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An Instagram photo of South Korean pop idol G-Dragon wearing what appears to be a hoodie and dark coloring over his skin was not meant as a comment on race or politics, according to a rep for the Big Bang leader.


"GD was simply wearing different facepaint colors and this is a HUGE misunderstanding," the spokesperson said in an email to SPIN. "The facepaint is only a color variation for his album cover which includes black, white, and red. It is in no way meant to be a political or racial statement."


The rep further clarified, "It’s being derived by a simple photo shoot where GD was using different facepaint colors for his upcoming album."


G-Dragon's spokesperson also said SPIN's article reporting on the image "is completely wrong and taken out of context."


The response comes after we reported on the photo, noting its resemblance to an iconic image of slain Florida youth Trayvon Martin and pointing out that it had drawn criticism online. Though the singer's Instagram account made no mention of Martin, the image bears an eerie similiarity to a meme that had Frank Ocean, Diddy, the-Dream, and others posting photos of themselves in a hoodie last year. (Rap-Up has a good collection of these Martin-inspired images.) Online forums Oh No They Didn't! and One Asian World previously pointed out an alleged connection to the Martin tributes. 


G-Dragon is set to appear at KCON 2013, a K-pop convention in Los Angeles on August 24 and 25, and he is readying a new solo album. G-Dragon's 2012 "Crayon" was SPIN's No. 1 K-pop song of the year. His group Big Bang's "Bad Boy" was one of SPIN's 21 Greatest K-Pop Songs of All Time. Check out our coverage of a Big Bang concert in New Jersey here.


 


http://www.spin.com/articles/g-dragon-denies-blackface-k-pop-hoodie-facepaint-trayvon-martin/


 


 


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I mean...I'm ready to call out racism in kpop when I see it, and I don't like GD so you can be sure I'm not biased....but I honestly didn't see that as blackface. When performers and comedy people in SK do blackface it's really fucking obvious and stereotypical. This wasn't.

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I mean...I'm ready to call out racism in kpop when I see it, and I don't like GD you can be sure I'm not biased....but I honestly didn't see that as blackface. When performers and comedy people in SK do blackface it's really fucking obvious and stereotypical. This wasn't.

This ^....But i do like GD tho

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Oh I know. Never made sense that people were saying it was. 

It was people trying to reach for the stars bullseye.

 

Honestly when I first saw the pic, I thought of Trayvon Martin, but I've also been keeping up with the case.

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I never thought about the Trayvon story 

 

That girl on livejournal just want wank. It's not the first time she posted stuffs calling kpop racist either but making bullshit connection to the Trayvon thing is just low. 

 

What's stupider is SPIN actually though it was real  :wth:

Real "journalism"..............

 

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looooooooooooool @ all those people saying it was a mud mask. Ya'll really don't know how to apply mud masks huh?

Anyways I agree that the whole thing was blown over proportion when they started alluding it to Treyvon Martin. Now is YG really going to keep their schedules on track then?

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Man I haven't seen YG come out with a statement this quick in forever......,Well lets hope GD knows his "artistic" Instagram photos can land him in serious trouble, I bet he was so surprised to even get this kind of response (this could be a wake up call for him). Maybe he'll think twice about the stuff he post .

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