Dancehall star Spice has been the talk of social media for the last 24 hours after she uploaded promotional artwork for her new single.
Spice, real name Grace Hamilton, stunned fans when she deleted all of her Instagram pictures and uploaded a picture of herself with extremely lightened skin. The Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star, who is from Jamaica, wore a blonde weave and a full face of make-up in the post, captioning it: ‘Nothing wrong with a fresh start.’
Fans were shocked by her appearance with one person writing: ‘Spice whhhy???? please you were much more beautiful when you were Dark skinned’, while other argued that the image was Photoshopped.
However, Spice later shared a video in which she still had lightened skin and wrote: ‘Since the photo was photoshopped. How did i video shop this on snap chat?’
The singer addressed her new look during an Instagram live interview, explaining: ‘So I have a song called Black Hypocrisy, where basically… as a black woman, I’m mostly called black by my own race. I tried to please them, so I’m going to see what they have to say now. Because of them, I’ve changed my complexion a bit. I’m just pleasing them, they asked for it so I’m giving it to them.’
Thankfully, Spice has not lightened her skin – her new single Black Hypocrisy is about colorism and how it affects young people’s self-esteem and pressures them into skin-bleaching.
On the song, Spice sings: ‘I get hate from my own race, yes that’s a fact, because the same black people say I’m too black. ‘Since you say I’m too black for you, I please you, do I look how you want me to?’
Check out the video for ‘Black Hypocrisy’ below and let us know what you think? ISSA BOP OR ISSA FLOP? What do you think about her promotional tactic? Brilliant or too much?
