Rapper Harrison Armstrong, 21, known professionally as Aitch, is a British rapper and songwriter from Manchester.
His solo breakthrough single “Straight Rhymez” has garnered over 20 million views and brought him to the attention of London rapper Stormzy.
Aitch’s song “Rain” has gathered over 39 million views on YouTube and over 100 million streams on Spotify.
Just recently, the rapper hit out at trolls who fat-shamed the models he used for his recent single cover.
Fat shaming is the result of an individual bias against people who are considered unhealthy, unattractive, stupid, lazy, or lacking self-control.
Aitch has spoken bluntly about the negative comments he received after he decided to use plus-size models for his new single Learning Curve.
The cover art for “Learning Curve” shows the 21-year-old from Manchester surrounded by several curvy women in white underwear.
The artistic cover also showed women with different skin tones.
While many fans applauded Aitch for using plus-size models, some of them fat-shamed the women as it differed from the stereotypical model look that is often portrayed in the music industry as a whole.
The musician saw several fans online who gave their opinion about the cover of his new single Learning Curve.
Aitch then spoke about the hateful comments on Spotify’s Who We Be TALKS_ podcast, where he admitted he found it “hard to witness.”
“All the negative stuff was mad to see; obviously, rappers get hate all the time, but it was a lot, and it was also s**t to see men hating on girls that much, it’s hard to witness,” he said.point 275 |
“If you’re going to comment and say that this tune is s**t, then that’s fine, say no more, you can do, but why are you going to comment about a girl.point 129 | ”point 132 | 1
“However, I also found out after I posted that picture how many men behind-the-scenes low-key like plus size girls, and how many were hiding from it,” Aitch added.
When asked why he decided to work with the plus models, in particular, the young rapper said that it’s his vibe.
“If you listen to a couple of my songs and previous lines, certain bars, I reference it, and I know other people do like fuller figures, I think it’s a thing where people don’t want to admit it, and I’ve seen a few things where girls have said, “Oh guys just want to do one night with us and never date us.”
The Manchester-born rapper has also been a victim of abuse on social media and explained that people threatened to “F [him] up” occasionally.
But Aitch believes that some people provoke and send impolite criticisms because they are trying to get a negative reaction out of him.
“Sometimes people who comment just want you to react, so for instance, I get messages and people are like, “Yo, come to this place and I’ll F you up,” I reply saying, “What are you talking about?”, and then they go, “I am such a big fan of your music,” it’s like bro do you know what you’ve just said to me, what are you talking about?!”point 419 | 1
The young rapper has garnered over 1 billion global streams and over 5 million worldwide record sales.