Kitty Pryde receives death threats for using J Dilla sample

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‘Tumblrcore’ rapper, Kitty Pryde has admitted that she receives death threats for using J Dilla beats.

Speaking to Hip-hop DX, the singer said:

“I have songs over their beats, and people like that will send me death threats. I actually got death threats for using a J Dilla beat for a song that I didn’t even release.”

The hip-hop upstart also spoke about the backlash she received at the start of her career, and still does to some extent:

“At first, everybody who listened to my songs hated the shit out of me. I was kind of pissed off, because I thought, “I didn’t even want you to see this. I didn’t put this on the Internet for everyone to see. I just did it because it was a joke for my friends, and I wrote a song for a boy I liked.” It kind of sucked, but then eventually, I was like, “Wait, I have all these people angry because of something I did,” and I felt really powerful for a while.

“White little girls are not allowed to make Hip Hop,” and “You’re not allowed to talk about stuff like this in Hip Hop.” It just doesn’t make sense. What’s the reasoning behind that? No one has ever been able to explain it to me. I really wish someone could. I don’t know what the logic is. It’s definitely the same way for Riff Raff too. There’s just certain things that people don’t want you to do in Hip Hop, and I don’t know who came up with the rules, the law. It doesn’t make sense.”

Kitty Pryde recently dropped new track ‘R.R.E.A.M.’, which you can listen to below: