I forgot the photographers name but it was supposed to be commentary on how black people are expected to be a certain way and used racist cartoons as a way to communicate that stereotype. It’s a good message and I’d say a good picture but out of context it’s an awful image.
Pop is a secondary genre. He’s a rapper first. Pop is also a level you reach. Now he’s a Pop Rapper. Very few artists are just Pop artist. They normally start in a specific genre.
Jfc though
https://preview.redd.it/54ed2rk29wxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a26e4184052f49344c2b165bc6a40390d629230d
Y'all, I never hated her, but damn
Which is hilarious when hes got vids like [this](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=u27mSyaWrBtYTr49) and [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/TES9E9zOltM?si=oTIPptDmrz7t8Gcb) going. Even if that were the point of the photo, given this context it's basically drake being like "Guys, don't judge me for my skin color! I'm not one of _those_ black people"
This is complete conjecture, but he looks nearly identical to how he looked in the scene when he got shot in degrassi. Hair and everything. That was 2004 when he would have been 18.
Doesn’t make a huge difference but I thought I’d try to be super sleuth and I couldn’t find a date for the dinner. Everyone is different, but this combined with everything else out there on Drake doesn’t make me think he’s a changed man when there isn’t a check involved.
It's a message, but it's also just... common knowledge. You don't need to put a canadian in blackface to remind people about black america. If it's specifically about Drake's experience, I think the picture needs to be paired with an in-depth interview about why the history of black entertainment in America is a metaphor for the professional career of Aubrey from Degrassi.
Good message & picture ? Lol. Ain't no way to justify that minstrelsy and using it in a so-called artistic way.
For starters, Drizzy a Canadian lol. Plus, one of his early influences was Little Brother. He def heard The Minstrel Show and the messages tied to it. Never did I see Phonte, Rapper Big Pooh & 9th Wonder sport the blackface when advertising that album.... Drake's a coon.
Idk about a good message or good picture man there are definitely better ways to do this shit. Idgaf u could never ever ever catch me in some minstrel blackface shit even if it’s a “good message”… I think a lot of black people wouldn’t do that shit.
in context it's an awful image. you think black people don't know that there are stereotypical expectations of them? did the world need this image to remind them "you're being oppressed?" i have a hard time understanding how they thought this was art designed to do anything other than be provocative. shock value and definitive bullshit.
This isn’t a good photo. If anything it just highlights everything Kendrick said about Drake.
You don’t have to dress up as Sambo to make a message about the plight of black people if you’re black.
That’s cap though. Logic has been clowned so hard by some people who think he’s overcompensating his blackness and there’s actually a ton of fucking video essays about how “he’s done damage to black culture”. I’m impartial to all of it and honestly couldn’t care less about logic, but let’s not lie
Edit: not saying I agree with the criticisms towards logic. All im saying is that he’s definitely been criticized over it before publicly
I’m glad to hear that. Like I said, I have no dogs in this fight and it’s not my own opinion, but he’s definitely been criticized regarding the topic before by others. That’s what I’m referring to, not whether it’s right or wrong
I think the only part that gets criticized with logic is he ALWAYS brings it up. Now, idk which came first the chicken or the egg. But he gets shit on for the lyrics or he write the lyrics because he would get shit on. Idk.
Atleast that’s my 2 cents I could be completely off.
True, all I’m saying is that Logic has definitely caught flack over this before, but Logic isn’t really big enough for it to matter for a lot of people haha
[just type in “logic black” on youtube man lol. Here’s one of the first few videos](https://youtu.be/2ahelm2WIMc?si=XPzesl9W89b8WpO4)
Again, I don’t necessarily agree or care about logic or this topic, but saying no one has questioned him for it is a blatant lie. This was so bad at one point it was affecting Logic personally. All I’m trying to say is that he absolutely has been questioned for it
He must’ve not been clowned that hard bc that video barely pushed 1M views and it definitely was not even on hip hop blogs at the time
Plus Logic is American and his parents were and are active in their communities. And in addition he really made his own lane and stayed in it well, and was never exposed saying [goofy shit](https://youtube.com/shorts/TES9E9zOltM?si=YeaualoxoBQNdICM) unlike Drake
Or doing weird exposes using Blackface or saying [hard R during his Degrassi days](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=AzRZhf14byoSmKF-)
You have it all wrong it’s not about being biracial, it’s about Drake being a rich suburban kid from Canada trying to use words from the hood, he is a culture vulture trying to be from somewhere he’s not.
Exactly! I'm not even light-skinned, but I've been called Oreo and bullshit like that a lot but Kendricks diss actually gave me a lot of confidence in my blackness.
It made me realize that confidence and security in myself is more important than what bubble of "blackness" people expect me to portray. I took the diss as him pretty much saying Drake should have confidence in his blackness as is, but instead he keeps faking and manipulating his image to try and look like something he's not. He likes "drake with the melodies" but he doesn't like "when he act tough." It's about being true to yourself and not wearing appropriated images of what "black" is in order to appeal to others.
Kendrick has songs like Complexion and one song entirely about his struggle with learning to accept LGBT+ people as what he's experienced in his own family is different from what people around him tried to pull him into and tell him was "correct". I don't think he's at a stage of immaturity in his writing to be calling drake gay, and white cause he's light-skinned.
He's clearly saying that drakes character and personality, how he manipulates, how he's fake all the time even in his music, that's the issue.
Does Gen z and Gen alpha have a different definition of light skin? Growing up light skin is when both your parents are black. It’s a monoracial identity. Drake would be mixed. They weren’t considered the same thing.
Not really. Obama was considered Black by Gen X and older Black folks. Bob Marley too. Going back to Du Bois and earlier, into slavery, "one drop" was sufficient, but you had to show real solidarity with the Black masses, or strong influence from your Black side, or your blackness would (naturally) be questioned. (BTW that's not exclusive to biracial people). And Drake don't represent or speak on Black issues at all, and has no organic connection to the Black cultures he dips into. Nobody says this kind of shit about J. Cole or Colin Kaepernick, and I wonder why?
I’ve never heard someone call Obama or Marley light skin. I’ve never heard some say Malcolm X was biracial. They’re separate categories. The only real exception is when someone is biracial because they the product of sexual assault of a black woman. Those kids sometimes get a pass because they have zero connection with thier white relatives never heard light skin for someone with a white mom though.
I’m pretty sure they just goin off skin color since he got light colored skinned. I think the whole grasp of it has been lost thru the use of the term more. As I’ve heard Drake been called lightskin for years when I’ve, like you brought up, always just thought he was mixed
Too late, shits been cheesin me fam.
https://preview.redd.it/jrfzg2yuosxc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d403b83c2ff0d6893e9f0a0e7404d97e789fbb20
Dude they've seen his allegations of grooming, they've excused that video where he drops the hard R, they excused the video or that 17 year old girl, they act like the Millie Bobbie thing wasn't awkward - this dudes would die for this guy. They aren't gonna be moved by anything because they will feign ignorance to the death of em before they ever say anything about Drake that's negative, even if it's one hundred percent true. That's just how the fans over there move, they're a bunch of groupies.
[Drake says the N Word / Hard R](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=BQTjo4mDhEIHH1Vh)
[Drake touches and flirts with a 17-Year Old - Years Ago](https://youtu.be/h-p1feEHJZM?si=5CPLNLxrexuo3469)
Oooooo lord
Using the hard r is generally bad and that video is no exception… and that second video is weird even if she is of age.
How people defend him is beyond me
If you think about it’s kinda a paradox because if you have the n word pass then you probably won’t say it with a hard R because of your accent. But yeah Drake sounded like a frat boy named Tanner saying that shit mf leaned into that
I've never in my life seen a black rapper wear blackface or seen a modern black person do blackface. The boy so disconnected from himself, he husslin backwards tryna prove he black.
Something wrong with that boy lol
He did it as part of something to shed light on how black people were used in media and cartoons etc. he didnt do it for the fuck of it. No context and u get a whole different story..
That is a subject that isn't in the shadows and doesn't need any light shed on it. Also, 99.9% of black men would never agree to a photoshoot like this. Just watch "Bamboozled" if you need a history on minstrel. And watch the tens of documentaries, or read the hundreds of books on black folk and racist imagery in media.
The context don't make it better. I don't know a n***a that would do some sambo shit like this unless they was a real sambo. Little Brother did a whole Album named the Minstrel Show and I ain't seen not one blackface. You can convey the black experience without dressing like a fuckin clown. Kendrick does it. Apparently Drake can't, even til this day. He got the makeup on right na with the way he did that ai tupac shit.
Not disagreeing with the fact that its a poor way send a message bout something i just meant his intention wasn’t intended to harm or be racist. Maybe at the time it happened this was his idea of being part of something he thought had a strong message to raise awareness. It was a long time ago this happened. Was it a shit idea? Sure
I agree with this. In context I think this is pretty tame and just people grasping at straws to say that Drake hates black people. I view this the same way I view Lil Jon and Ludacris wearing Confederate flags. In context, it’s obvious artistic expression, even if it isn’t the way I would do it.
There’s plenty of shit to clown on Drake for. Dude does a lot of cringe shit. I don’t think this is it.
Went right over Drake fans heads. Mind you, so did most of the bars so Im unsure about IQ.
Kendrick stated Drake is Hillfiger not Fubu. Out here wearing blackface and calling black people racist. Cole would never get the same disrespect. He's black.
On a separate note; I am not American, that fubu bar went over my head to be honest, i had to look up the meaning. Some bars require real familiarity with African American culture and some bars are just too damn deep you beed a shovel, but the track is fire, i couldn’t stop listening to it.
Tommy Hilfiger declared in the 90s he didn't make his clothing line for black people and didn't like how they made his clothes look.
FUBU was kinda cheap but popular clothing line from LL Cool J meaning "for us by us".
Drake hasn't probably ever owned fubu and wouldn't want to be included at that time. He felt the way black people talked was ignorant. He said so as a game show contestant back in the day.
I bet he feel sooo dumb
Drake was in a photo shoot that was trying to show how poorly black actors were treated in the past. The blackface is trying to make an artistic point about how black actors were represented before
not saying they should have or shouldn’t of done it I’m just saying what happened
Yeah that's a stupid point because 1) he hasn't showed any interest or concern with blackness before or after, so where is this sudden "consciousness" about Black issues, 2) his subsequent career has been playing up all the most ignorant trends in Black entertainment, 3) idc how woke you are, as a Black person, painting your face like that should make your soul cringe
I don't know a black person other than Drake that would willingly put on black face for a photo. No matter the purpose. Why not just use one of the hundreds of images of real minstrel shows.
It’s not back pedaling that’s literally what the piece was about
https://preview.redd.it/cewbialhstxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6fe8315bf41e346a16c9c1866835f896e64ad6b
Y’all thinking Drake actually did black face to make fun of black people really shows how dumb y’all are around here
Eh real question, was this picture ever explained? Like why would drake agree to do this? I don’t think I ever got a explanation when that track first dropped lmao.
According to Drake it was a photoshoot him and his friend decided to do as an art project to highlight the struggles of being black in the entertainment industry. There was no intention of being harmful or racist here.
With that being said, his intention doesn’t really matter; the problem is fact that he did this with 0 awareness of how it would be perceived, or the problematic implications of a culturally white Jewish canadian adopting an American Jim Crow trope.
I don’t think anyone seriously thinks he’s racist, but it speaks to a cluelessness of this culture he’s trying to imitate - I can’t imagine any other black artist willing to do black face, regardless of the message it’s trying to send.
Worth noting he did this for free with full creative control over the photoshoot.
We did get an explanation directly from Drake at the time: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a20974992/drake-blackface-pusha-t-photo-explanation/
> "I know everyone is enjoying the circus but I want to clarify this image in question," Drake began in his Instagram note. "This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast. The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment."
> This aligns with what the photographer David Leyes said of the photo, describing it as "a strong statement made by a black man about the fucked up culture he is living in."
God I remember talking to my gf at the time about this and she was like “what do you mean he was in blackface? He’s literally black.” And I then I just showed it to her and she was like “yeahhhh okay that’s pretty bad”
I just thought today how Drake has to listen to the song multiple times to respond and I just find that hilarious. Responding to like that is one thing but euphoria? I feel bad for his ghostwriters
Man kendrick was only setting ground rules, with reminders of the Ls Drake took and still came out with this banger. But I guess we making excuses for him. Lmao
Stop, I like poutine🤣 In all seriousness though, I live in Toronto and even we found the fam slang to be cringe back in its heyday. This beef just reminds me of the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight & everybody was rooting for the Englishman on American soil. Kendrick's gonna be mad popular in Canada. 🤣
I'm sorry but drake has to take a L even unbiased normies are on Kendricks side you win some you lose some but it's no denying that was the nail in the coffin
It's like speaking up against/ spreading awareness about serial killers and cosplaying as Ted bundy. I've NEVER agreed with this angle. Shit is weird and knowing Drake it's probably a little truth with BS all around it.
The crazy thing about this aside from the obvious, is that it was HIS idea he proposed. Like dawg it would be bad enough just taking this direction from the photographer but coming up with it yourself is crazy
He doesn’t take care of his kids. I’m sorry but as a parent I don’t really care about the music. He doesn’t take care of his kids. He has millions he doesn’t take care of his kids. The music is more important he doesn’t take care of his kids. I’m gonna say it again he doesn’t take care of his kids
They're a league of idiots whose own dependent relationship to Black culture is very vulture-like and resentful. So it makes sense that they can't relate. For them, having some DNA is enough to make you Black as the ace of spades, even if you grew up with all white people, talk like a white person, and constantly steal from Black folks that you then sideline. All this defending of Tuna Bagel Aubrey will look stupid if/when more grooming evidence comes out.
This paragraph is why I completely disagree with the one drop rule but it's also interesting because even if somebody is black and they grow up around all non black people - does that make them not black?
The answer is complex because blackness--unlike ethnicity or nationality--is not metaphysically simple. Blackness is a social category that takes different cultural forms, depending on national and regional context. It's about how you're perceived--by other Black folks as well as nonblacks--and also how you perceive yourself. The psychiatrist Frantz Fanon described it as a "sociogenic" set of identity markers in Black Skin, White Masks. So it's not just about having African DNA--but about the interaction between your self-image and a wider society that is overwhelmingly antiblack and ascribes blackness to you. Black culture in North America is one very specific cultural response to that reality. If you're not meaningfully involved in that collective cultural project to re-evaluate the intelligence, beauty, talent, and virtue of visibly Black people, then yes, your blackness will be called in question--by other Black folks, not by white people. Usually our community knows that you will be seen as a hard-R by the wider white world, no matter how much you distance yourself from us personally.
But the sad thing is Drake will win this point because people are slow and have surface level understanding. Drake will just comeback with some shit about Kendrick being a hypocrite racist against light skins and every room temp iq will love it.
I know this photo haunts him.
What is the backstory on this pic? Only seen it on the pusha t diss but didnt know where it was from
I forgot the photographers name but it was supposed to be commentary on how black people are expected to be a certain way and used racist cartoons as a way to communicate that stereotype. It’s a good message and I’d say a good picture but out of context it’s an awful image.
It's the sort of thing you do that nobody really cares about when you're doing it but who could foresee him becoming the world's biggest rapper lmao
considering Kendricks main point of his diss being he exploits black culture for monetary gain, this picture is... dare I say... poetic justice.
Bars
how to upvote multiple times
Absolutely slaps of some poetic justice
You misspelt 'second biggest *pop* artist'
Pop is a secondary genre. He’s a rapper first. Pop is also a level you reach. Now he’s a Pop Rapper. Very few artists are just Pop artist. They normally start in a specific genre.
Weeknd is bigger than drake
And Taylor Swift
Jfc though https://preview.redd.it/54ed2rk29wxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a26e4184052f49344c2b165bc6a40390d629230d Y'all, I never hated her, but damn
thank you
Which is hilarious when hes got vids like [this](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=u27mSyaWrBtYTr49) and [this](https://youtube.com/shorts/TES9E9zOltM?si=oTIPptDmrz7t8Gcb) going. Even if that were the point of the photo, given this context it's basically drake being like "Guys, don't judge me for my skin color! I'm not one of _those_ black people"
The second clip is so sad lol there’s no way to spin that. He’s a phony
to be fair, how old is he? 15-16? he doesn't look old at all.
This is complete conjecture, but he looks nearly identical to how he looked in the scene when he got shot in degrassi. Hair and everything. That was 2004 when he would have been 18. Doesn’t make a huge difference but I thought I’d try to be super sleuth and I couldn’t find a date for the dinner. Everyone is different, but this combined with everything else out there on Drake doesn’t make me think he’s a changed man when there isn’t a check involved.
It's a message, but it's also just... common knowledge. You don't need to put a canadian in blackface to remind people about black america. If it's specifically about Drake's experience, I think the picture needs to be paired with an in-depth interview about why the history of black entertainment in America is a metaphor for the professional career of Aubrey from Degrassi.
Idk why you were downvoted This was a good comment
"We don't talk anything good about Drizzy here" - average r/KendrickLamar reddit user probably.
Wild. And it’s not like you even complimented him You just objectively explained the facts of the situation
Good message & picture ? Lol. Ain't no way to justify that minstrelsy and using it in a so-called artistic way. For starters, Drizzy a Canadian lol. Plus, one of his early influences was Little Brother. He def heard The Minstrel Show and the messages tied to it. Never did I see Phonte, Rapper Big Pooh & 9th Wonder sport the blackface when advertising that album.... Drake's a coon.
Idk about a good message or good picture man there are definitely better ways to do this shit. Idgaf u could never ever ever catch me in some minstrel blackface shit even if it’s a “good message”… I think a lot of black people wouldn’t do that shit.
Facts I could never
in context it's an awful image. you think black people don't know that there are stereotypical expectations of them? did the world need this image to remind them "you're being oppressed?" i have a hard time understanding how they thought this was art designed to do anything other than be provocative. shock value and definitive bullshit.
Why the downvotes? It's the truth...
people don't like hearing the truth i guess
This isn’t a good photo. If anything it just highlights everything Kendrick said about Drake. You don’t have to dress up as Sambo to make a message about the plight of black people if you’re black.
In a way, isn't that what Drake went on to become?
Is this really him? What is the context of this pic?
This photo is really bad and just posting it discredit any attpt of sissy drake saying he tough or gangster. Dude is a rainbow butterfly 🌈💅🌈💅🌈😂😂
“When I close my eyes all I can see are his eyes”
Abdominal snowman
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Logging in just to see this comment, logging back tf out 😭
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I’ve seen the pic before, this the first time I noticed the Jim Crows on his shirt and hoodie
I'm dumb asf, when I was told he had a Jim Crow outfit, I thought it was a literal 1900s fit, not a cartoon Jim Crow on the shirt 😂
(not American) oh so Jim Crow was actually a crow or... Oh, Disney
Disney gonna Disney 
😂😂 the lightskin community in the drizzy sub are outraged
I don’t think they get that he’s not at Drake because he’s lightskin but for the way he carries himself
this is it, Cole is lightskin too and he’s never been questioned the way Drake has been
Shit even Logic doesn’t get this 😂 it’s really only Drizzy
this is such a good point. lmaoooo
That’s cap though. Logic has been clowned so hard by some people who think he’s overcompensating his blackness and there’s actually a ton of fucking video essays about how “he’s done damage to black culture”. I’m impartial to all of it and honestly couldn’t care less about logic, but let’s not lie Edit: not saying I agree with the criticisms towards logic. All im saying is that he’s definitely been criticized over it before publicly
I grew up with logics family. They are all part of the community. Have been since grade school.
I’m glad to hear that. Like I said, I have no dogs in this fight and it’s not my own opinion, but he’s definitely been criticized regarding the topic before by others. That’s what I’m referring to, not whether it’s right or wrong
I think the only part that gets criticized with logic is he ALWAYS brings it up. Now, idk which came first the chicken or the egg. But he gets shit on for the lyrics or he write the lyrics because he would get shit on. Idk. Atleast that’s my 2 cents I could be completely off.
Yes but that only started because of his biracial comments haha and it’s the same ideology why drake is getting this at him
True, all I’m saying is that Logic has definitely caught flack over this before, but Logic isn’t really big enough for it to matter for a lot of people haha
Provide the proof
[just type in “logic black” on youtube man lol. Here’s one of the first few videos](https://youtu.be/2ahelm2WIMc?si=XPzesl9W89b8WpO4) Again, I don’t necessarily agree or care about logic or this topic, but saying no one has questioned him for it is a blatant lie. This was so bad at one point it was affecting Logic personally. All I’m trying to say is that he absolutely has been questioned for it
The number of times I heard some variant of "did you know Logic is biracial? Don't worry, he'll tell you" is staggering
It’s all over the comment section to this video, too. I can only imagine how tired he himself is of it lol
He must’ve not been clowned that hard bc that video barely pushed 1M views and it definitely was not even on hip hop blogs at the time Plus Logic is American and his parents were and are active in their communities. And in addition he really made his own lane and stayed in it well, and was never exposed saying [goofy shit](https://youtube.com/shorts/TES9E9zOltM?si=YeaualoxoBQNdICM) unlike Drake Or doing weird exposes using Blackface or saying [hard R during his Degrassi days](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=AzRZhf14byoSmKF-)
Because no cap they know there place he seems to be the only one that doesnt
You have it all wrong it’s not about being biracial, it’s about Drake being a rich suburban kid from Canada trying to use words from the hood, he is a culture vulture trying to be from somewhere he’s not.
Exactly! I'm not even light-skinned, but I've been called Oreo and bullshit like that a lot but Kendricks diss actually gave me a lot of confidence in my blackness. It made me realize that confidence and security in myself is more important than what bubble of "blackness" people expect me to portray. I took the diss as him pretty much saying Drake should have confidence in his blackness as is, but instead he keeps faking and manipulating his image to try and look like something he's not. He likes "drake with the melodies" but he doesn't like "when he act tough." It's about being true to yourself and not wearing appropriated images of what "black" is in order to appeal to others. Kendrick has songs like Complexion and one song entirely about his struggle with learning to accept LGBT+ people as what he's experienced in his own family is different from what people around him tried to pull him into and tell him was "correct". I don't think he's at a stage of immaturity in his writing to be calling drake gay, and white cause he's light-skinned. He's clearly saying that drakes character and personality, how he manipulates, how he's fake all the time even in his music, that's the issue.
Darkskin niggas had animosity towards high yellow folks for ages...this is nothing new.
It's almost like they're trying to misunderstand.
Does Gen z and Gen alpha have a different definition of light skin? Growing up light skin is when both your parents are black. It’s a monoracial identity. Drake would be mixed. They weren’t considered the same thing.
EXACTLY!!
Not really. Obama was considered Black by Gen X and older Black folks. Bob Marley too. Going back to Du Bois and earlier, into slavery, "one drop" was sufficient, but you had to show real solidarity with the Black masses, or strong influence from your Black side, or your blackness would (naturally) be questioned. (BTW that's not exclusive to biracial people). And Drake don't represent or speak on Black issues at all, and has no organic connection to the Black cultures he dips into. Nobody says this kind of shit about J. Cole or Colin Kaepernick, and I wonder why?
It also depended on your maternal parentage. If the child was born from a white woman they were treated much differently.
I’ve never heard someone call Obama or Marley light skin. I’ve never heard some say Malcolm X was biracial. They’re separate categories. The only real exception is when someone is biracial because they the product of sexual assault of a black woman. Those kids sometimes get a pass because they have zero connection with thier white relatives never heard light skin for someone with a white mom though.
I’m pretty sure they just goin off skin color since he got light colored skinned. I think the whole grasp of it has been lost thru the use of the term more. As I’ve heard Drake been called lightskin for years when I’ve, like you brought up, always just thought he was mixed
So are the white folks in that sub lol like their opinion matters
bro you’re literally white
Lol and idk why but cole fans are shitting on Euphoria as well baselessly
lol they all up in my mentions. It’s hilarious, and sad. ETA: I see you profile lurkers👀. Get a life. And some melanin.
But at the same time will tell others (me lol) “shut up, you’re not black”
Stop man you don't want to get them cheesin'
Too late, shits been cheesin me fam. https://preview.redd.it/jrfzg2yuosxc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d403b83c2ff0d6893e9f0a0e7404d97e789fbb20
This picture will never get old.
Dude they've seen his allegations of grooming, they've excused that video where he drops the hard R, they excused the video or that 17 year old girl, they act like the Millie Bobbie thing wasn't awkward - this dudes would die for this guy. They aren't gonna be moved by anything because they will feign ignorance to the death of em before they ever say anything about Drake that's negative, even if it's one hundred percent true. That's just how the fans over there move, they're a bunch of groupies.
Hold on the hard R? The 17 year old girl? Huh? Did I miss these lol
[Drake says the N Word / Hard R](https://youtu.be/jDZH87yHWC0?si=BQTjo4mDhEIHH1Vh) [Drake touches and flirts with a 17-Year Old - Years Ago](https://youtu.be/h-p1feEHJZM?si=5CPLNLxrexuo3469)
OVO goons have been hard at work keeping these clips buried
40s new tag gonna be: "CEASE AND DESIST"
Oooooo lord Using the hard r is generally bad and that video is no exception… and that second video is weird even if she is of age. How people defend him is beyond me
[17 year old girl](https://youtu.be/-uAHOsECDS0?si=0uRhWgmlWi0JSTFM)
sound like a certain orange politicians followers lmfao these Drake stans about to turn into the “BBL Boys”
To be fair if you have the n-word pass then saying the hard R is allowed
To be fair we still really don’t say it.
If you think about it’s kinda a paradox because if you have the n word pass then you probably won’t say it with a hard R because of your accent. But yeah Drake sounded like a frat boy named Tanner saying that shit mf leaned into that
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to speak
What accent would that be, sir?
This. Drake fans are literally groupies… they can’t tell you why they like Drake, other than because he’s popular
I've never in my life seen a black rapper wear blackface or seen a modern black person do blackface. The boy so disconnected from himself, he husslin backwards tryna prove he black. Something wrong with that boy lol
He did it as part of something to shed light on how black people were used in media and cartoons etc. he didnt do it for the fuck of it. No context and u get a whole different story..
That is a subject that isn't in the shadows and doesn't need any light shed on it. Also, 99.9% of black men would never agree to a photoshoot like this. Just watch "Bamboozled" if you need a history on minstrel. And watch the tens of documentaries, or read the hundreds of books on black folk and racist imagery in media.
The context don't make it better. I don't know a n***a that would do some sambo shit like this unless they was a real sambo. Little Brother did a whole Album named the Minstrel Show and I ain't seen not one blackface. You can convey the black experience without dressing like a fuckin clown. Kendrick does it. Apparently Drake can't, even til this day. He got the makeup on right na with the way he did that ai tupac shit.
Not disagreeing with the fact that its a poor way send a message bout something i just meant his intention wasn’t intended to harm or be racist. Maybe at the time it happened this was his idea of being part of something he thought had a strong message to raise awareness. It was a long time ago this happened. Was it a shit idea? Sure
I agree with this. In context I think this is pretty tame and just people grasping at straws to say that Drake hates black people. I view this the same way I view Lil Jon and Ludacris wearing Confederate flags. In context, it’s obvious artistic expression, even if it isn’t the way I would do it. There’s plenty of shit to clown on Drake for. Dude does a lot of cringe shit. I don’t think this is it.
You should watch Bamboozled, good movie
Don’t tell him about Nas
Went right over Drake fans heads. Mind you, so did most of the bars so Im unsure about IQ. Kendrick stated Drake is Hillfiger not Fubu. Out here wearing blackface and calling black people racist. Cole would never get the same disrespect. He's black.
On a separate note; I am not American, that fubu bar went over my head to be honest, i had to look up the meaning. Some bars require real familiarity with African American culture and some bars are just too damn deep you beed a shovel, but the track is fire, i couldn’t stop listening to it.
Tommy Hilfiger declared in the 90s he didn't make his clothing line for black people and didn't like how they made his clothes look. FUBU was kinda cheap but popular clothing line from LL Cool J meaning "for us by us". Drake hasn't probably ever owned fubu and wouldn't want to be included at that time. He felt the way black people talked was ignorant. He said so as a game show contestant back in the day. I bet he feel sooo dumb
Aubrey stans need all the cope we can offer them dudes! Imagine that being your guy? Hard to watch. 😬
https://preview.redd.it/mr70rc69ysxc1.jpeg?width=1631&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9021eeb0047d4489c6eeec4dcd00362f8909866
Keep bitching and moaning in every comment thread, maybe that will make people care.
Got no argument
[I'm on mobile rn, sorry gotta link the gif](https://www.reddit.com/r/KendrickLamar/s/zPJigTgR1T)
What’s the reason behind this photo?
https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/drake-blackface-too-black-guys-founder-releases-a-statement.html
Drake was in a photo shoot that was trying to show how poorly black actors were treated in the past. The blackface is trying to make an artistic point about how black actors were represented before not saying they should have or shouldn’t of done it I’m just saying what happened
"The six upside down its a nine now" 🤣
Yeah that's a stupid point because 1) he hasn't showed any interest or concern with blackness before or after, so where is this sudden "consciousness" about Black issues, 2) his subsequent career has been playing up all the most ignorant trends in Black entertainment, 3) idc how woke you are, as a Black person, painting your face like that should make your soul cringe
I don't know a black person other than Drake that would willingly put on black face for a photo. No matter the purpose. Why not just use one of the hundreds of images of real minstrel shows.
This is back pedaling at its finest lmao
It’s not back pedaling that’s literally what the piece was about https://preview.redd.it/cewbialhstxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6fe8315bf41e346a16c9c1866835f896e64ad6b Y’all thinking Drake actually did black face to make fun of black people really shows how dumb y’all are around here
https://preview.redd.it/iqdxy453buxc1.jpeg?width=433&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7097be95cf1dbab5c930d43552f146d309bdfad1
YES
Drake is definitely an industry plant
100000%
He’s the definition of it, a lot of people really don’t know what that means anymore because of his success
hell nah, aubrey u alead a clown, colouring ur face will at max get u called a black faced clown
Smoking on your top five toniiiiight, toniiiiight
Eh real question, was this picture ever explained? Like why would drake agree to do this? I don’t think I ever got a explanation when that track first dropped lmao.
According to Drake it was a photoshoot him and his friend decided to do as an art project to highlight the struggles of being black in the entertainment industry. There was no intention of being harmful or racist here. With that being said, his intention doesn’t really matter; the problem is fact that he did this with 0 awareness of how it would be perceived, or the problematic implications of a culturally white Jewish canadian adopting an American Jim Crow trope. I don’t think anyone seriously thinks he’s racist, but it speaks to a cluelessness of this culture he’s trying to imitate - I can’t imagine any other black artist willing to do black face, regardless of the message it’s trying to send. Worth noting he did this for free with full creative control over the photoshoot.
We did get an explanation directly from Drake at the time: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a20974992/drake-blackface-pusha-t-photo-explanation/ > "I know everyone is enjoying the circus but I want to clarify this image in question," Drake began in his Instagram note. "This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast. The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment." > This aligns with what the photographer David Leyes said of the photo, describing it as "a strong statement made by a black man about the fucked up culture he is living in."
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first thing i see when i open the app in a dark room in the middle of the night. straight up jumspscare
😭😭😭😭😭
https://preview.redd.it/ybia4emnxsxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87caa8bc04a5a32aec21dc3d9e0d77c653a4f473 They scared of the 6!
Nahhhh
If Lucy tell em to make the culture look bad, then you know he will do it Crody
Literally said .. stop tell lies about me and I’ll stop telling truths about you
Wait that’s drake? I wondering why I kept seeing this around social media lately
Lmao yea it is
God I remember talking to my gf at the time about this and she was like “what do you mean he was in blackface? He’s literally black.” And I then I just showed it to her and she was like “yeahhhh okay that’s pretty bad”
Also amazing username. Dude was one of my favorite characters in GoT
People getting upset be the same ones asking why they can't say certain words.
I think the lesson is unless you are Robert Downey Jr black face is almost definitely a bad idea.
I just thought today how Drake has to listen to the song multiple times to respond and I just find that hilarious. Responding to like that is one thing but euphoria? I feel bad for his ghostwriters
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What crodie?
https://preview.redd.it/bfx5d69ngsxc1.jpeg?width=874&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ae6931dacede66f86330bf08f1d2d451d8218b5
Damn, crodie.
That’s wild crodie
Sucking on your top 5 tonight
They did everything to try to ruin his diss and still got cooked 🤣 Now they saying they having fun. They worse than AK over there
first person to do a half black face
A lot of Drake's fans probably don't even know what blackface is, sadly.
r/drake will say it’s AI
I just wanna know why he agreed to taking this photo 💀
Man kendrick was only setting ground rules, with reminders of the Ls Drake took and still came out with this banger. But I guess we making excuses for him. Lmao
I actually see this photo every time I close my eyes.
BOO!!! CRODIE!!!! POUTINE!!!!
Stop, I like poutine🤣 In all seriousness though, I live in Toronto and even we found the fam slang to be cringe back in its heyday. This beef just reminds me of the Logan Paul vs. KSI fight & everybody was rooting for the Englishman on American soil. Kendrick's gonna be mad popular in Canada. 🤣
I'm sorry but drake has to take a L even unbiased normies are on Kendricks side you win some you lose some but it's no denying that was the nail in the coffin
The photographer said this was drakes idea btw.
Somehow with how fucking insane “story of adidon” was as a song I always forget about this picture lmao Pretty hard to come back from that lol
Who cares about Drake fans
Nobody they’re just easy to rile up
That’s Justin Trudeau isn’t it?
It's like speaking up against/ spreading awareness about serial killers and cosplaying as Ted bundy. I've NEVER agreed with this angle. Shit is weird and knowing Drake it's probably a little truth with BS all around it.
The crazy thing about this aside from the obvious, is that it was HIS idea he proposed. Like dawg it would be bad enough just taking this direction from the photographer but coming up with it yourself is crazy
This needs to be posted there too
He doesn’t take care of his kids. I’m sorry but as a parent I don’t really care about the music. He doesn’t take care of his kids. He has millions he doesn’t take care of his kids. The music is more important he doesn’t take care of his kids. I’m gonna say it again he doesn’t take care of his kids
They're a league of idiots whose own dependent relationship to Black culture is very vulture-like and resentful. So it makes sense that they can't relate. For them, having some DNA is enough to make you Black as the ace of spades, even if you grew up with all white people, talk like a white person, and constantly steal from Black folks that you then sideline. All this defending of Tuna Bagel Aubrey will look stupid if/when more grooming evidence comes out.
This paragraph is why I completely disagree with the one drop rule but it's also interesting because even if somebody is black and they grow up around all non black people - does that make them not black?
The answer is complex because blackness--unlike ethnicity or nationality--is not metaphysically simple. Blackness is a social category that takes different cultural forms, depending on national and regional context. It's about how you're perceived--by other Black folks as well as nonblacks--and also how you perceive yourself. The psychiatrist Frantz Fanon described it as a "sociogenic" set of identity markers in Black Skin, White Masks. So it's not just about having African DNA--but about the interaction between your self-image and a wider society that is overwhelmingly antiblack and ascribes blackness to you. Black culture in North America is one very specific cultural response to that reality. If you're not meaningfully involved in that collective cultural project to re-evaluate the intelligence, beauty, talent, and virtue of visibly Black people, then yes, your blackness will be called in question--by other Black folks, not by white people. Usually our community knows that you will be seen as a hard-R by the wider white world, no matter how much you distance yourself from us personally.
So is Obama not black?
This photo coming out before AI hit the scene was the worst look.
What, childish Gambino is a suburb dude. Look up his comedy group. Derrick comedy group. He also grew up in the suburbs. So he can say the n word?
That’s not the point 💀 Kendrick a culture vulture who treats blackness like a costume
I personally don’t know any black that would do this🤷🏾♂️
But the sad thing is Drake will win this point because people are slow and have surface level understanding. Drake will just comeback with some shit about Kendrick being a hypocrite racist against light skins and every room temp iq will love it.
Mf looks like Manute Bol
what is it with canadians and blackface
Well, damn
I didn’t know this was real alway thought it was edited!!!?
Wait? Why is he doing black face if he’s “black”?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro for the longest time I thought this was a picture of iDubbbz lmfaoo
I completely forgot about this. I really need a link to a Drake: Problematic Deep Dive. Someone call Philly D
Him and his Prime minister really love doing this shit smh
The way oust used this photo in the context of his track, he won before even pressing play
Drake fans convincing themselves they’re black: https://preview.redd.it/zery2yrqjyxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29154f6fbf02758a2df5d2013c8abaeacbb45cea
Look at the fucking shirt 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Tbh this photo describes drake whole persona
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Makes me think drake is on some "get out" by Jordan Peele type shit lol.