American rapper-singer Doja Cat is not afraid to speak her mind, especially when it comes to clapping back at trolls.
The multihypenate star, who is famous for livestreams on TikTok and Twitch, spilled the beans in a latest interview on why she hits back at online haters.
The 30-year-old rapper has previously addressed numerous accusations, including cosmetic surgeries, lightening her complexion for photographs and participating in "racist conversations".
"When I feel that I’m threatened, even though it may not be a threat at all, it rhymes with: You are failing," said the rapper whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini.
“I feel like I have to defend my creative choices, and then I give those people power even though they could be anybody—they could have Cheeto dust on their fingers and have no job," she said on her turbulent relationship with online hate over the years.
Is it something she thinks she'll stop doing anytime soon?
“I don’t know, in life, you grow. We’ll see where I am when I’m 50, if I’m still on Twitter doing stuff like that, who knows? Hopefully not."
When asked whether she deliberately goes online to seek out negative comments, the "Say So" hitmaker said artists in general "can be quite critical of ourselves" to the point where seeing a comment about something she has had insecurities about can sometimes be "validating."
"You feel you’re more in control in a sense," she explained. " 'I’ve got it all figured out. I can’t sing. I’ve got it all figured out. I am ugly. I got it all figured out. I got cankles.' "
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“It’s a useless way to spend your time. It doesn’t do anything for you other than entertain a part of you that was built during your childhood, a part of you that is stuck in the past," she added.
Meanwhile, in a TikTok last week, Doja shared an emotional health update with her fans when she announced that she has been diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder).
"I've learned from a very young age to pretend that I like stuff, to pretend that I'm happy, to pretend that I don't like stuff that I do, to appear like everything is okay," she said. "I'll get it done. And it caught up with me, and I think it always does for people. I'm now struggling with BPD."
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