Looks like Alabama isn’t about to let y’all discourage her pending rap career.
Y’all are about to make Travis Barker go pa rum pum pum pum upside y’all head if you keep messing with his baby girl. Alabama Barker is hitting back at the appropriation accusations which emerged after she teased her upcoming rap music on social media. As the daughter of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler it’s not hard to believe that Alabama would be interested in breaking into the industry, but it’s her recent choices in looks and choice in rap music specifically that seems to have rubbed folks the wrong way… and now she’s addressing the backlash in a TikTok video.
In the clip, which has since been deleted, the 17-year-old said, “I’m tired of people saying I don’t know anything about rap music.” She then went on to share photos of her meeting hip-hop artists, like Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne…as… proof?
The socialite also shared a snap featuring her meeting Rihanna on the set of her music video for one of her hit songs. “I went to Rihanna’s music video when she shot the ‘Umbrella’ song, I believe – or one of her songs. So, another song I loved,” she explained. Alabama additionally shared a poster for the Blink-182 and Lil Wayne tour back in 2019. Other photos, meanwhile, saw Pharrell Williams and A$AP Ferg.
Alabama’s new post garnered mixed responses from Internet users. “Trying to understand the correlation about knowing rap music because she met different black artists? This American version of [Iggy Azalea] need to go on now. Stop cos playing black women,” one person said. “I’m sorry but it’s giving ‘my best friend is black’ she cute tho,” someone else added.
“She literally uses a blaccent and if y’all actually listen to the words, she’s saying random s**t to make things rhyme lol,” another naysayer wrote. “It’s not rap music it’s black culture but go off…,” one other noted.
Meanwhile, some others showed support for Alabama and her music career. “Her dad is a big dawg in music! I’m sure she was around all types of genres her whole life. Y’all dnt wanna give her a chance cause shes not black,” one pointed out, referring to the Blink-182 drummer. “im sorry but if it was a black girl wanting to do pop music these comments would be different,” another commented.
Personally, Alabama is 17 years old so I don’t think I’d be her target audience anyway. But do you think there’s anything wrong with her dabbling in rap? Peep the clip for yourself below:
