Saweetie Once Attended San Diego State University. Now She's Dancing to Her Song with Majorettes at Homecoming

Mar. 15, 2025

Saweetie performs with SDSU majorettes.Photo:Saweetie/Instagram

Saweetie/Instagram

You can take the girl out of dance, but you can never take the dance out of the girl!Saweetiewas in attendance at her alma mater San Diego State University’s (SDSU) homecoming game. For one of the biggest nights of the school year, the rapper showed off her muscle memory and jumped in with the school’s majorette team, the Diamonds, for a routine.In a clipshared to her social mediaset to her 2019 hit “My Type,” Saweetie, 31, is shown at the front of the bleachers in a matching all-black mesh and spandex outfit hitting each beat before the dancers behind her joined in. “SDSU homecoming w my diamond sisters,” she captioned the video.Ahead of homecoming week, Saweetie rummaged through the archives andposted some photosof her time at SDSU, which included photos of her at dorm parties, repping school merch and posing alongside her Diamonds members.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/InstagramSaweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/InstagramIn 2020, Saweetie shared aclip of her majorette daysduring her time at SDSU with the caption, “I miss thiiiis 😭 how many of y’all knew I used to dance? lol might do it again…. 👀🖤"While majorettes originated in Europe, it has a special place in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and combines elements of ballet, jazz and hip-hop dance into each routine. EvenVice President Kamala Harrisdanced alongside young majorettesand a marching band during her campaign trail.The “Icy Girl” rapper shared her pride with another majorette, Princess Isis Lang. In 2022, Lang posted a tweet announcing that shecreated a majorette teamat Saweetie’s other alma mater, the University of Southern California, which has a 6%Black student population.“Oh nothing… i created a majorette team at a PWI and performed at our first game,” Lang tweeted.Saweetiequote tweetedthe clip with the caption, “SOOOOO PROUD.“At San Diego State University, where Saweetie was a member of their majorette team, only3.5% of its student bodyis Black.Saweetie joins the majorettes at SDSU.saweetie/InstagramSaweetie has since been open about her experience being Black at predominantly white institutions. In a2021 interviewwithThe Breakfast Club, the “Best Friend” rapper said it “stripped” her of her “authenticity.““I feel like college is what kind of stripped my authenticity from me because, when you’re going to a predominately white school, you kind of feel like you have to perform sometimes,” she told Angela Yee. “Not speaking for everybody, but at least from my experience. So if anything, I feel like after college, I was kind of getting back to who I was before then.““But being in a world that’s not your world is uncomfortable, you have to adjust, and I felt like I had to conform a lot because sometimes I’d be the only Black or biracial girl in class. So if anything, I feel like I’m finally getting back to me.”

You can take the girl out of dance, but you can never take the dance out of the girl!

Saweetiewas in attendance at her alma mater San Diego State University’s (SDSU) homecoming game. For one of the biggest nights of the school year, the rapper showed off her muscle memory and jumped in with the school’s majorette team, the Diamonds, for a routine.

In a clipshared to her social mediaset to her 2019 hit “My Type,” Saweetie, 31, is shown at the front of the bleachers in a matching all-black mesh and spandex outfit hitting each beat before the dancers behind her joined in. “SDSU homecoming w my diamond sisters,” she captioned the video.

Ahead of homecoming week, Saweetie rummaged through the archives andposted some photosof her time at SDSU, which included photos of her at dorm parties, repping school merch and posing alongside her Diamonds members.

Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/InstagramSaweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/Instagram

Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.

Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.

Saweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/InstagramSaweetie’s Instagram post of her time at SDSU.PHOTO:saweetie/Instagram

saweetie/Instagram

In 2020, Saweetie shared aclip of her majorette daysduring her time at SDSU with the caption, “I miss thiiiis 😭 how many of y’all knew I used to dance? lol might do it again…. 👀🖤”

While majorettes originated in Europe, it has a special place in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and combines elements of ballet, jazz and hip-hop dance into each routine. EvenVice President Kamala Harrisdanced alongside young majorettesand a marching band during her campaign trail.

The “Icy Girl” rapper shared her pride with another majorette, Princess Isis Lang. In 2022, Lang posted a tweet announcing that shecreated a majorette teamat Saweetie’s other alma mater, the University of Southern California, which has a 6%Black student population.

“Oh nothing… i created a majorette team at a PWI and performed at our first game,” Lang tweeted.

Saweetiequote tweetedthe clip with the caption, “SOOOOO PROUD.”

At San Diego State University, where Saweetie was a member of their majorette team, only3.5% of its student bodyis Black.

Saweetie joins the majorettes at SDSU.saweetie/Instagram

Saweetie has since been open about her experience being Black at predominantly white institutions. In a2021 interviewwithThe Breakfast Club, the “Best Friend” rapper said it “stripped” her of her “authenticity.”

“I feel like college is what kind of stripped my authenticity from me because, when you’re going to a predominately white school, you kind of feel like you have to perform sometimes,” she told Angela Yee. “Not speaking for everybody, but at least from my experience. So if anything, I feel like after college, I was kind of getting back to who I was before then.”

“But being in a world that’s not your world is uncomfortable, you have to adjust, and I felt like I had to conform a lot because sometimes I’d be the only Black or biracial girl in class. So if anything, I feel like I’m finally getting back to me.”

source: people.com