The Gucci model is dealing with a boycott after releasing a turtleneck sweater that resembled blackface. Lil Pump has joined the rising listing Hip Hop artists supporting the boycott, however his stance comes with a small caveat.
Throughout an Instagram livestream, Pump stated he not helps Gucci however gained’t cease performing his hit single “Gucci Gang.”
“That performed music modified my life,” he defined. “That’s the one purpose why I’ll preserve performing that music, ’trigger that’s the music that modified my life. I went from broke to wealthy to that music. So, , it’s what it’s.”
Final week, Gucci issued an apology for the fensive clothes merchandise and eliminated it from shops.
“Gucci deeply apologizes for the fense attributable to the wool balaclava jumper,” the luxurious model stated in a press release. “We are able to affirm that the merchandise has been instantly faraway from our on-line retailer and all bodily shops. We think about variety to be a basic worth to be absolutely upheld, revered, and on the forefront each resolution we make.
“We’re absolutely dedicated to rising variety all through our group and turning this incident into a robust studying second for the Gucci group and past.”
View a photograph the sweater that sparked the outrage under.
Gucci has apologized and discontinued promoting a sweater after criticism that it resembles blackface https://t.co/AU7RVR9Xj6 pic.twitter.com/GBf0rdsNDk
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