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Sir Mix-A-Lot Has Got Blake Lively’s Back After ‘Oakland Booty’ Instagram Post

By Victoria Miller
Published on: 02:17 PST, May 20, 2016

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Sir Mix-A-Lot is coming to Blake Lively’s defense after the actress described herself as an “L.A. face with an Oakland booty” in a controversial Instagram post. After Lively posted a photo of herself in a form-fitting gown on the Cannes red carpet and captioned the pic with the famous line from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s song, she was slammed on social media for being racially insensitive.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Sir Mix-A-Lot said he doesn’t understand the outrage over Lively’s post, and he says he never meant for his hit song to spur a race war.

“That song was written with African-American women in mind, but trust me, there are white women with those curves everywhere, and they were once considered fat,” Sir Mix-A-Lot said. “And that’s what the song was about. It wasn’t about some race battle.”

Sir Mix-a-Lot released his Grammy-winning hit “Baby Got Back” in 1992, and the song made headlines for its celebration of shapely behinds. The song also includes the line about an “L.A. face with an Oakland beauty.” The rapper admitted he was surprised by the outrage over Lively’s use of the phrase, especially since Katy Perry and Khloe Kardashian both used the line on social media in the past and were never called out for it.

Sir Mix-A-Lot explained that when he wrote “Baby Got Back” it was to celebrate beautiful, curvy women at a time when waif-thin models were all the rage.

“The reason I wrote the song was because I always felt that the African-American idea of what was beautiful was shunned,” Sir Mix-A-Lot said. “Now at the same time, what was promoted as beautiful was kind of really waif-thin, borderline heroin addicts. I don’t mean that literally, I mean the look. That was kind of pushed at us… So I wrote ‘Baby Got Back,’ not to say which race is prettier — which is silly, because there were white women with the same curves that were told that they were fat, too.”

Sir Mix-A-Lot said he was trying to get a message out to big name fashion magazines to “kind of open up a little bit,” and he says his shout-out about an “L.A. face” was really about Hollywood in general.

“What I meant by ‘L.A.’ was Hollywood,” Sir Mix-A-Lot explained. “In other words, makeup or whatever it took to make that face look good, they do it in L.A. But, as much as you can throw makeup on something, you can’t make up the butt. That’s what L.A. face and Oakland booty meant. You can put makeup on that face and make it look beautiful, but a butt is a butt, a body is a body.”

Sir Mix-A-Lot added that for Blake Lively to post what she did makes him happy to think that the norm has changed.

“For her to look at her butt and that little waist and to say ‘L.A. face with an Oakland booty,’ doesn’t that mean that the norm has changed, that the beautiful people have accepted our idea of beautiful? That’s the way I took it.”

The rapper did add that if he has misunderstood Blake’s post and that she is criticizing her weight, then he would be among her critics. But Sir Mix-A-Lot does not think that is what she meant, and he cautions African-American women against issuing a race war against the white actress “because if you say she doesn’t have the right to say that, then how do you expect her at the same time to embrace your beauty?”

Sir Mix-A-Lot also talked about Blake Lively’s stunning gold Atelier Versace gown, telling the New York Daily News she wouldn’t have posed in that gown if she didn’t want to accentuate her curves.

“I don’t think she’d wear that dress if she thought that booty is horrible — and to me, it ain’t horrible,” Sir Mix-A-Lot said. “I don’t get it at all. She’s saying she’s proud of her butt. I’m glad she embraced the look, because that’s what I wanted (with the song).”

Blake Lively has received a lot of criticism for her social media post, but she has yet to remove it from her Instagram page. And that, to Sir Mix-A-Lot, means she’s sending a message loud and clear.

“I’m glad she didn’t pull it down,” Sir Mix-A-Lot said. “I don’t think she should.”

You can see Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo

[Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions]

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