GloRilla Honored With Key To The City Of Memphis
GloRilla has been honored in her hometown of Memphis with a key to town – and she or he acquired it on the proper day.
Home to the 901 space code, Memphis celebrates ‘901 Day’ on September 1, which grew to become the day Big Glo acquired her key to Bluff City.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, rapper/songwriter Kia Shine and extra had been readily available to assist have fun the CMG rapper’s achievement.
Sharing pictures of the day to Instagram, Glo mentioned: “Memphis made me Frayser raised me [teary eyed emoji] I got da key to my cityyyyy ahhhhh [celebration emojis] Happy 901 day MEMPHIS!!!!!!”
In different information, GloRilla not too long ago dealt with a budding controversy by listening and responding to criticism — and received a ton of reward in return.
The Memphis spitter shared a tune snippet final week on social media, and her phrase alternative in it caught some followers abruptly.
“Ho, you must not know what you started/ Me and my bitch retarded,” it begins.
Some followers, a number of of whose responses had been caught by The Neighborhood Talk, had been disenchanted in Glo’s use of the r-word, calling it “offensive,” “derogatory,” and a “slur.”
By the time Big Glo shared one other teaser of the tune, through an on-the-grid Instagram put up, the offending phrase had been changed with the phrase “go naughty.” You can view it for your self right here.
Comments on the revamped lyric had been extraordinarily optimistic.
“I love how you changed the R word out the song. I wasn’t offended but that’s real,” one particular person wrote.
“Awwww she changed the lyrics just in case it did hurt someone’s feelings [clapping hands emoji] [praise hands emoji],” one other typed.
“Glad you changed it,” added a 3rd.
GloRilla additionally not too long ago addressed an ongoing narrative that she’s being sexualized by her label, CMG.
The “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” rapper shared a video on Thursday (August 29), refuting the claims and explaining why she’s enthusiastic about exhibiting off her physique.
She started: “Y’all had so much to say because I previewed an [inaudible] I was dancing to my song holding my titties. Don’t worry about what me and my titties doing. Bitch, I bought em … Talking about some shit like, ‘Oh, the label is making GloRilla do this. Bitch, the label ain’t make me do shit. A hoe gonna be a hoe.”
“It ain’t about no label trying to make me do shit. It’s about me looking for some hoes,” she concluded with amusing. “Y’all always thought, ‘They tryna oversexualize Glo like she was such a tomboy. Bitch, I was a tomboy when I had no titties. I got titties now.”