Halsey is on the cover of Playboy's latest Music Issue and she's holding nothing back!
During the in-depth interview, the 22-year-old New Jersey native gets real about growing up biracial and "passing" for white.
"I’m white-passing. I’ve accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that’s not mine."
"I’m proud to be in a biracial family, I’m proud of who I am, and I’m proud of my hair."
"One of my big jokes a long time ago was, I look white, but I still have white boys in my life asking me why my nipples are brown."
"Every now and then I experience these racial blips. I look like a white girl, but I don’t feel like one. I’m a black woman."
"So it’s been weird navigating that. When I was growing up I didn’t know if I was supposed to love TLC or Britney."
And the "Now or Never" singer remembered people switching their demeanor because her father is black.
"I’m half black. My dad managed a car dealership, wore a suit to work, had a nice watch, was always clean-shaven, handsome, played golf on the weekends."
"And people would come up to him like, Yo, brotha! What’s up! And my dad would be like, Hi.…”
