Trey Songz Posts And Deletes Music Video He “Scrapped” Due To Lack Of Black Women
Trey Songz took to Instagram on Tuesday (June 25) to share a now-deleted snippet from a music video he “scrapped” due to its scarcity of Black women. The R&B singer also claimed that while shooting the archived visual in Spain, he was called the N-word.
“Archives. I scrapped this video cause it wasn’t enough Black women in it,” he captioned a clip of him surrounded by a majority of Latina video girls. “In Spain last time somebody called me a ‘ni**er’ didn’t feel right. Song cold tho Traw my dawg Tyga.”
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Songz’s stance seemed to be rooted in support of Black women, but it didn’t stop critics from assuming his reasoning for never releasing the video. His post also reignited the many allegations surrounding the “Just Gotta Make It” crooner regarding sexual abuse against women.
“Is this not a conversation you have with your team prior to shooting an entire video? It’s giving, he needs black women to ride for him in his upcoming legal troubles, because we all know most BW STEP behind our men. Unfortunately it’s not always reciprocated,” one user commented on The Shade Room’s re-post.
Another person wrote, “So when he was shooting the video, he didn’t realize black women were missing,” as a third person speculated, “He saw the way black women rallied behind Jonathan Majors during his legal trouble and he back on the scene. Now Trey want that same energy.”
Critics weren’t buying the 39-year-old’s reasoning for posting the “scrapped” video, as many speculated that he’s now “looking for sympathy” and “support” from a group of women that some feel he doesn’t favor.
Others claimed the video was probably shelved because of the various sexual assault allegations against him.
In April, Songz settled a $25,000,000 sexual assault case where he was accused of raping a woman at a party in 2016. According to Radar Online, Trey, né Tremaine Neverson, reached out to the courts at that time to inform them of his decision.
“The settlement agreement conditions dismissal of this matter on the satisfactory completion of specified terms that are not to be performed within 45 days of the date of the settlement,” he reportedly stated. “A request for dismissal will be filed no later than June 10, 2024.”
Last year, a Jane Doe sued Songz, Atlantic Records, and his manager Kevin Liles, for allegedly raping and sexually assaulting her during a party in March of 2016. Additionally, he was accused of gender violence, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment.
Upon accusations, Songz’s legal team stated at the time, “It isn’t hard to see what’s happening here, and it is a shame for genuine victims of sexual assault.”
Aside from that isolated incident, Songz has previously also been accused of striking a woman in the face at a strip club in 2012; pulling a woman’s breast out of her bikini top at a party in 2013; choking a woman at his L.A. home in 2017; holding an Instagram model and her friend hostage in his house in 2018; raping a woman at a Las Vegas hotel in 2022; physically attacking a woman in a bowling alley bathroom in the same year; and performing nonconsensual sex acts on two women while they were passed out in his home in 2023.
Some of the accusations listed above have been dismissed, settled, or are still pending.
Take a look at a snippet of Trey Songz’s “scrapped” music video featuring Tyga above.
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