“I already get emotional when people say that my music helped them get through any type of situation in their lives,” she said, her eyes welling. When she recalled the responses she received, Ms. Many responded with photos and notes of solidarity and thankfulness. In October, she asked her fans to post photos of themselves in their natural state, showing their natural bodies and natural hair. Farris turned the body shaming into positivity. “I don’t think she’s scared to do anything,” he added. Farris for Afropunk, but has also styled Megan Thee Stallion, Latto and Summer Walker, said: “Everyone has their own style and idea of what they’re comfortable with, but for her, I think she’s just a little bit freer and more open.” After being independent for nearly seven years, she signed a record deal with Warner Records. She knows the pandemic - which she refers to as the “panorama” - has affected her eating habits, but she doesn’t sweat it. Farris responded to the negative comments on social media by posting pictures of herself in bathing suits, with comments about her love for her natural body. “They see that, and they think: This is what I need to get.” Farris said while pressing her fist in her hand, after her fitting. “So many people have died and I feel like people don’t know that, they don’t care about that, especially the young girls that look up to all of us,” Ms. In 2020, there were 21,823 buttock augmentations in the United States, which include implants or fat grafting, according to a report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The physique can typically be achieved only through surgery, specifically procedures like the Brazilian butt lift, one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries, despite having the highest mortality rate for any cosmetic surgery, according to a 2017 report by the National Institutes of Health. “I come out with a two-inch protruding belly and it’s, ‘My God, she’s eating McDonald’s every day,’” Ms. One Twitter user said she “could lose 10 pounds” and another said that she had “bad habits and poor discipline.” Several days later, however, as the images from the show made their way across the internet, comments turned from praise to disdain. “Everybody is out there in so many different ranges of what Black and Afro punk looks like.” “Of all the festivals that I’ve performed at, Afropunk is one that I feel like, especially for Black people, you can be the most yourself,” Ms. She hadn’t intended to wear the exposed look, but her planned outfit didn’t pan out.Though she had had her doubts about showing so much of her body, she received compliments on her outfit from the audience. In October, after a performance at Afropunk in Atlanta, she faced intense online criticism for the way her body looked in black leather boots and a belly-baring cougar-print outfit. Farris, even if she cannot always control what people say about her. “I am protected, well respected, I’m a queen, I’m a dream, I do what I want to do and I’m who I want to be,” the chorus ends. It’s an empowering track with a bunch of affirmations nestled in the chorus: “I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am rich,” the song starts off. Farris, who performs under the name Baby Tate, released “I Am” last year. “It’s giving baddie!” she said to the room as she danced with herself in the mirror. Farris threw a few mock punches while twerking gently. Her hair freshly braided in cornrows, with a heart braided on the left side of her head, her makeup - a soft natural glam - flawlessly done, Ms. Farris evaluated all five feet and one inch of herself. Standing in front of a full-length mirror, Ms. White asked the seamstress to pin them at the middle of her thigh. Her stylist, Todd White, was working alongside a seamstress, and a photographer buzzed around too, all of them like bees swarming their queen. On an early October day in her hometown, Atlanta, the 24-year-old rapper was getting fitted for a music video for her song “Dungarees,” dressed in snakeskin boxer shorts and a see-through halter top from Gucci. ATLANTA - Tate Sequoya Farris has never been shy about her music or her body.