Lauryn Hill never actually said white people shouldn't buy her music, and Tommy Hilfiger never actually said that Black people shouldn't buy his clothes. Both completely fake rumors that even to this day people will swear that its real and they heard it with their own ears or saw the video. Never existed. I never really cared to look it up to verify if it was actually real or fake til this thread
How a Racist Smear Campaign Derailed Lauryn Hill’s Career
"An apocryphal quote from 1996—in which it was asserted that Hill once said she’d rather her children starve than have white people buy her albums—has lingered in many corners. Hill addressed that controversy around the time of Miseducation:
“A couple of years ago some kid had heard that I’d said that I didn’t want white people to buy my records, and that really, really hurt me a great deal because I like to think my music is really universal,” she told MTV in 1998. “And I’ve been everywhere and I have fans everywhere, but because of some rumor that, you know—some radio personality chose to say on his radio show, he had a bunch of people believing something that they’d never seen or never heard themselves but just heard a rumor.”
It was the first in a parade of controversies that changed public perception about one of the most beloved stars of her generation. For the better part of the next two decades, Hill’s image has taken hits from virtually every angle.
but we may never know if Lil Kim actually got her stomach pumped or nah