{"id":175508,"date":"2026-09-12T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=175508"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T21:26:32","slug":"blackpinks-lisa-breaks-silence-on-her-n-word-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/blackpinks-lisa-breaks-silence-on-her-n-word-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK&#8217;s Lisa breaks silence on her &#8216;N-Word&#8217; controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent reports, <strong>BLACKPINK<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Lisa<\/strong> breaks silence on her &#8216;<strong>N-Word<\/strong>&#8216; controversial videos from her trainee period, explaining to fans her situation back then.<\/p>\n<p>On September 11th, the singer&#8217;s solo documentary titled <strong>&#8216;Always Lalisa&#8217;<\/strong> premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, giving fans an intimate view about her career in the K-Pop industry and her time under YG Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>According to new posts on social networks, fans revealed that in the documentary Lisa addressed the recently leaked videos of her singing a <strong>racial slur<\/strong> while covering songs from when she was a young K-Pop trainee.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LISA also addressed the leaked trainee video and the n-word controversy. <\/p>\n<p>she said she was very young, had just left Thailand, and English wasn\u2019t her first language. the company required her to perform rap songs, and she didn\u2019t understand the word\u2019s history or that it was\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lgIzQcqjMo\">pic.twitter.com\/lgIzQcqjMo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u064e (@pinksview) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pinksview\/status\/2098644970026733637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lisa apparently talked about the N-word leaks and said that she had to cover rap songs when she had just come from Thailand, so she wasn\u2019t educated on what the word meant She said she wanted to release a statement with LLOUD addressing the situation, but YG didn\u2019t want her to. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8yapwVKOI\">pic.twitter.com\/g8yapwVKOI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ra ra girl\u00b3\u00b2\u2077 (@lalisamgger) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lalisamgger\/status\/2098637740497621445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The BLACKPINK member explained these videos came from a time she was fresh out of Thailand and <strong>unaware of the racist implications<\/strong> of the term, as English wasn\u2019t her first language. She said that in that moment she only learned the songs required for the trainee evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The singer continues revealing that after educating herself about its meaning, she will never say it again. She even revealed that after the issue, she wanted to release an official statement through <strong>LLOUD<\/strong>, but <strong>YG Entertainment<\/strong> opposed because any declaration would escalate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>On social networks, this declaration is going viral and sparking <strong>mixed reactions<\/strong> among fans and netizens who think this is an excuse and those who blame the agency or bring up her members to compare context, generating more controversy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lisa-addresses-the-controversy-over-using-the-N-word-during-her-trainee-days-1-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent reports, BLACKPINK&#8216;s Lisa breaks silence on her &#8216;N-Word&#8216; controversial videos from her trainee period, explaining to fans her situation back then. On September 11th, the singer&#8217;s solo documentary titled &#8216;Always Lalisa&#8217; premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, giving fans an intimate view about her career in the K-Pop industry and her time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":175528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[17,954],"class_list":["post-175508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kpop","category-news","tag-blackpink","tag-lisa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175533,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175508\/revisions\/175533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}