In a recent interview with NME , Willow Smith , or simply WILLOW , spoke about the racism she witnessed in rock music, particularly experienced by her mother, Jada Pinkett-Smith , who was the vocalist for the nu metal band Wicked Wisdom in the 2000s.
According to Willow, she grew up watching her mother go on stage countless times and receive racist and sexist comments, as well as having objects thrown at her. “She showed me what it truly means to be a woman,” Willow says. “There are no words to describe what it was like to perform in front of people who literally hated her every night. She did it with so much elegance and power. And at every show, she convinced them.”
“By the end of the show, the people who were using racial slurs with her and throwing things at her were thinking, ‘Actually, they kind of wrecked her.’ That made it all worthwhile,” she concluded.
Previously, Willow had already spoken about the prejudice she suffered for being black and listening to rock , and upon releasing her pop-punk album, Lately I Feel Everything, the singer said she wanted to change the "white male" domination of the rock and metal scene, seeing more black women occupying those spaces.
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