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Kehlani Ashley is an American Singer, known mononymously as Kehlani released a pro-Palestine music video for her song “Next 2 U” She revealed that after releasing this video, she received backlash. In an interview with the Breakfast Club, she shared her experience and said that she had no issues from her record label but received pushback and loss on things that were promised with the release of her new album “Crash”
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“Magazines, brand deals and opportunities that [I] was sad to lose, but at the end of the day I don’t regret [losing out, because] I can go to sleep at night,” she said
Her opportunities with many magazines were revoked. Several brand deals were withdrawn and requests for collaborations were ignored or declined.
Despite all this, she stated that she does not regret her stance and values the role of art in liberation.
However, while mentioning about magazines that were revoked, she stated that they did not explicitly state that her support for Palestine was the reason behind their actions.
In regard to her collaboration, she stated that
“Things travel, people have conversations. People were respectful enough to not text me back and say, ‘Girl f***k you, I’m a Zionist’.”
“It’s sad because that does get dangled in front of our faces when it comes to really important political things that people don’t align with,”
