Rapper Mulatto Seems to Changes Her Name to ‘Latto’ After Years of Backlash
Rapper Mulatto name has seem to change on streaming platforms Apple Music and Spotify. Although she hasn’t made offical annoucment regrading the name it seems the rapper is now going under the name “Latto.”
During her career she has received backlash concerning her name. Some have believed her name is promoting colorism.
The emcee who identifies as biracial has gotten criticism from people who deemed her name as offensive. During a interview on the “Big Facts” podcast earlier this year, Latto, whose real name is Alyssa Michelle Stephens, alleged she wasn’t aware of the phrase racist roots.
“They take ‘Mulatto’ as me thinking that’s like a personality trait. I wake up and be like, ‘I’m mixed. Before I even brush my teeth, I be like, ‘B-tch, I’m mixed.’ And they take [it] as that, and that’s not what that means’” she said.
However, Latto noted that she’d be “careless” to not consider sound advice. She told blog site Female Rap Room that there would be a name change, however, it wouldn’t come without a proper rollout. “It’s something that needs to be a bigger production,” she explained. “I need to be able to speak on it, and people hear me out. I wanted to do it deeper than a tweet like, ‘Oh. I’m changing my name,’ end of story. I feel like that’s not sensitive enough to the subject matter.”
In the meantime, others felt changing her name to just “Latto” didn’t suffice, including one social media user who wrote, “Y’all bullied Mulatto into changing her name to Big Latto But the ‘Latto’ in ‘Big Latto’ still stands for ‘Mulatto’… but y’all happy as hell bc the “Mu” is gone…” They added, “Y’all MFs love performative ass progress, especially when it comes with a side of humbling a Black women.”
Y’all bullied Mulatto into changing her name to Big Latto
But the “Latto” in “Big Latto” still stands for “Mulatto”…
but y’all happy as hell bc
the “Mu” is gone…Y’all MFs love performative ass progress, especially when it comes with a side of humbling a Black women
— The Bruton Bazaar Star ⭐️ (@JeffersonJetson) May 12, 2021