<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s no denying Mulatto’s talent or the fact that she’s blowing up. After being featured as part of this year’s XXL Freshman Class, Big Latto has proven to be a force to reckon with in this rap game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there’s one issue that continues to haunt her as her career blossoms&#8211;her stage name. Mulatto has received criticism for using Mulatto as the name she performs under given the word’s racist history. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mulatto was once used to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">define hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey. It then became the term of mixed-race children from an era when Black people were treated like livestock and raped by their white slave owners, creating bi-racial children</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During an interview with <a href="https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.59261/title.mulatto-hints-at-an-official-name-change-speaks-on-infamous-fivio-foreign-line#">Hip Hop DX</a>, Mulatto hinted at possibly changing her controversial stage name from Mulatto to her alternate-nickname Big Latto. “I can’t say too much because we’re working on something right now, but I would be lying to say it hasn’t crossed my mind before,” Mulatto told DX. “It is a controversy that I hear and see every day as far as my name goes, so I would be lying to say no I never thought of that. But I can’t say too much because right now, because it’s going to be a part of something bigger.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the controversy, 2020 has been a big year for Mulatto including her collab with Gucci Mane “Muwop” and having her breakout single “B***h From Da Souf” get a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also received a lot of love for her bars during the 2020 XXL Freshman Cypher. Her particular freestyle session went viral when she name dropped fellow freshman Fivio Foreign.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mulatto has been in the game for years but really came on the scene in 2016 as the winner of Jermaine Dupri’s Lifetime show, “The Rap Game.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It will be interesting to see if the name change will be enough to escape the issues that surround “Mulatto.” We’ll keep you posted on any updates.</span></p>
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