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Zayn Malik Raps About Facing Racism During One Direction Days in New Song Teaser
Zayn Malik slams the racism he faced during his One Direction days in a new song teaser.
The “white band” in question is presumably 1D, which Malik joined in 2010 with fellow X Factor auditioners Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and the late Liam Payne. But as the group shot to fame at the beginning of the decade, the public was quick to project hateful narratives onto Malik, who was raised Muslim by a Pakistani father and English mother. At times, the internet was rife with offensive and baseless rhetoric about the musician supposedly being involved with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks or joining ISIS, something he spoke about in a 2015 The Fader cover story.
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