City Girls’ Yung Miami had tounges wagging on social media when comments she made about Oprah Winfrey in an interview surfaced on the internet.
Here’s what Yung Miami said about Oprah Winfrey
The Good Love rapper was recently featured in an XXL exclusive, where she was probed about a number of hot topics, including her open relationship with her boss slash boyfriend, Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs, her music career, and her top-charting podcast, Caresha Please.
While the interview delved deep into Miami’s online personality, juggling her music career with motherhood, her thoughts on going solo, and so on, it was her response to a question about her podcast goals that drew ire from social media.
When asked about how Caresha Please, which was acquired by Revolt network in June 2022, came about, Miami candidly admitted it was Diddy’s idea.
“So, one day I was talking with Diddy and he was like, ‘yeah, [you] should do a podcast. It would be good for you,’ and thatβs how it came out. It was just a conversation of me just always going viral off the way I talk and the engagement that I used to get off of Instagram Live,” she said.
Looking ahead, the Miami rapper revealed her goal for Caresha Please, which, thus far, has seen appearances from top-tier guests like Megan Thee Stallion, Saweetie and Latto, is to “take it to the next level.”
“I want to be likeβI think she has a podcast nowβa person like Wendy Williams. Iβm dreaming big. I want to go to the highest of the highest. I want to be the Black Oprah,” she said.
The real head-scratcher in Miami’s comments was the fact that… Winfrey is a black woman. Of course, the billionaire philanthropist who, once upon a time, hosted the daytime The Oprah Winfrey Show has lost favour in the African American community over the years.
While there isn’t a specific reason, most of the rhetoric points to Winfrey’s past relationship with convicted sex fiend Harvey Weinstein and her failure to publicly denounce the Hollywood producer, as well as her choice of interviewees.
Alas, social media commenters were not here for Miami’s blatant disregard for Winfrey’s ethnic identity in her comments.
The City Girl, of course, did not take the backlash lying down. In fact, Miami doubled down on her comments and insisted she meant what she said about ‘black’ Oprah.
Here’s how users reacted: