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Dawn Richard compares her 'transition' to Caitlyn Jenner
Okay, past the fact that D∆WN (the artist formally known as Dawn Richard) has at least had over $100k of work done and no one knows how she's paid for it because she's never went gold by herself after 2008. And while she even implies in this interview that post-Bad Boy isn't an easy road, she seems to really have this attitude of a thousand arrogant Beyonce's.
In a new interview with B. Scott, the singer talks about her "transition"
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On owning her ‘new look’ and criticism from the Black community:
“Absolutely. I got a whole new everything! A whole new attitude, a whole new weave, a whole new everything. But that’s because, I’m growing…as a woman. Whatever choices I make. It’s beautiful — actually — it’s interesting that there’s a negative view of me, but we’re celebrating such a beautiful transition from someone like Caitlyn Jenner. I find it interesting that we appreciate some transformations, but we don’t appreciate others. I think there’s beautiful in all of it. And if I did make a transformation or a transition, why does it even matter at this point if I seem happy and I’m creating something that is beautifully artistic and really, as a black woman, doing something that is very different and delving into a world that not a lot of us are in? I think we should celebrate it instead of being so negative. I’m very discouraged that our culture is so negative on me, but so supportive of something like a Caitlyn Jenner. I wish we would be just as supportive as we are with her as [with me].
It would be really nice to have my culture behind me. To be real, real, with you — the most negative comments and the most negative press that I get comes from my own culture, Black people, which is truly sad. It’s the one culture that I support and that I love so much. So when I see so much negativity from my own culture, it discourages me.
Then I get all this support from more diverse [cultures], whether it be white, asian, whatever the media [is]. They’re printing stuff like ‘Dawn and this amazing album’ and ‘critically acclaimed,’ giving me ‘8.8s out of this’ and then I go look at Black media — and they don’t even post me unless it’s ‘Dawn’s new face!’, ‘Dawn’s fake nose!’, ‘Dawn’s fake eyeballs!’ and I’m like yo — what I’m doing over here is incredible for a Black woman! No label, and I’m out here surviving — past Bad Boy, past all of these things. No big managers, no tv shows, none of this **** to help me get up. I’m doing this **** with no — I’m not on nobody’s TV, I’m not on no reality show, I’m literally doing this **** with nothing. It would really nice if [my Black culture] could be like, ‘man, we are so proud of you’ like how they are about Caitlyn Jenner. Absolutely….we support certain things.
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AND she reads Aubrey and Shannon (dumblonde) some healthy shade.
She also talks about her upcoming single coming this summer and warns that it's a "monster hit"
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On what’s next, her new album & working with Ester Dean:
“I’m super excited because Ester Dean has the first single. I had an opportunity to really stretch my wings out and I’m gonna bring it back home to what I’ve done mainstream-wise and what I’ve done commercially as a writer and really work with Ester Dean to get a big smash. She’s got me with this monster [hit], so we’re gonna release that. Look for our Summer release of that.
I’m really excited, because I think people who are really looking for me to give them what I used to give them will get it with this record.”
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Hopefully Goldenheart brings her the mainstream fame she's deserved for so long.
