Sexyy Red sparked backlash after posting a video of herself making an appearance at a St. Louis high school. Some people on Twitter blasted the school for allowing the 25-year-old rapper to perform, largely because the explicit nature of Sexyy Red's lyrics.
Over the weekend, Sexyy Red hopped on Twitter to clarify that she didn't perform her hit song for the students, instead showing up to do some charity work for the school's prom.
“Y’all do know I went there to give the boys money for they haircuts and girls bundles for prom week cause I remember when I needed help with my prom stuff," she wrote.
Sexyy Red has catapulted into the mainstream this year off the strength of her breakthrough hit "Pound Town." Back in May, Nicki Minaj hopped on a remix of the Tay Keith-produced track.
The St. Louis rapper spoke about "Pound Town" in a recent interview with Complex’s Eric Skelton, revealing it was the first song she ever freestyled.
“I was in the studio, just on some lazy stuff, and my people was like, ‘Come on, you got more songs to record,’” she shared. “And I’m like, ‘I ain’t got nothing wrote down, come on now.’ So I went in the booth, and this was my first time ever freestyling. I heard the beat and just started rapping from there. The whole thing was a freestyle.”
Check out Sexy Redd's full interview with Complex here.
