doja Cat’s Hair Backlash On Her History Of Rocking With Racists And Trolling Online
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Despite recently rocking a t-shirt featuring a “neo-Nazi” comedian, Doja Cat sounds fed up with the anti-Blackness. She shut down that “racial chat room” energy by turning off the comments for her album cover post.
Doja Cat & Candace Owens 🤝🏾 coming back to black folks after the racist community THEY wanted turns on them https://t.co/9PFMetga6w
— BLACK AND SUPER ✊🏿 (@BlackAndSuper) March 31, 2024
doja cat is a funny girl..pander to racists and now you offended people saying racist shit about your 4c hair….
— unknown (@enginevoid) March 30, 2024
Well her audience is mostly racist whites so what did she expect? Isn’t this what she wanted? 😂😂😂😂
— Palmetto Fairy 🧚🏾♀️ (@SunGoddessChel) March 31, 2024
Many critics quickly clocked that the hair hate is simply the fanbase she cultivated now taking out their bigoted BS on her like they do with other Black people. She seems conscious of this as she appears to resist explaining the oppressive history of mocking Black hair. Preaching that it’s inappropriate or controversial would only encourage her fellow trolls more.
“I can’t tell you what to do. I’m not your f**king parents. I don’t wanna say too much,” she said during her Live. “You guys got to get on that not comparing 4C texture to like… Pubic hair?” Really?!”
i feel like if doja cat is telling people that they shouldnt be comparing 4c to carpet, pubic hair and sheeps ass…. we shouldn’t be laughing at her about it??? are y’all slow?
— sweet honey ★ buckiin (@creolepatramua) March 31, 2024
The 28-year-old doesn’t even mind the having haters, just the blatantly negrophobic negativity. Some continued to blame the backlash on the company she kept in the past, but it’s deeper than Doja. That’s why we needed the CROWN Act!
Y’all don’t have to like Doja Cat but to not have emphathy for her being discriminated against because of her 4C hair is insane pic.twitter.com/bTNm37Rfg9
— Nosi 🐝 (@NosiphoL__) March 31, 2024
i Feeel like yes doja is a shit person but insinuating that this is okay because of the “people she surrounds herself with” is not okay! this is racism. hair discrimination is not limited to doja cat. it is something almost all black people, specifically black women, face. https://t.co/jmYWwmpb4F
— wylan .ᐟ (@hqlflost) March 31, 2024
Many of the singer’s non-Black associates and exes may think those Black hair jokes are funny. However, let’s not pretend countless memes and insults about Blue Ivy’s hair as a baby didn’t also come from Black people. Unfortunately, anti-Blackness is all around us, and members of any race can perpetuate it.
Today black people are acting like they have always just loved when black celebrities wear their natural 4c hair just to get one up on doja cat. News flash buddies. https://t.co/PzAz9h2Mz8
— please stop sending me peoples art to copy (@TheJaedeRoom) March 31, 2024
The reactions to doja cat wearing a wig vs her rocking her short 4c hair are ver telling. You guys couldn’t be more obvious. https://t.co/fB3FtXLI1d
— lmaooo (@hotbarbzfall01) March 25, 2024
Even a broken clock is right twice a day and Doja didn’t lie when she said it’s time to grow and move on. Hopefully, the unserious celeb breaking character to check those comments is a sign she’s doing the same.
You feel so safe being racist because you know for a fact that you’ll rot where you sleep for the rest of your life.
— DOJA CAT (@DojaCat) March 30, 2024
Several of Doja Cat’s fans took the message to heart and celebrated the beauty of her natural hair.
doja cat natural hair – a thread 🧵 pic.twitter.com/JZfFcy9amd
— COWBOY ★ lel (@lelclassy) March 30, 2024
.@Dojacat’s natural hair >>> pic.twitter.com/BFjXt2pRg2
— The Kittenz Club (@TheKittenzClub) March 31, 2024
Doja Cat’s natural hair has ALWAYS and will ALWAYS be beautiful. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/qE9MbPkVys
— Mathias 🩸 (@midnighthorrorz) March 30, 2024
Let’s all appreciate Doja Cat’s new growth!
