Ladi6

If you participate, you are hip hop.

That was my understanding.

That's how I grew up in hip hop.

And that's how I've always seen it.

And I always knew, like, some of my mentors were of all different ethnicities.

They were, like, cotton candy, who, like, they're all American.

Yes, probably, most likely.

And then there was my New Zealand ones as well that I had that were mentors.

And so I knew that it was, like, broadly diverse in ethnicity.

I didn't necessarily see it as just a specifically black thing.

That got me in so much trouble.

I didn't say that.

What I said was hip hop is for everybody.

That's what I said.

Very simple.

And I got cancelled online for not specifying that in fact it was a black made idea.

And when I thought about it, I sat with that, and when I thought about it, and it blew up.

It was just like, who does this woman think she is?

Somebody took – the Samoan guy, actually, which was the most crack-up thing, who's based – he's a reporter who's based over in the States.

He was the one that took this little clip of me saying that line and spread it all over Twitter at the time when it was Twitter.