On the night that Donald Trump was elected president, Chika and her best friend Sam created a video while watching the election unfold. In the video, Chika jokingly applied Sam's concealer to her face, which was much lighter than her skin tone. ("It was like, white on me," she recalled while speaking to Business of Fashion.) When the election was called and she and Sam were left devastated, Chika attempted to perk her up by tweeting the video, not thinking that anyone besides her friends would take notice. But then it went viral.
"It blew up because everyone thought it was hilarious," she told Business of Fashion. "But then also all the Trump supporters and other racist people came out of the woodwork and they're like, this is 'whiteface' — which doesn't even exist. They got my account suspended on Twitter for like a week or something." Luckily, she gained way more fans than haters. "It's kind of a blessing in disguise," she continued, "because if my Twitter page hadn't gotten suspended, I would've never posted it on Instagram. And that's what started my Instagram following. I gained like 17,000 followers overnight. And the next day I started rapping."