Latto is teasing something big with one of her new friends: a woman who apparently got fired from her job at Waffle House for participating in the rapper’s “Brokey” Challenge.
On Tuesday (October 8), the rapper posted photos to Instagram of her posing with Yadira Ramirez, who created a TikTok video set to Latto’s “Brokey” last month.
A day later, Ramirez posted another video, this time saying that she’d been fired and placed on the “unable to rehire” list – despite her six-year tenure.
In late September, Ramirez met up with Latto, and the rapper gifted her $10,000.
In the new photos of Latto and Ramirez, the duo are posing with waffles in a series of shots that some commenters speculate may be stills from an upcoming music video. Check it out below.
The “Brokey” Challenge came about when Latto’s track “Brokey” received some criticism from people who thought it poked fun at hard-working folks with not-exactly-well-paying jobs.
The rapper got wind of the criticism and tweeted: “I hate that y’all think I was calling hard workers brokeys [broken heart emoji] so I got $10k for whoever make the best video at they job to brokey & I’ll fly u out to be in the music video.”
“Brokey” currently has only a lyric video, so it seems likely that the new pictures of Latto and Ramirez may be from a full-on music video for the track.
Released in August, Latto’s 21-track Sugar Honey Iced Tea album, which contains “Brokey,” features appearances from Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Young Nudy, Hunxho, Coco Jones, Mariah The Scientist and Teezo Touchdown.
Meg actually appears twice on the album, first on a new song titled “Squeeze,” then again on their previously-released “Sunday Service Remix,” which also features Flo Milli.
The latter appears as a bonus track along with the original “Sunday Service,” 2023’s “Put It On Da Floor” and its accompanying Cardi B-assisted remix, “Put It On Da Floor Again.”
“[Aesthetically], I’ve been pulling from Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Lil Kim. [Musically], I’ve been pulling from Kelis, but obviously with a Southern Hip Hop twist,” she said of the album in a recent Billboard cover story. “They have very feminine energy, but masculine in the sense of confidence. I feel like they was boss bitches.
“It just gave ‘I’m that girl.’ When you hear and see them in that prime era, it gave ‘I’m here to stay.’ In a world where everybody do music, I’m looking up to the G.O.A.T.s at this shot. Ain’t no microwave artists here. I’m tryna be here for a minute… I am going to be here for a minute. I’ve been here for a minute already.”
She added: “I love the music that I’m making right now. I’m not chasing achievements. I’m just doing me. This is the happiest I’ve been to the point where I even told the label [to] fall back. I’m in the studio — I don’t want y’all sending me no beats, no songs, nothing. I’m doing what I want to do. I really haven’t been this confident for a project yet.”
