It’s not everyday that rapper Doja Cat makes headlines. But that all changed over the weekend and it unfortunately has to do with some unexpected family drama. Don’t worry, we’ll explain.
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Things originally popped off when the “Juicy” made a video over the weekend titled “The Deadbeat Chronicles” explaining how her father Dumisani Dlamini—who lives in South Africa—couldn’t make it to a show that she was performing in the country. She claimed that his reasoning for not showing up was because she didn’t “message him enough” and call him enough. In response to that, she decided to troll him by sending him a link to get tickets that actually ended up being a link to gay porn instead.
Well, now Dlamini is responding to his daughter and her allegations that he wasn’t a present father. In a since-deleted lengthy video posted to Instagram, he called out the “Need to Know” rapper’s white mother Deborah Sawyer and pointed to her specifically as to the reason why his child thinks he’s a “deadbeat.” He also went so far as to say that Doja’s mother “brainwashed” her into believing that he left her when he was a kid.
“Today, I want to tell the world that I’m not gonna be used by a white woman with three kids that I was feeding those kids with the money of Sarafina!,” Dlamini said.
“And my name and my reputation as a good man, I love my kids. I took care of her kids, [Doja’s mother] Deborah [Sawyer]. Three kids, white kids, they hated me. And on top of that, I spoke to Deborah that I would love you to come home, and she came home. She met my family. But no one ever talks about that,” he explained.
He then went on to say that the rapper had the power to see him in South Africa, but “she faked it.” Dlamini then pushed back against the narrative that he’s a deadbeat and instead argued that he was a “a man of integrity, respect, and love.”
He continued: “Just because I gave birth to a superstar with money, and then it happened that white woman brainwashed my baby that I left her. I never left my kid. And everyone saw it. She played the cards because of the influence of her mother. She came to South Africa. She’s got power to see me, and she faked it. So what I want to say is to say to you guys, I am sorry if I’ve touched anyone’s nerve. I’m a man of integrity, respect, and love. Please don’t hate my baby.”
This isn’t the first time Doja Cat has openly spoke out about her issues with her dad as she did so two years prior and even made it seem like she was going to drop a diss track about him, though she later changed her mind.
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