People are upset about Tyga's new music video for his single "1 of 1" that dropped last Friday. Tyga flew all the way out to Jamaica to shoot the video on the beaches of Kingston.
Upon watching the video and hearing the song, fans had a few complaints. First, the song sounds uncomfortably similar to Drake's song "Controlla" from his new album Views. Secondly, Tyga (who is Jamaican himself) said Kingston was "like the ghetto back home, just more undeveloped."
Then there's the fact that Tyga set his video in Jamaica, but cast a white model of Pakistani/German descent named Amina Blue as his love interest. In the middle of the music video, a Jamaican man appears and disrupts Tyga's party to take his daughter (played by Amina) home. So not only did Tyga cast a white girl as his love interest, but we're meant to believe that she is Jamaican (or at least half). Amina is also wearing bantu knots, a natural hairstyle originated in southern Africa, throughout the vid.
People are understandably upset about this. Why film a music video about falling in love with a Jamaican girl and then cast a white model to play her? Why not not just cast an actual Jamaican girl?