Doja Cat has addressed claims that she’s a “Satanist,” calling the narrative “annoying” and “tacky.”
Speaking to Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, the rapper and singer opened up about her polarizing public persona and alleged ties to Satan worship.
“I like the idea of: I did it on purpose and it’s this big ruse to make people react,” she stated. “But I also like the idea of: I love this piece of visual art, I like this visual for this sound.
“So I chose that visual and applied it to the sound and people made up what they [want], which is what you do with art. “You interpret it how you want to interpret it. Everybody has a right to interpret how they want.”
She continued: “But this whole very confident ‘Satanism’ thing is like — I’m sorry, when the fuck did I say that I was a Satanist? Or even go marching outside the church? When the fuck did I say that?
“It’s really tacky and annoying and discredits a lot of the hard work that I’ve put in.”
In the video for Doja Cat’s chart-topping hit “Paint the Town Red,” there are quite a few situations of Satan-related imagery akin to horned creatures and the Grim Reaper.
The Grammy-winner additionally lately made a portray of the satan which she confirmed off on-line.
Doja is hardly the primary rapper to make use of Satanic imagery in her work. Lil Nas X acquired comparable criticism for his “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” video, whereas older artists akin to Eminem, Three 6 Mafia and DMX have all toyed with comparable themes in songs and movies.
Terence “Punch” Henderson, co-president of Top Dawg Entertainment, lately known as out the pattern on social media: “The demonic influence is getting more and more blatant in this thing. The gradualism was numbing, now it’s just out loud.”
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Doja Cat has additionally acquired criticism for sporting a T-shirt that includes far-right comic Sam Hyde. She deleted the preliminary picture however then reposted it however with Hyde’s face cropped out.
Fans slammed her alternative of blouse, with one saying: “Why are you hiding your shirt? embarrassed that you’re wearing something with a nazi on it?”
Hyde is a comic who has alleged ties to the far proper and has been accused of being a neo-Nazi. He has pledged monetary help for Nazi web site Daily Stormer and has been concerned with quite a few mass capturing hoaxes.
