Tyla Speaks On Breaking In America, Dance Inspiration, Kai
Cenat + More
Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, Jun 13, 2024 ]
AI-generated video summary:
Tyla joins The Breakfast Club for a candid conversation
about breaking into the American music scene. The interview delves into their
musical journey, influences, and navigating the challenges of international
stardom. Expect insightful discussion on the South African music scene and
cultural identity."
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of South African singer Tyla's July 2024 interview on The Breakfsst Club radio show.
This post also showcases a YouTube video of one of The Breakfast Club hosts (Jess Hilarious) commenting that following day on the clip of that interview that went viral- when Charlamagne tha God asked Tyla to explain the meaning of her Coloured identity in South Africa and Tyla's manager interjected that Tyla wouldn't answer that question. The auto-generated transcript of that particular clip of that video is included in this post along with Jess Hilarious' comments about that clip and its aftermath.
In addition, this pancocojams post presents some comments from two discussion threads about Tyla's Breakfast Club interview with a focus on the question that Charlamagne tha God asked about Tyla's identity as a South African Coloured.
The content of this post is presented for historical and socio-cultural purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks Tyla for her music and her role modeling. Thanks also to the hosts of The Breakfast Club and thanks to all those who are quoted in this pancocojams post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/03/some-discussion-thread-comments-from.html and https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2026/03/is-coloured-race-or-culture-in-southern.html for two 2026 pancocojams posts about southern Africans' comments about being Coloured and whether Coloured is a race or a culture or both.
Tyla is mentioned in several different comments that are included in those pancocojams posts.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE #1- THIS POST FOCUSES ON TYLA NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION ON THE BREAKFAST CLUB SHOW SBOUT HER COLOURED IDENTITY
On March 12, 2026 I published a pancocojams post on the subject of Tyla's July 2024 Breakfast Club interview, but inadvertently deleted it.
This post contains some of the same content and some different content from that was originally published pancocojams post. As is the case with this post, the original pancocojams post focused on Tyla not answering the question that Charlamagne tha god asked her about her Coloured identity as well as various YouTube discussion thread commenters' responses to the subject of South African Coloured identity.
However, prior to publishing another pancocojams post on that subject, I published a two part series whose links are given above about South Africans' comments about being identified as Coloured and/or whether "Coloured" is a race or a culture. I believe that in oder to better understand that subject it's important for people who aren't from southern Africa to read, hear, and learn about southern Africans r experiences, perspectives, and opinions regarding the Coloured referent as it has been used in their nations.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE #2
Some YouTube commenters who are quoted in this pancocojams post indicate or allude to Tyla's not answering the breakfast club question about her Coloured South African identity was an example of or (further) "proof" that she "rejects her blackness" or she doesn't not fully "acknowledge" her blackness". And as a result of those beliefs, these YouTube comments and many other YouTube comments suggest that a number of Black Americans believe that that Breakfast Club interview damaged Tyla's stardom and are happy about as they no longer care about that singer.
This pancocjams josts doesn't explore other possible reasons that have been cited or alluded to about why some Black Americans may be "hating on" Tyla. Two of those reasons are
1.that Tyla is a tether (a Black person who emigrated to the United States and profits from the struggles and accomplishments of native born Black people who have at least one ancestor who was enslaved in the United Sates
This position appears to be particularly held by many if not all the Black Americans who identify themselves as "FBA" (Foundational Black Americans) or who otherwise expose FBA positions.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/10/what-word-tether-means-to-foundational.html for the 2024 pancocojams post "What The Word "Tether" Means To Foundational Black Americans (FBAs)."
2. that Tyla is a singer who is an"industry plant" ("factory plant"), meaning an artist who suddenly rises to fame and receives awards over more deserving artists because of industry backing, Tyla not answering the question on The Breakfast Club about her South African Coloured identity and her manager/publicist who sat behind her voicing that Tyla wouldn't answer tha question further fueled this view that Tyla is a "factor plant" as has the subsequent artist awards that she has received since that Breakfast Club interview..
There are a number of online social media posts/comments and YouTube videos on this subject including the April 2024 YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMAhRv8OhnQ "The Suspicious Rise of Tyla (Industry Plant?)" and https://www.reddit.com/r/kpopnoir/comments/1dc1jz6/comment/l7uv42i/ "Am I the only one feeling this way about Tyla? [2024 discussion threqd in the kpopnoir reddit group."
Several comments in this pancocojams compilation allude to or specifically express sentiments positions that reflect one or both of these positions or theories. However, this theory isn't the focust of this pancocojams post.
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INFORMATION ABOUT TYLA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyla
"Tyla Laura Seethal, mononymously known as Tyla, (30 January
2002)[4] is a South African singer and songwriter. Her musical style is
characterised by a fusion of pop and amapiano...
Tyla Laura Seethal[5] was born in Edenvale on Gauteng's East
Rand.[6][7] The daughter of Sharleen and Sherwin Seethal,[8] she is Coloured
and has Indian, Indo-Mauritian, Zulu, and Irish ancestry.[9][10][11] She grew
up in Johannesburg,[1".
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Tyla Clears The Air After Dodging 'Colourism' Question On The Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, Jun 14, 2024 [host Jess Hilarious = Jess With The Mess]
"The Breakfast Club features celebrity interviews, Jess Hilarious' "Jess With The Mess", Charlamagne tha God’s "Donkey of the Day", DJ Envy’s mixes and so much more! Every guest visiting the world’s most dangerous morning show is grilled with their signature blend of honesty and humor. The results are the best interviews to be found on radio.
#Breakfast Club
AI-generated video summary
Tyla clarifies previous interview comments on The Breakfast Club. The discussion centers on a question about identity and race, initially unanswered due to team restrictions. This leads to a frank conversation about the complexities of racial classification across different regions."
EXCERPT OF THE AUTO-GENERATED TRANSCRIPT OF THIS VIDEO
Pancocojams Editor: This transcription includes my punctuation additions, and spelling corrections including the word "coloured" which is given as "colored" in that auto-transcript. I also added the name in brackets of who is speaking those particular words given in this transcript.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE-dQDrjjow
Transcript excerpt begins from ,056 to :
[Jess Hilarious] "The Breakfast Club ...time to set
it it all all right...So Tyla addresses her voloured identity.
Uh yesterday we had
an interview with South African Superstar Tyla. During the interview Charlamagne asked a question that her team didn't allow
her to answer. We have the audio:
[Charlamagne] "...School me on these debates
that they be having about your identity as a South African coloured person...What is that even mean? Can we ...
[Pancocojams Editor: Tyla looks back at her manager or publicist who interjects that Tyla wouldn't be answering that question.]
{Charlamagne] I like that.We keeping that in the interview too. Shut up! I like when they talk from the back and say we can't... I like that. I like
that. That's good... That's even better. Yeah.
[Jess Hilarious]Wow that clip started
to go viral.
Shortly after we add the interview um Tyla eventually decided to clear the air and shared a post to
our Instagram story. And she said "Yo guys [I] never [put down] my blackness. I don't know
where that came from. I'm mixed with black. Zulu .Irish. Jamaican, Indian, and coloured. in South Africa I would be classified as a colored woman. In other places I will be classified as a
black woman. Race is classified differently in different parts of the world."
[Jess Hilarious] I do
agree with that she also said "I don't expect to be identified as coloured outside
of South Africa by anyone not comfortable doing so because I understand the
weight of that word outside of South Africa. But to close this conversation, I'm both colored in South Africa and a black woman."
[Jess Hilarious] Yeah people were upset with
you know uh the questioning and and the fact that she didn't answer. But yeah
like I tell everybody the questions that we ask are from things that are out there. She did an interview a couple of years ago and people were asking about it and
asking about it. So, of course, when she came up here we had to ask her about it.
Now I don't understand why she
didn't answer that in the interview. That was confusing .Like, why just not say
that? And you doing press. You know what I'm saying.
So like her label or
manager or whoever you know just got to get her training. Because it's different
ways to pivot from what you don't want to answer correct um ...you know.. instead of just looking at somebody or having
somebody come from...
Cuz remember when Charlamagne did "Dunk you today" for the
dude on CNN? Like. yo, like you had
somebody wave you down in an
interview...Right to be like "Yo. No we ain't talking about that."
Then yeah. But it's it's pressed. Like you said you [a] Superstar. Yes, you know what they're going to ask you. You know
they're going to ask you some questions about your album. But you know they're
going to ask you about the BS too. And you got be able to answer those questions as well.
Yeah.So to come with like
a whole list like of 9 or 10 things that we can't talk about when that's really all like a lot of majority
of people were... like really!?.No .Exactly.That was a little crazy.
But.. um ..yeah I would have.. you know.. preferred that she said that.[what she sent to our Instagram story]. But just a little media training [will] get her right. She
be all righ"
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SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT TYLA'S JUNE 13, 2024 INTERVIEW ON THE BREAKFAST CLUB (with a focus on the question about her identifying as South African Coloured)
SOURCE #1
[This is the discussion thread for the video that is embedded at the top of this pancocojams post.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDZufXTXnU
2024
1. @danyagoosen6792
"I get why Tyla's team tried to avoid that question but as a coloured women from Cape Town South Africa I'm extremely disappointed that we have to shy away from "that question" when you in the west. We know the history of the word "colored' in the US but there is a world outside of the US and we need to educate those that dont know. I would love for the Breakfast Club to have this discussion."
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2. @Liahb
"As an African American I definitely would love to understand! You’re right!"
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3. @natashaweale
"I'm from Zimbabwe and I'm coloured and we are so proud that Tyla has shown the world that we exist @Liahb we have a history of our own"
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4. @wildearth3992
"@Liahb colored = multigenerational mixed like creole for example like Beyoncé mama or Steph curry"
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5. @razatiger22
"@wildearth3992 Yeah but Beyonce and Steph know what their roots are, they were both raised black. The question is deeper then just skin color which is why they ask, They know Tyla is mixed/Colored, they wanna know how she was raised."
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6. @user-ok5ez1ls1k
"@razatiger22 How she was raised? She was raised in South Africa, where there are completely different racial categories. Most black Americans will only be happy if she says she is black. But then South Africans will call bullsh-t* because there, she is not considered black, she is colored. Best to ignore the topic."
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*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
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7. @UNI-23
"@razatiger22 Beyoncé researches the areas she travels to and learns about the people there, out of respect for their customs, traditions, cultures, religions, laws, and history. This is a learning experience when in other areas."
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8. @lauren578
"@wildearth3992 Beyonce's mother is not mixed lol"
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9. @Ambassador2theworld
"@wildearth3992 No, that is not accurate. Coloured is a whole separate race in S. Africa. They are neither White nor Black."
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10. @see3deezz, 2025
"@wildearth3992 now why is that crazy or such a crazy thing to explain?"
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11. @KaylaPaige-v1r
"@Liahb hi, coloured people in south africa is more than a ethic group mixed people have been put in to be identified, it's a culture for example my mum is coloured and mixed for generations and coloured people have their own culture as to Trevor Noah for example is mixed race because his mum is black and his dad is white so he would have black culture and Swiss culture does that make any sense? We even have our own language which is Afrikaans, our own food, the way we raise our kids etc."
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12. @BSTVsports, 2025
"@KaylaPaige-v1r we don’t care… this is America pal. Why didn’t the colored people in SA buy her album? It’s an entire culture"
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13. @bevchepape1787
"Correct this was a perfect opportunity for Her to educate the masses … for me it was a simple question to answer"
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14. @Miz292
"@bevchepape1787 it's not a simple question to answer because Americans want her answer in a way that's platable to them on "their American platform" her explanation wouldn't be sufficient. Damned if you do damned if you don't. Leave her alone."
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15. @robertastokes9533
"@Miz292 Agree🤲🏾✨"
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16. @indumiso1
"What I love about this interview is that it shows how much Tyla is in tune with her body and that her barriers or boundaries are intact. She seemingly didn’t feel comfortable, so she held back but still kept classy. She didn’t compromise her privacy and boundaries to appease the hosts, or compromise her boundaries to get more likes, clicks, or public approval. A feminine Queen. We love you, mamas. ❤️"
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17. @gmvs62
"You think this is about privacy and not her business and money? Damn youre gullible."
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18. @indumiso1
"@gmvs62 who said I thought it wasn’t about business and money??? Why do you assume business, money, and privacy are mutually exclusive? And so what if it’s about business and money?"
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19. @sammiejo6557
"@indumiso1 that part! One of the same to me…"
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20. @GraceAndBlessings1906
"As a South African so proud of Tyla praying all the best for her may she continue to grow."
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21. @EnterGalactica
"Tyla handled this EXTREMELY UNPROFESSIONAL interview very well. Starting an interview off making your guest unnecessarily uncomfortable, and THEN not even asking any questions of true substance, just shows that they didn’t do ANY research on Tyla and just thought she was going to be another dumb, pretty, spineless pop girl… but she’s not.
And kudos to you Tyla. These ignorant spaces aren’t your demographic, AND THATS OK! You live and you learn. The Breakfast Club will hate themselves later for how they handled this interview, especially when Tyla refuses to ever come back."
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22. @DreDon-rs8ne, 2025
"As an Artist you have to have a hard shell and be able to carry yourself in interviews not dodging every question . This was a surface level interview"
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23. @adrianarnold1239, 2025
"She thinks that she runs stuff and they had to show her. Just like everybody. You got to be ready. You got to be ready. It's more than just singing baby"
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24. @ninacleveland, 2025
"Most everybody been on the Breakfast Club. And you sound different if you think for one moment these men are not educated on their craft and want they do for a living. If she don't come back the world won't stop."
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25. @jasmineroussell4441
"A lot of big artists don’t do this show"
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26. @charlesmarcus7864, 2025
"And yet you watched it and you’ll watch more so what are you crying about"
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27. @Mrslay-cc5nd, 2025
"That's y her album flop...dodging the hard questions..".
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28.@Skyy301
"@charlie4006 why? Possibly a difficult question.. sure, but a valid one. Fans and people in general have asked the same thing, so she could have easily just explained what coloured means in south African culture. I didn't think it was that serious"
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29. @charlie4006
"@Skyy301 Tyla is a new artist. To understand the racial hierarchy and structure in S. Africa, you have to learn its history and sociology. S. Africa has a unique and complicated history. Getting into conversations about race, racial identity, and politics is not the best conversation for Tyla right now. She's trying to get her career moving. Maybe down the road, she can explain it."
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30. @Skyy301
"@charlie4006 that's fair"
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31. @limofootball
"She's not American. Stop asking her to identify as a race in an american context. It just doesn't apply. Get over yourselves already. Not everything is about you."
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32. @bryanle2994
"Tyla did an amazing job at handling the questions and gossip in this interview. Very professional but light with her humor and expression. Even the nod to her label to address the question was a smart choice."
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33. @user-ok5ez1ls1k
"We do not need to have Tyla as the spokesperson for this topic. Let her get her career shaking. She barely started. One mistake talking about race and she’s canceled. Let’s let the professors and the race debaters deal with that. Maybe when she has a more solid career, she can discuss it on the correct platform. But a rookie interview at 22 years old after just broken into the global music scene is really not the time."
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34. @jlawrencewat
"She’ll be a clip now, lol. Tyla needs better media training but i’m happy the publicist was there."
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35.
"Whew … the publicist interjection"
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36. @charlie4006
"I'm glad she interjected"
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37. @Chuwks999, 2025
"Her team failed her by tryna tell Char what he can't say"
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38. @TheeChanel1212
"Ppl saying she’s uptight but can’t see thru Charla’s messy questions is crazy to me 😂.. she was so good at picking up the vibes, curved all of his antics, and consistently brought the focus back to the culture and positivity. Take notes!"
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39. @critiquekid200
"Tyla isn't black. Stop making her to be one. Let Tyla be herself."
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40. @SPADELE, 2026
"@critiquekid200, the thing is ppl just hold on to "black" like it's their whole identity even though race is not even scientific, i don't want to say African American and generalize but most that criticize tyla don't understand being black is different around the world, she is colored not black in south Africa and her identity stays with her where ever she goes and they just can't accept that fact.
Basically it's like wanting someone to change their name when they come to your country because ur culture doesn't align with their names".
41.
"@limofootball he didn’t tell her to. He simply asked can you explain the coloured race/hisorty. He wasn’t forcing her to fit in a category. Would have been a great moment to verbally state and be proud of the coulored community in SA"
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42. @LethalLeslie1
"@RosalíaLR that was the debate he was bringing up, she aint interested in all the race politics"
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43.
"@RosalíaLR first of its a debate because people are debating it flat out. we dont get to decide what people debate on. Its to Tylas annoyance that its become a big debate.
and secondly both sides agreed to the terms of the interview or it wouldnt of happened. its good business for both sides obs but she doesn't wanna be involved in the race side of it and I rate that. Its about the talent not the shade of her skin.
I do agree tho that she would of been fine to back her stance on her own race 'coloured' being the part triggering people but clearly she just cba with that being her shtick"
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44. @RosalíaLR
"@limofootball this isn’t just an American concept. In the carribean people of mixed decent many times identify as black. Take Bon Marley for example.. he was mixed indeigenius West Indian, black , and half white. He was born and raised in Jamaica and I never hear carribean referring to him as anything other than black. I’m tired of the narrative that it’s only black Americans that have this viewpoint in being mixed and black. It’s most of the world"
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45. @samkelomthiyane8359
"We Love you Tyla. We’re super proud of you sweetie🇿🇦❤️"
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46.@Girlsoulaan
"She was not ready for this type of interview…….like not everyone can be interviewed by them."
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47. @VirgosGroove3
"I think because she’s young and not from America so some of the jokes weren’t landing right."
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48. @AssiduousHFTT
"@VirgosGroove3 I'm from America and saw no jokes but cringe"
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49. @yaisaadcock9269
"This! ☝️ He was lowkey picking on her"
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50. @vonamel_music
"She handled herself well"
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51. @CharChar-U
"LOLLLL He said he knows South Africa, but he needs someone to explain to him what Coloured means 🤣🤣🤣. YHO! I'm dead."
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52.
"You do realize that they ask for the sake of the audience, right?"
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53. @SparkleInYourEyes2024
"He was being messy."
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54. @vallivergano239
"Right? Like he mentioned Trevor in the beginning and the book Born a Crime, so you'd think he'd have known? Weird"
2025
55. @adenphilipwhite
"So I'm African American born in NYC what is Africa's meaning of coulored"
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56. @aureliusleslie173
"Im absolutely here to see the lesson that was to be.😂😂😂"
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57.
"@aureliusleslie173 that’s what I came here for. I had never seen this interview
until they started talking about her EP and her stating that she’s not black on
TikTok.😭"
SOURCE #2
Tyla’s AWKWARD Encounter With Charlamagne😳
https://youtube.com/shorts/d-ro2m4BnpA?si=7D-ZW @GalvaniseGlobal,
January 28, 2025@GalvaniseGlobal
[This is a YouTube video short of Charlamagne Tha God asking Tyla about her identifying as Coloured in South Africa and Tyla turning to her manager/publicist who indicated that Tyla wouldn't be answering that question. ]
COMMENTS:
2025
1. @PierreStGermain
"I don’t have any problem with Charlemagne asking her that
question. She said that she was not black, what is wrong with asking her to
explain that?"
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2. @seekinghimdaily92, 2026
"There was NOTHING wrong with that question…this moment was
not a good look for her. 🤦🏾♀️"
3.
"And just like that, Tylas career is destroyed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"
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4.
"Knowing how Tyla was being attacked by Americans the last
time she tried to explain her ethnicity, this man was trying to be messy and to
start drama. Tyla was very smart to keep quiet"
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5. @lucindacoleman646
"There goes her career."
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6. @JellieJoShmo, 2026
"It's not going anywhere. Black Americans
aren't the center of the world. She has fans around the world that aren't
triggered by the word "colored" & don't expect people to change
their speech for them specifically.
It's not her job to educate him. He has
access to the internet tf lol"
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7. @gregorylevi1826
"That's his job to ask rough questions. If I was her handler
I wouldn't have chosen this show to go on."
8.
"Don’t come from other countries saying you black when you
get here"
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9. @kaylinmarston2679
"@TherealBabayega that's the gag, she never claimed to be black😅"
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10. @TherealBabayega
"@kaylinmarston2679 yes she did"
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11. @kaylinmarston2679
"@TherealBabayega when? Where? 😐 Please show me so I can
understand where all the hate for this girl is coming from"
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12. @keriBeeLow
"@TherealBabayega She never did dear that's why this
interview is happening in the first place, it's coz they want to force her to
be black when she's not though. In SA where I stay no black person is mixed
race. Mixed races are coloured and they accept themselves that way can you
accept her reality as being different from yourself please it's not even about
you Americans the poor girl is forced to accept what she's not."
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13. @stardustshowing
"This wasn't a smart choice at all"
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14. @GoGetYourShinebox
"She did what her handlers told her to do 😂"
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15. @biinygieta2664
"It’s stupid why would you say you are colored instead of
saying you are mixed race 😂 when you are asked are
you black say you are mixed and not colored that’s an insult and plus blacks
have you their platform to even win that award came from them. They let you win
award over Davido and the rest which you are not even doing any better than
them any way you just stole your way up there because of black Americans. I
heard her song once in Ghana 🇬🇭 when I went to
the club but I hear Davido’s song everywhere"
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16. @btgang4463, 2026
" @TherealBabayega now m confused they hate her because she
said she's coloured or that she's black now m definitely confused ya'll be
saying different sh-t*"
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*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
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17. @KaylaT-v5c
"Lmaoooo that’s why her career damn near over now"
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18. @Saintsrow1824
"Damn near over where? America isn’t the entire world"
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19. @francinahletsoalo2697, 2026
"I'm here after 4 months and her career hasn't flopped"
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20. @MsYellow83
"He wasn't wrong. It's a simple question"
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21. @gregorylevi1826
"Exactly. She's having A hard time with that it's only going
to get harder."
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22. @Prettypinkink
"His wrong because knowing how much controversy it's going to
cause , because like why does she need to explain her race as a South African
coloured person , in south African that is an actual race , it's the same as
black and white and indian"
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23. @gregorylevi1826
"@Prettypinkink no
it's not the same in U.S.A."
24.
"@gregorylevi1826 that's understandable , it's not like she
called anyone who is from the U.S coloured she is calling herself coloured
because that's where she has from . I can understand if she called an American
coloured , that is offensive then again she identified herself as coloured"
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25. @richlisola1
"@gregorylevi1826 It’s the same in the sense, as it’s an
official category in SA
.
Just as the US has categories"
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"SA"= the nation of South Africa
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26.
"@Prettypinkink and she never would call an American coloured
because unless they were a person from the Southern Africa coloured community
who immigrated to the united states they would not be what is termed coloured
in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. It’s a community and a culture
defined by a shared culture and history, NOT by colour."
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27.
"@richlisola1 okay
but she's not in South Africa anymore. She's in U.S.A. which as you stated has
it's own category. When In Rome Act Like The Romans."
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28.@bfrancois37
"He was asking to be educated... I don't see anything wrong with that."
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29.
"Exactly"
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30. @AshleighDanburry
"He spoke to Trevor Noah... he knows"
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31. @nanciatnyte
" @AshleighDanburry so do you think he interviews for his OWN personal benefit or for the public/his audience😅"
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32. @xayytoldemm
" @nanciatnyte Her team specifically asked CTG not to bring this up, he went against their wishes and he knew exactly what he was doing"
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33. @keriBeeLow
"Child i think we both know there was no education intended here, with his tone he was looking for a fight and im glad she didn't fall for his trap. Its obvious that this question was not included in the preparations of the interview. She was targeted here and he wanted to humiliate her."
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34. @drye1972
"@keriBeeLow I kept hearing about this interview because I don’t know the full story behind her response. Now that I have seen this. I hate I cant get my 2 seconds of life bike waisted on this MESS. Tyla did nothing wrong. She followed the instructions of her manager, and now US!!!! Black Americans, seems mostly the ones that don’t want to be considered African are crucifying this young artist. All I will say is, the ones that wanted to prove their point, proved it. She feels the rejection, but the sad part is, she is only rejected here."
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35. @fosev47, 2026
"@drye1972 it wasn't a hard question she not from here and have a different experience it's not his fault they can't explain what she is 😂😂😂"
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36. @nanciatnyte
"@keriBeeLow so no one bought her music bc of Charlemagne?"
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37. @xayytoldemm
"@nanciatnyte no one bought it because there was no promotion and tbf who even buys albums anymore"
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38. @TheHasa13
"@keriBeeLow lol ok so no one can get asked anything in an interview that they werent prepared for anymore. Might as well give them each two scripts and be a play, not an interview."
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39. @CJMedia101, 2026
"@TheHasa13 the whole point of the interview had nothing to do with his questions so you just sound ignorant if you're gonna pretend to know how an interview works😅"
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40. @dorothyterry6754
"@keriBeeLow She should have known what kind of show he ran and came prepared."
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41. @d.a.o.5684, 2026
"Thank you @keriBeeLow . SA and the race definitions exist for sooo long. Just like the race types of black, white, other
Hispanic and so on in the US. all the categories sound strange if you don't use them yourself.
In Germany the term race itself is racist"
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42. @rtut8169
"Agreed! But it's so MANY ppl that are ignorant . If she had answered ppl would have found a reason to be mad especially with how Americans are easily triggered when it comes to race. Americans r racist but what's woese is black Americans are racist to their on ppl; they have a race war within their on race. There really was no right answer. No matter what she said ppl would have been trying to cancel her."
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43. @quay91white70, 2026
"@rtut8169 i agree but us black Americans are very understanding we just tired of people coming here disrespecting us everything is not about foreigners either but we live in America they love these immigrants black Americans get nothing compared to them so I see why they call us lazy because they get government help."
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44.
"@rtut8169 You literally have no idea what you're talking about."
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45. @rtut8169, 2026
"@Jay-v4l2m Obviously I wrote it. So I understand my comment clearly. Just because you do not understand what I'm talking about does not mean I don't know what I'm talking about. 🤔🤷🏽"♀
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46.@Val0riex_
"That is where you got it wrong. it's NOT a simple question, and as a South African I know that. That question stems back to apartheid and honestly for people to sit here and think it's ok to demand answers from HER when you can properly educate yourself with available sources goes to show that it was never about learning about tylas culture, but projecting your own onto her."
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47. @BigReen11
"This is so weird of Tyla to do it’s like she’s a puppet…"
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48. @yungSal1217
"She didn’t even begin to think to answer that our own she
went directly to her agency… and that’s exactly why her Album only sold 4000
copies over😂😂😂 crazy, beautiful but poor
judgment when it comes to public relations, will it be her decision or her
agency?"
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49. @quamb
"He's stirring sh-t * up for views and clips like this.
Her identity and history is her own business."
-snip-
*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
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50. @Stephon_Lamont, 2026
"And she wasn’t wrong either…
no one is obligated to explain themselves to the public.
Choosing not to respond is also a valid choice. She had the right to answer how
she wanted or not at all and that doesn’t mean she did anything wrong."
51.
"She should have answered that question and fired her PR team😑"
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52. @Silencer242
"Yep, but they did give him a list of things not to ask her
but he asked anyway, she did in some other interview or probably even when she
originally made the colorism statement, explain that that is what mixed raced
people were identified in her country and if I'm correct she was in Africa when
she made this post that people dug up and got offended by, so when she was
signed after and came to the US this is what she faced trying not to get into a
debate about it."
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53. @kingsaw5282, 2026
"Chat GPT would clear it up in 10 seconds."
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54. @xayytoldemm
"@dorothyterry6754 her
team asked CTG not to bring this in interview tho, he did it anyways"
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55.
"@xayytoldemm this interview always ask questions two times
or it doesn't matter if you like it or not"
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56.
"@saintkayleepain There are NO off limits questions in an
interview! The person being interviewed has to prepare how they are going to
answer!"
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57. @calvin394
"@OriginalCyprian
Explained to who? When? Where? America
is a large country with many regions.
Does everyone hear the same answer at the same time? Of course not. She must be prepared to answer all questions
as any professional would be. Its not
hard."
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58. @cairo1077
"@OriginalCyprian yea
he pretty much baited her in that and tanked her career before it even started"
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59. @vincentdouglas744
"She could have answered it but didn't want to jeopardize
sales and her relationship with the government in SA"
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60.
"No he tf wasn’t, Charlemagne is the ultimate troll, he knew
what he was doing and why he was doing it 😂"
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61.
"He was not he hit the hornets nest. She is from a different
country culture and identity not of her own creation."
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62.
"No, he has MANY friends in South Africa. He is very well
aware and knowledgeable on what it means to be colored in South Africa. Here's
the thing... He's friends with MacG, a South African podcaster who HATES Tyla,
so his motives and intentions were not pure at all. Also, let's say he didn't
know (hypothetically), for the sake of your argument. He's a grown ass man. He
had his whole life to live outside his bubble and learn about colored south
africans. By your logic, him asking that question shows that he's uneducated
then."
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63.
"@Louskii5 CTG was asked not to bring this up prior to the interview"
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64.
"@xayytoldemm it’s his job to"
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65. @xayytoldemm
"@Louskii5 all celebrities have a “do not ask” list and he asked anyways even tho he was specifically asked not to prior to this interview
The fact that he brought the topic up is on HIM. If you want to know about her ethnicity so bad, you can look it up. It’s something she’s been very vocal about for a long time"
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66.@MAAT33G
"@xayytoldemm
"We would rather hear it from horse mouth"
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67. @xayytoldemm
"@MAAT33G well good things she’s spoken about it a million times already"
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68.@MrHowse-rt5bo
"@keriBeeLow Well, she need to
go “sing” be “a musician” somewhere else, cause we hold our Artists accountable
on this side. Y’all allow that; we are NOT the same. If she answered the
question “a million times” she should’ve been bold enough to say that, or make
it a million and one."
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69. @Theaiprojectisalive
"@OriginalCyprian she could have cleaned it up. This was the perfect opportunity to do just that and she did the opposite. A grown mfer needing permission on how to answer a question about who they are is just crazy"
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70. @dorothyterry6754
"@OriginalCyprian It may be tedious, but professional entertainers, celebrities, athletes and politicians know that repetition is key to getting your word out. Charlemagne's audience may not have heard of any earlier explanations or even know who she was. Don't assume."
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71. @jeremywallace5958
"It’s hard to tell with him. He is a bit messy at times. We
all know this too!!!"
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72. @Joliefleur1, 2026
"No he wasn’t. He was instigating."
73.
"You know what?She could have said she A colored person is a
person of mixed race. Just like you have here in America biracial people. We
call them colored."
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74. @AnAdorableWombat1
"He can google it! He googles everything else.!"
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75. @nanciatnyte
"@AnAdorableWombat1
that’s not how interviews work though"
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76.
"@AnAdorableWombat1
Don’t you know he’s asking for a live audience?
That’s his job."
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77. @quay91white70
"All she had to do is answer everybody is except it in
America just it a culture for my country we are coloured simple but it's
America some y'all don't know history not being messy tyla should know that I
thought 🤔 other countries had early and better
education system."
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78. @xayytoldemm
"@quay91white70 Tyla
does know that. Her answer is rooted in culture and history and it’s more than
just “where are you from”. That’s why her team specifically asked him not to
bring this up in interview- and he knew what he was doing when he went against their wishes."
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79. @angel-jq5di, 2026
"@quay91white70 she
does and she's explained it various times but people never understand"
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80. @luckym5198
"In South Africa, that's
her reality that's her lived experience. That's what she's ever been
called and told. However, outside Siuth Africa, she is a black African or mixed
race, it's not her choosing to be coloured, the different between her and
Trevor, though he is also mixed, his
parents raised him black, he is more in touch with his black side of the family
and black culture because he was raised by his black side of the family,"
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81. @sj340, 2026
"@luckym5198 nope. She
was raised coloured, it is an actual cultural group in South Africa, with their
own dialect, food culture and general culture. Research the culture of the cape
flats, the passion gap, Koesisters, Cape Malay cooking, Kaapse Klopse, District
6 etc. etc. I really wonder what Americans are gonna do when they hear about
the Rehobot Bastards. Black in Africa means having your own Language and tribe,
like Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana, Shona, Herero, Massai...."
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82. @JellieJoShmo, 2026
"It's not her job to educate him. He has access to the
internet tf lol
It's a stupid question. Charlamagne could have LOOKED IT UP lmao that's what professional journalists/interviewers do. And, Tyla isn't an American artist, she's global. She doesn't have to represent herself in a way that feels comfortable or "appropriate" to Black Americans.
The word "colored" has a specific definition in South Africa that can 100% be looked up online. It has a different definition in America, which clearly bothers Charlamagne. He's just lazy. Tyla doesn't need to explain the history of apartheid South Africa to anyone, she's an artist, not a historian or politician."
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83. @LisaSimpsonRules, 2026
"@JellieJoShmo My
point is that it looks weird for an adult to look back asking for permission to
talk. She could just say: To me this means or In South Africa we call.."
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84. @vintagecherries
"It' was a simple question. She made it ten times worse by
not answering"
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85. @terryjoho
"Not having this conversation is why her new EP only sold
3.7k 🤷🏽♂️"
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86. @kennygreen1081
"She doesn't realize who buys her stuff"
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87.
"Her non-answer left the answer up to our interpretation and we didn't like what her silence meant"
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88.@kylecruel
"That's the moment when her people failed her. Even if she don't want to answer his question, they at least should have had a response prepared so she didn't make the situation worse."
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89. @okahebuka8647
"He gave her an opportunity to clear the air. Instead she makes it worse"
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90. @JellieJoShmo, 2026
"Nope. Black Americans aren't her only audience. They're the
only ones who are triggered by the word "colored."
It's not her job to educate him. He has access to the internet tf lol
Charlamagne could have LOOKED IT UP lmao that's what professional journalists/interviewers do. And, Tyla isn't an American artist, she's global. She doesn't have to represent herself in a way that feels comfortable or "appropriate" to Black Americans.
The word "colored" has a specific definition in South Africa that can 100% be looked up online. It has a different definition in America, which clearly bothers Charlamagne. He's just lazy. Tyla doesn't need to explain the history of apartheid South Africa to anyone, she's an artist, not a historian or politician.
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91. @terryjoho, 2026
"@JellieJoShmo Bruh
her career over and been over. Move on 😂"
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92. @HeadCubicleFishInCharge, 2026
"Her global audience says otherwise. There are other
countries besides the US."
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93.
"You sure about that? This girl is still thriving. Your
cancellations unfortunately did not work 😂"
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94. @major7100, 2026
"@lelo8244 😂
Ty just scooped her 2nd grammy, her haters are having a terrible year."
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95. @fracturedsolace145
"I'm here after her album flopped."
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96. @4000Wiggins
"She has 31 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. That’s one platform. I think she’ll be ok."
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97. @gregorylevi1826
"Unfortunately her not wanting to talk about it is why her career is slumping here in U.S.A."
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98.
" @gregorylevi1826 Oh
honey, her careers doing well. She’s literally a two times Grammy winner 🥰🥳"
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99. @drewsampson2743
"Oh man. This went Viral for the wrong reasons for her. Pay attention kids, this is how to ruin your career."
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100. @brandonjohnson5205, 2026
"I wish they would have shown the facial expressions of the
publicists when he said they keeping that in the interview
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