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Saweetie has relived her college days, thanks to a special homecoming performance alongside the dance team at her alma mater, San Diego State University.
In a video posted to Instagram by 21Ninety on Sunday (October 27), the Icy Girl can be seen leading the SDSU Diamonds as they perform to her hit single 2019 single “My Type.”
The video was shared alongside a throwback clip of Saweetie during her days as both an SDSU student and a member of the Diamonds dance squad, which, according to its Instagram page, draws inspiration from HBCU majorette dance and culture.
The Bay Area native also posted the video on X (formerly Twtitter), and captioned it, “SDSU homecoming w my diamond sisters [halo emoji, diamond emoji, 3-star emoji.]
While started her college career at San Diego State, Saweetie eventually graduated from USC in with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications in 2016.
Earlier this year, the rapper opened about her experiences at both institutions during an appearance on the Zach Sang Show.
“College taught me how to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations,” Saweetie shared. “I went to two really prestigious universities, San Diego State, then transferred to USC. And a lot of those rooms sometimes I’d be the only woman of color.
“It’s really intimidating when you’re around kids who’ve been put through private schools who’ve had tutoring who are very affluent who are very already well educated and they’re just doing this because, I don’t know if it’s because the legacy or it’s just part of like what their family does. Not only did I go to these schools, I’m first generation. I didn’t have anyone to like mentor me. I had no guidance.”
She continued: “Anyways, it’s made me a strong woman. But it made me like just put the negative chatter in my head to the side and really just exist in these rooms without putting sometimes my own glass ceilings there. Because I would assume because I talk like this, I look like this, they were judging me.
“But sometimes I was creating these false narratives in my own head. And I noticed that when I started to participate more, when I started to show who I was more, everything was fine. It just taught me to be a very forward woman.”
