{"id":18559,"date":"2022-07-19T00:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tyga-thinks-latinos-are-just-lowrider-driving-spicy-gordos\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T00:06:41","slug":"tyga-thinks-latinos-are-just-lowrider-driving-spicy-gordos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tyga-thinks-latinos-are-just-lowrider-driving-spicy-gordos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyga Thinks Latinos Are Just Lowrider-Driving, &#8216;Spicy&#8217; Gordos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ever since YG&#8217;s \u201cGo Loko\u201d went viral in 2019, Tyga has been trying to recreate that lil crossover moment again and again and again with Latin-inspired songs like \u201cAyy Macarena\u201d and \u201cMamacita.\u201d  And his latest effort, \u201cAy Caramba,\u201d has (once again) failed, drawing criticism from Latino creatives over the song&#8217;s accompanying music video, which is filled with reductive stereotypes and racist tropes the general public let go of years ago. <em>en pocas palabras<\/em>: what the fuck is Tyga thinking?<\/p>\n<p>The video starts with the rapper \u2014 in a fat suit, naming himself \u201cGordo\u201d or \u201cfatty\u201d \u2014 eating a bag of tortilla chips and guacamole while watching a <em>Mira Quien Baila<\/em>-esque dance competition show hosted by the rapper wearing a cartoonish mustache.  (He&#8217;s going for \u201cMexican Telemundo host,\u201d we assume.) He then plays a dancer named Spicy Rico as he makes an attempt at a Chicano accent, saying, \u201cOye, yeah you.  All I wanted was to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- .c-related-links-wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>The fat suit character then cruises in a blue lowrider before he cat-calls Latinas and dances in front of his car as tortilla chips fly.  (\u201cThis is disgusting.\u201d said TikToker Gordita Corajuda in a video.)<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyga - Ay Caramba (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXOR-CbrG8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, these n\u2014s got me fucked up,\u201d says Tyga in the video, bringing back the fake accent.  He also gets Latinos confused with their colonizers as he poses in front of a mariachi band while wearing a matador outfit and raps, \u201cNo way, Jos\u00e9, OK\/My bae lookin&#8217; like Rosal\u00eda.\u201d  (She She&#8217;s literally European, but she go off.)<\/p>\n<p>Latino creators on the Brown Bag Podcast called out the rapper in a recent video, with one of the hosts, Letty Peniche, saying, \u201cIf you&#8217;re gonna go Mexican, have a Mexican homie tell you this is Mexican, this is not Mexican , you&#8217;re jumbling it all together\u2026 Is he doing this because he thinks we like it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hate to break it to you, Tyga, but we don&#8217;t like it.  And the lyrics are pretty trash, too.  Aside from comparing Latinas to Tabasco hot sauce \u2014 the brand founded in Louisiana by a white man \u2014 Latinos don&#8217;t even use the phrase \u201cAy caramba.\u201d  Next time, Tyga should try \u201cay cabr\u00f3n,\u201d \u201cchingada madre,\u201d or perhaps \u201cpara de usar nuestra cultura en tus pinches videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take it from an OG: YouTuber American Cholo called Tyga out for reducing Mexican people to being \u201cfat and greasy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine for a second, a white guy doing this to an African-American, or doing this song,\u201d he said in a video.  \u201cThey would be in the streets screaming.  Fuck that, fuck Tyga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyga is no stranger to featuring Latin-inspired sounds in his tracks.  He did so in the past with \u201cAyy Macarena,\u201d which sampled the iconic Nineties song and featured a verse from Ozuna.  He also got Santana to hop on \u201cMamacita\u201d alongside YG \u2014 all after the success of \u201cGo Loko.\u201d  He&#8217;s also featured on Latino artist tracks like J Balvin&#8217;s \u201cLoco Contigo\u201d and Reykon&#8217;s \u201cLatina\u201d with Maluma and Becky G.<\/p>\n<p>But the difference this time is that when YG released \u201cGo Loko\u201d with Jon Z, the video didn&#8217;t poke fun at Latinos.  Instead, the visual paid homage to Los Angeles&#8217; Mexican and cholo culture, highlighting backyard kickbacks, lowriders, pi\u00f1atas, and Chicano street style.  YG even threw on a red mariachi suit in a way that was tasteful.<\/p>\n<p>Tyga is simply just another example of a creative willing to bite off a different culture when it seems profitable for them.  It&#8217;s not even \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d at this point.  What he&#8217;s doing is reducing Latinos to stereotypes the general public stopped being OK with years ago.  As rapper CNG put it, \u201cY&#8217;all wanna fuck with our culture, right?  Well, where the love at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time Tyga tried something new with his music.  The Mariachi moment may have worked with \u201cGo Loko,\u201d but it seems like <em>he&#8217;s<\/em> the one going loco trying to make that viral moment happen again.  It&#8217;s simply not working. <em>B\u00fascale por otro lado<\/em>Tyga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n\t! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\tn = f.fbq = function() {\n\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t};\n\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '204436500352178');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since YG&#8217;s \u201cGo Loko\u201d went viral in 2019, Tyga has been trying to recreate that lil crossover moment again and again and again with Latin-inspired songs like \u201cAyy Macarena\u201d and \u201cMamacita.\u201d And his latest effort, \u201cAy Caramba,\u201d has (once again) failed, drawing criticism from Latino creatives over the song&#8217;s accompanying music video, which is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tyga-thinks-latinos-are-just-lowrider-driving-spicy-gordos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyga Thinks Latinos Are Just Lowrider-Driving, &#8216;Spicy&#8217; Gordos<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3124,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/see-drake-join-backstreet-boys-for-i-want-it-that-way-in-toronto\/","url_meta":{"origin":18559,"position":0},"title":"See Drake Join Backstreet Boys for &#8216;I Want It That Way&#8217; in Toronto","date":"July 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Backstreet Boys welcomed \u201csixth member\u201d Drake onstage to perform \u201cI Want It That Way\u201d during the boy band's concert Saturday in the rapper's hometown of Toronto. 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