Jesy Nelson has hit back at claims that she is blackfishing and insisted that she is "very aware that I'm a white British woman".
The singer, 30, released her debut single Boyz and its music video on Friday 8 October featuring Nicki Minaj and a cameo from P Diddy whose track, Bad Boy 4 Life, was sampled.
Jesy, who has warned that her new hotly-anticipated R&B single is a "love it or hate it" kind of song, is seen with a tanned complexion and red braided hair in the music video.
However the songstress has defended herself over accusations of blackfishing, which accuses someone of pretending to have Black heritage, and claimed that the term had never been directed towards her prior to leaving Little Mix.
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