Blake Lively is a beautiful young Hollywood actress and new mother. She’s also very shapely – in the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian – she’s got an ample behind.
Lively recently graced the red carpet at Cannes wearing a tight dress and later posted on social media a photo with the caption, “L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” because…well…it was a picture of her backside in the curve hugging dress. And all hell broke loose on social media. Why? Because many thought it was RACIST.
Apparently a white actress with a nice bottom can’t use a lyric line in one of the most famous songs about…butts, Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.”
Sir Mix-A-Lot himself commented on the big booty scandal. After all, if anyone should comment on such a subject, it’s a guy who “likes big butts and he cannot lie…”, a “connoisseur of big butts.” He says he was surprised about the attention Lively got since singer Katy Perry and one of the Kardashian clan did the same thing. The song came out during a time when “heroin chic” was in – models who looked like they were doped up and starved half to death, and Mix-A-Lot wanted to bring attention to another kind of beauty, he explains:
That song was written with African-American women in mind, but trust me, there are white women with those curves everywhere, and they were once considered fat. And that's what the song was about. It wasn't about some race battle…Now at the same time, what was promoted as beautiful was kind of really waif-thin, borderline heroin addicts…. That was kind of pushed at us, and we were told that it was beautiful… So I wrote "Baby Got Back," not to say which race is prettier — which is silly, because there were white women with the same curves that were told that they were fat, too.
Breaking down the lyric Lively used that created all the attention, he added:
What I meant by "L.A." was Hollywood. In other words, makeup or whatever it took to make that face look good, they do it in L.A. But, as much as you can throw makeup on something, you can't make up the butt. That's what L.A. face and Oakland booty meant. You can put makeup on that face and make it look beautiful, but a butt is a butt, a body is a body.
For those “haters” who think Mix-A-Lot is acting like an “Uncle Tom,” he quickly refutes the claim:
Now let me do this, as far as the critics are concerned: I don't want to come off like, "Oh, he's an Uncle Tom," because I'm not. If what Blake Lively meant by that comment was, "Oh my goodness, I've gained weight, I look horrible," … then I'm with the critics. But no one in the world is gonna tell me that a woman that wears that dress is thinking that she's fat…It sounds like to me like she was giving the line props.
