- Tom Hanks’ rapper son Chet “Haze” Hanks raised eyebrows on Sunday after he gave a Golden Globes red carpet shout out to his father in Jamaican Patois.
- “Big up, big up. The whole island massive. It’s ya boy Chetena, coming straight from the Golden Globes ya na what I’m saying, me finna father Tom Hanks presenting an award. Soon forward come. Big up, tune in!,” Hanks said in the video posted to Instagram.
- Internet reactions varied from total confusion to outright disgust, with entertainment journalist Valerie Complex calling Hanks a “cultural terrorist.”
- Hanks, who was born in Los Angeles, released a second video in Patois on Monday, thanking people who reacted positively to his first video.
- “Me wake up this morning and see the thing turn up. Internet gone mad. Respect. Ya dun no … Booyaka, booyaka,” he said.
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The internet has become mighty confused with Tom Hanks’ rapper-actor son Chet, who has recently started speaking in Jamaican Patois.
From the Golden Globes red carpet on Sunday, “Chet Haze” Hanks, real name Chester, posted a video to Instagram in which announced his father was to win the the Cecil B. DeMille achievement award, but in a Caribbean accent.
“Big up, big up. The whole island massive. It’s ya boy Chetena, coming straight from the Golden Globes ya na what I’m saying, me finna father Tom Hanks presenting an award. Soon forward come. Big up, tune in!,” Hanks said.
Watch the video here.
http://instagr.am/p/B69VY-Tp2e5
The video was captioned: "BIG UP FIMI WHOL FAMILY SOON COM AT DI AWARDS NA SEEN CHUNE IN."
The video went viral on Twitter with many social media users lamenting Hanks' attempt at Patois, but some thought it was a good try.
"I, a proud Jamaican woman, have no words," Starr Bowenbank, a news reporter at Cosmopolitan, wrote in an article.
"Thankfully for Chet, there's no Golden Globe award for the Cringiest Show Attendee, but let's be real - he'd sweep that category with zero competition."
In a series of tweets, entertainment journalist Valerie Complex called Hanks a "cultural terrorist" and said the video was "deeply disturbing and chaotic."
On Monday, Hanks responded with a second video on Instagram outside a smoothie store in Los Angeles, thanking those who had responded positively to his first video.
http://instagr.am/p/B6_ul1rp_Vt
"Yo, big up the yout them way up in Kingston. Me wake up this morning and see the thing turn up. Internet gone mad. Respect. Ya dun no ... Booyaka, booyaka," he said.
"RESPECT TO MI #ISLAND MASSIVE RRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH," he captioned the video.
The move seems very recent, in an Instagram live video on December 28, Hanks is heard speaking with the generic American accent his some 80,000 Instagram followers had grown accustom to.
Hanks was chastised in 2015 after he vehemently defended his use of the n-word. He later apologized and said he was "trolling."