It hasn’t been long since Bhad Babie showcased her new hair that she was quickly taken down a notch with accusations of cultural appropriation for wearing braids.

She’s now heard the criticism and she isn’t exactly happy about it all.

A few days ago, she took to Instagram, where she fired back at “black females” who took objection to her box braids.

Bhad Babie

“To all the black females that are saying my hair [ain’t] meant for box Braids guess the fuck what y’all hair [ain’t] meant to be straight,” she wrote. “But y’all glue whole wigs on to your heads and sew brazilian/Indian/ Peruvian hair which is anything like y’all real hair texture.”

The rapper received a wave of backlash when she debuted her box braids recently. Certain social media users tried to explain to her that braids are often used as protective styles for black women and could be damaging to her hair.

Others felt like she has been appropriating black culture during her rise to stardom and getting box braid is yet another example.

Many tried to make it clear to the rapper and to her fans that there are unique struggles black women face when it comes to the vilification of their hair. Box braids are essentially, no questions asked, a form of cultural appropriation when used on white women. These social media users explained it best.

https://twitter.com/_cloutmya/status/1202114099401891846?s=20

Bhad Bhabie responded by trying to explain that her braids aren’t appropriating black culture because she didn’t “trash black women for wearing braids.” Yet, this only displayed that she doesn’t fully understand what appropriation means.

“I completely agree that it would b out of line and cultural appropriation if I was trashing black girls for wearing braids them getting them but that’s not the situation at all so leave me tf alone or imma start getting real disrespectful,” she said before adding another post aimed at those who are bothered by her hair.

Bhad Babie

“I love the way I look plus your man agrees,” Bhabie wrote. “we all know I look fine asf in any hairstyle I do from any culture because I’m that bitch. I hope you bald-headed hoes stay up all night thinking about this.”

The racial undertones in her response were too much for those who read it. They vented their anger by further dragging Bhabie on social media.

https://twitter.com/dedeeocean/status/1202097225784070145?s=20

She issued an apology… of sorts… on her Instagram which essentially was a call out to people to fight her. Typical Bhad Babie.

“I want to deeply apologise to everyone who’s life’s have seriously affected by the way I wear my hair and from the bottom of my heart I wanted to tell you to suck my dick,” she captioned a video of her braids. “(and yes apparently I guess I have really effected life’s I can’t figure out another reason why anyone would take time out of their day to write paragraphs and bully someone about hair) and btw whoever wanna come “pull em out” like they said ya got my location I [ain’t] hiding.”

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