Latto is teasing one thing huge with one among her new buddies: a lady who apparently received fired from her job at Waffle Home for collaborating within the rapper’s “Brokey” Challenge.
On Tuesday (October 8), the rapper posted photographs to Instagram of her posing with Yadira Ramirez, who created a TikTok video set to Latto’s “Brokey” final month.
A day later, Ramirez posted one other video, this time saying that she’d been fired and positioned on the “unable to rehire” checklist – regardless of her six-year tenure.
In late September, Ramirez met up with Latto, and the rapper gifted her $10,000.
Within the new photographs of Latto and Ramirez, the duo are posing with waffles in a collection of pictures that some commenters speculate could also be stills from an upcoming music video. Test it out under.
The “Brokey” Challenge took place when Latto’s observe “Brokey” obtained some criticism from individuals who thought it poked enjoyable at hard-working of us with not-exactly-well-paying jobs.
The rapper received wind of the criticism and tweeted: “I hate that y’all think I was calling hard workers brokeys [broken heart emoji] so I got $10k for whoever make the best video at they job to brokey & I’ll fly u out to be in the music video.”
“Brokey” at present has solely a lyric video, so it appears probably that the brand new footage of Latto and Ramirez could also be from a full-on music video for the observe.
Launched in August, Latto’s 21-track Sugar Honey Iced Tea album, which comprises “Brokey,” options appearances from Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Younger Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Mariah The Scientist and Teezo Landing.
Meg truly seems twice on the album, first on a brand new music titled “Squeeze,” then once more on their previously-released “Sunday Service Remix,” which additionally options Flo Milli.
The latter seems as a bonus observe together with the unique “Sunday Service,” 2023’s “Put It On Da Floor” and its accompanying Cardi B-assisted remix, “Put It On Da Floor Again.”
“[Aesthetically], I’ve been pulling from Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Lil Kim. [Musically], I’ve been pulling from Kelis, but obviously with a Southern Hip Hop twist,” she stated of the album in a latest Billboard cowl story. “They have very feminine energy, but masculine in the sense of confidence. I feel like they was boss bitches.
“It just gave ‘I’m that girl.’ When you hear and see them in that prime era, it gave ‘I’m here to stay.’ In a world where everybody do music, I’m looking up to the G.O.A.T.s at this shot. Ain’t no microwave artists here. I’m tryna be here for a minute… I am going to be here for a minute. I’ve been here for a minute already.”
She added: “I love the music that I’m making right now. I’m not chasing achievements. I’m just doing me. This is the happiest I’ve been to the point where I even told the label [to] fall back. I’m in the studio — I don’t want y’all sending me no beats, no songs, nothing. I’m doing what I want to do. I really haven’t been this confident for a project yet.”
