Fashion Icon Naomi Campbell made it very clear that she will not compromise her integrity nor her people for the sake of fame. In the new British GQ cover issue featuring Naomi Campbell and her alleged new beau Skepta, the close friends sat down for a joint interview to discuss race, politics and their careers.
47-year-old Naomi Campbell has been in the fashion industry for over 3 decades. She explains that at this point in her career, she does not book her gigs based on a need for fame. Instead, she chooses jobs based on how they will help black people. “When I choose the job I’m going to do when it’s offered to me … I don’t give a f**k about fame.” “It’s not about that for me. It’s about what does it do for my people now. If I do this job, where can it go? Where does it lead to? What can I do for them? That’s where I’m thinking.”
Campbell was asked how has Donald Trump affected her since becoming President of the United States and she said: “For those people that are ignorant, feel now that they can come out openly and show their ignorance because the leader of the free world is showing his.”
The interview continued with Skepta sharing his thoughts about racism in the music industry. He felt that black rappers are racist to white rappers, he states “Whites were racist to blacks, but now black rappers are saying in their songs ‘White bitch, she’ll sniff a line,’ stuff like that,” he explained. “It’s like why can black rappers say that? If a white rapper said ‘Black bitch … He would get crucified for saying that. I think everybody deep down knows wrong or right, so when people are being racist they know they’re being ignorant.”
Check out their interview in the video clip above.
