When it comes to hip hop music videos these days, it’s easy for viewers to find reasons to protest the women in the videos, being that the eye candy seems to not be too diverse when it comes to skin tones.
Kendrick Lamar recently beat the controversy when he decided to fire the original girl for his recent “Poetic Justice” video in order to hire a girl with a darker skin tone… Brittany Sky.
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He sat down with Miss Info to talk about the leading lady in the video, and why he decided to choose her out of the crowd.
He told Miss Info:
“We had another girl for the lead but I had an idea where I just wanted a little bit of a darker tone [girl] in the video. It’s almost like a color blind industry where there’s only one type of appeal to the camera.“
“I give [Brittany] the credit, too, for just being there, and being a natural, genuine young lady. She wasn’t all in the open, trying to jump in [front] of the camera. She was cool, just chilling. I always kept in the back of my mind like ‘you don’t ever see this tone of a woman in videos. No disrespect, I love all women, period. But at the same time, I still feels like it needs that balance.“
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It’s great to see Kendrick beating the stereotypes and unafraid to take some risks for what he believes in. The video came out beautifully!
Check out the interview above.
