Adele has broken her silence after she became embroiled in a cultural appropriation scandal.
The Someone Like You singer, 32, sparked enormous reaction when she posted a picture of herself in a bikini over the weekend, which showed off her incredible seven stone weight loss.
The picture caused huge controversy because she opted to wear a Jamaican flag print bikini and her hair in Bantu knots in honour of the cancelled Notting Hill Carnival, which is rooted in Caribbean culture.
After she was accused of cultural appropriation for the post, Adele poked fun of the uproar when she made a rare appearance on social media.
She appeared in the comments section of Brandy and Monica speaking Patois.
Adele wrote: "Wah Gwaan! Yow gyal, yuh look good enuh."
It came after she posted the picture of herself partying in a huge garden to celebrate what would have been the day the Notting Hill Carnival was held.
Dressed in her bikini and a pair of leggings, Adele had done her hair in Bantu knots, a traditional African hairstyle.
She captioned the picture: "Happy what would be Notting Hill Carnival my beloved London."
Twitter then launched into a fiery debate about whether Adele's look was offensive or not.
"Adele dropped that weight and said it's time for her cultural appropriation era," one person tweeted.
"Dear white people, please just be yourselves and stop it for good with cultural appropriation. Adele the bantu knots were unnecessary. The Jamaican flag bikini top was unnecessary... Please just stop it," another follower wrote.
"Black women are discriminated against for wearing cultural hairstyles like bantu knots and locs but white people are not, that's not fair and that's why people are p****d off," one explained to her.
But several people defended Adele, including model Naomi Campbell, and David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, where Adele grew up.
"Poppycock! This humbug totally misses the spirit of Notting Hill Carnival and the tradition of 'dress up' or 'masquerade'," Lammy wrote on Twitter.
"Adele was born and raised in Tottenham she gets it more than most. Thank you Adele. Forget the Haters."
