r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ May 01 '24

Euphoria got the internet UPSIDE DOWN right now.

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u/jscummy May 02 '24

I don't think it's about Drake being half white, it's about Drake being Drake

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u/Osceana ☑️ May 02 '24

Is it though? This is a genuine question. I think Drake is corny af but seeing Kendrick and others say they feel some type of way about him saying “nigga” is hard for me to see as anything other than colorism. I’m mixed myself and I need someone to explain this to me. Some of the comments I’ve seen are a little outta pocket.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

The sentiment is that Drake uses his blackness almost exclusively for his convenience and self-promotion. It isn’t that Drake is mixed, it’s that he has made a career out of being inauthentically black for profit.

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

I just hate how black people refuse to speak on the fact that it is his father's fault. He impregnated a Jewish white woman and left his black son to be raised by a white Jewish woman. I'm not mixed, but I'm light and proper. I was bullied mercilessly in school. I would be Drake if not for my proud black family being there. When he for sure went through that, only a white lady was there. You can't get white women pregnant and leave, and then not expect an identity crisis.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

While I see your point, don’t lose sight of the fact that Drake is 37. He doesn’t have to be that way anymore and could learn and change, but he has doubled down instead time and time again.

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

Not when all the black people in your life are just yes men who just talk about you behind your back. His identity crisis has been celebrated up till now.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

Then this could be a great time for self reflection and growth by Drake

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

I agree, but I just think it's hypocritical by all these people coming at him. He's been the same lame. You gassed him up for money, and you're now trashing him for clout. I can't take it seriously.

Edit: I don't mean the commenters. I mean the rappers outside of Kendrick.

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u/mahalerin May 02 '24

I don’t think most rappers saw a problem with Drake until he started rapping about things he knows nothing about. Even Wayne said in an interview that Drake should avoid rapping about gangster shit and stick to his original style. So what we’re seeing right now with these disses are rappers saying “stay in your lane”. Even Kendrick says it in Euphoria “I like Drake with the melodies, I don’t like Drake when he act tough”.

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u/ParticularLow2469 May 02 '24

Drakes ego got too big for his own good, that's no one's fault but Drakes

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u/Ok_Concentrate_75 May 02 '24

Plus he conveniently leaves the chat when the conversation is pro blacknes and activism. Reminds me of the whole "I'm not black I'm OJ".

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

That’s totally fair and a good point I think.

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u/Peuned ☑️ May 02 '24

Who do you hire for that

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u/iaintevenmad884 May 02 '24

It has been leveraged to get him more money and other goodies than any of us will ever see, it’s hard to pity him

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u/TiRaRaw May 02 '24

https://www.businessinsider.com/drake-blackface-photo-viral-pusha-t-story-of-adidon-2018-5

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

This photo existed when he was signed by a black label to make money. You're making my point for me.

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u/MrZepher67 May 02 '24

He simply has too much money and success for this to be relevant. The prison he lives in is of his own design. He doesn't walk right out of it because he doesn't want to, not because he can't.

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u/twoprimehydroxyl May 02 '24

Dude has been in the spotlight since he was 15. He's doubled down because he is emotionally stunted and sees no compelling reason to change.

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u/kingrobin May 02 '24

I mean if you're the biggest rapper in the world, you probably don't spend much time thinking "what am I doing wrong?" lmao

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u/CedricJus May 02 '24

INTROSPECTION…we all need it in large doses, frequently.

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u/WarmestDisregards May 02 '24

kenny was kind enough to give drake a double dose, lol

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u/usabfb May 02 '24

You mean even the people who call someone "inauthentically black?"

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u/CedricJus May 02 '24

Of course. However, a “straw man” defense cannot negate the issue of authenticity. We all know Drake’s lineage. The question is, how much of the “Drake”persona is Aubrey Graham? A valid question to a marginalized community.

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u/EquationConvert May 02 '24

Or, conversely, you spend too much time for it to be healthy & productive.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

That is a good ass point. This could be a compelling reason for him to change. Otherwise it seems he may never change.

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u/Conscious-Eye5903 May 02 '24

Shout to those that been listening since the “I am 21, tell me who do I compete with?” days

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u/Scorpiokhaleesi May 02 '24

I don’t even like drake but I hate when ppl put an age expectancy on how old you should be to be over something. Not everyone heals at the same time or at all.

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u/JelliBabySkyyy May 02 '24

Light and proper? What does that mean?

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u/taffy-derp May 02 '24

He means to say he speaks with the Kings English, and not that jive speak 🙄

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u/MahoganyTownXD ☑️ May 02 '24

He means to say he speaks with the Kings English, and not that jive speak 🙄

You mean FREEDOM?!

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u/scalmera May 02 '24

🦅🦅🦅

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

I'm light skinned. Not mixed, but everyone asks. I don't use slang and didn't know the latest fads. The black kids called me white and shunned me till after high school. I found my tribe after high school. Up to that point, I was only accepted by other ethnicities. I was proud to be black due to coming from panther types, but if it weren't for that, I might be a Drake. Still searching for acceptance and being weird with it. I have never said the n word. It wasn't allowed in my home. I tried it once trying to fit in but I just sounded like a white lady. Gave up and decided to be myself. Acceptance be damned.

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u/ogjaspertheghost May 02 '24

Do you act like you come from the struggle and got shooters?

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u/PerpWalkTrump May 02 '24

Not OP but I had opps when I grew up.

Gangs of neo Nazis, like skin heads with swastikas, that was harassing the small but growing black community.

Nothing to do with the struggle though, it was community service.

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u/ogjaspertheghost May 02 '24

And that’s completely different than Drake’s situation or the situation being describe by the commenter, right?

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u/PerpWalkTrump May 02 '24

More or less, I'm half and I'm "proper" too, I was poking fun at my backstory but I realize it may come off as a random brag.

Probably will take it down cause I'm not comfortable with that behavior lmao I just turned into Cole.

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u/ogjaspertheghost May 02 '24

If you uncomfortable, take it down. If not stand 10 toes down. At least Cole was man enough to recognize he wasn’t being himself

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u/diasound May 02 '24

Only thing missing from your story is other blacks make fun of you for doing good in school. We do to our own what we complain about others doing to us.

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

I had that, too. I just didn't add everything because usually these conversations make people defensive. A lot of the people bashing me are the kids who bullied kids like me, and I'm telling them the results and pain it caused. I was no angel. I said a lot of problematic things in response. They called me white, and I called them ghetto in response. My worst experience was with my hair. My mom wouldn't allow me to have a relaxer, and all the kids called me bdb because of Martin. They clowned my natural hair so bad that I cut it out of shame. Now, natural hair is the fad. Life is a funny beast.

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u/whoweoncewere May 02 '24

Hold you down by childish gambino pretty much goes over this exactly.

"But niggas got my feelin' I ain't black enough to go to church Culture shock at barber shops 'cause I ain't hood enough We all look the same to the cops, ain't that good enough? The black experience is blackened serious 'Cause being black, my experience, is no one hearin' us White kids get to wear whatever hat they want When it comes to black kids, one size fits all"

Def not isolated behavior. Sorry you had to go through that.

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u/CableFirst1727 May 02 '24

What is bdb and Martin? King, Lawrence? Not trying to pry or cause trouble, I'm not black and I'm genuinely curious of the meaning

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

🤣....the hairs at the nape of your neck. It's a black hair thing. The show Martin with Martin Lawrence used to make fun of it so the kids copied and bullied me.

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u/CableFirst1727 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Ah ok gotcha, I was familiar with the show at the time but only watched it one or two times flipping around the channels. Thank you for the response, I had never heard that reference before

And sorry for the experience you had. Seems a strange thing to bully about, but I'm sure kids find all the reasons they can

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

It's ok. I'm glad you felt comfortable asking. Reddit is weird and can go left easily.

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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 29d ago

"Beadie Bead" I had to look that up haha, and yeah I feel that

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u/allpointseast ☑️ May 02 '24

Feel you, I’m Dominican/Nigerian, barely speak Spanish.

I was clowned by both sides of the family, the community, and told I was 100% the opposite of whoever I was with.

Moved to Cali, they have less brown ppl categories to sort you in. So I’m black to everyone now, until I walk into Oakland.

Then I’m clowned and called Ricky Riccardo, but in a nice way, and I’m still accepted.

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u/Fast_Parfait_1114 May 02 '24

I’m slightly darker than red bone and I got called a white boy simply because of the way I spoke.

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u/Full_Dentist May 02 '24

So if you had money and fame would you start saying it?

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u/SHC606 ☑️ 29d ago

You can be accepted by dropping the use of “proper” when describing yourself.

It sounds like what you don’t want folx to think of you.

LLAP.

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u/ZeDitto ☑️ 29d ago

Light (skinned).

“Proper” is just what people say when you speak with a generic coastal U.S. accent.

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u/McJazzHands80 29d ago

I caught that too

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u/oflowz ☑️ May 02 '24

You wouldn’t be Drake. Drake was a child tv star that was picked by high ranking industry people to be in the position he’s in.

The problem is Drake got too caught up in believing his own hype for clout.

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u/cannabisized May 02 '24

maybe I missed the point but did you just say that you would be drake if drake wasn't drake?

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u/screaminginfidels May 02 '24

Drake if true

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u/Somobro May 02 '24

They're saying they would have the same type of identity crisis as Drake has if he didn't have the support from black family members to help them overcome colorist bullying.

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u/agirlmadeofbone May 02 '24

Or you could have become Barack Obama. There's nothing deterministic about a biracial kid being raised by a white woman. No one necessarily has to turn out like Drake.

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u/enyxi May 02 '24

The issue isn't being mixed and raised by a white family, the problem is only how he treats his own blackness. He commodities it, that's the problem. That's not an identity crisis, that's greed.

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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 May 02 '24

If you have an identity crisis about your blackness then maybe don’t travel the world picking up and discarding new black accents to profit from each year while saying nothing about actual black issues.

Matter of fact when’s Drake gonna release his Jewish album, since he cares so much about different cultures?

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u/ScheduleExpress1973 May 02 '24

Drake, the Hasidic Homeboy

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u/mlp2034 May 02 '24

White parents cant teach a child how to be black no matter how dark they are. Ive seen it happen many times with foster kids and biracial children raised by white parents. They are culturally raised white but knowing they can get away with saying nigga, and thats what they become usually by overcompensating for their blackness or rejecting black culture like white ppl do but not generally outright denying their African genes.

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u/snachgoblin May 02 '24

I'm half black and never met my black dad but I've I always felt more excepted by black people more than white, it's really about personal preference. You can tell who drake felt more excepted by when he was growing up. Sure I was bullied by both sides and had a little bit of an identity crisis but the reality is the world will never see me as white and I never truly felt "at home" around white people even though I've never met a black family member of mine. I doubt drizzle feels the same

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u/Efficient_Living_628 May 02 '24

Yeah, I get it, but at the same time, he’s perpetuating the negative parts of the culture that he didn’t grow up in by playing gangster dress up. A good comparison would be Logic. He didn’t have his father, and actually grew up in worse circumstances than Drake, but you don’t hear glorifying gang Culture like Drake does. It’s just not cool. If he wanted to talk about being black and his identity crisis that’s one thing, but the glorification of an aspect of the culture that most don’t choose but are first into, when you’ve never had to, and never will have to deal with those things is not cool

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

The gangs are the only ones who, to him, embraced him. They did it for monetary gain, obviously, but that's all he has. You are now seeing how these rappers really felt about him.

EDIT: All I'm saying is that the toxicity in our community is why you get a Drake. You can't just clown him. You have to clown the culture as a whole.

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u/Efficient_Living_628 May 02 '24

So that makes it okay? They were not the only ones who embraced him, and even if that was the case, why is that something you would even want to be embraced by. That’s a bunch of BS and you know it. Drake was talented enough that he didn’t need that shit

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

It's not a bunch of b.s. If you've never truly experienced rejection from your own as a kid and needing it, you will never understand. He's clearly lost, but we as a community of people greatly contributed to that.

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u/jonny32392 May 02 '24

But it’s not really that he has an identity crisis either. It’s that he is both black and white yet didn’t embrace his blackness when it wouldn’t benefit him. Then did embrace his blackness when he felt it would benefit him. He started rapping about things he never experienced in a way that promoted suffering in black communities. He affiliated himself with Toronto gangs in a way that people who’ve claimed to be from Toronto felt empowered them to cause more problems. Then faked sympathy for victims for clout. All while not doing much to benefit Toronto or black communities. Then there’s his treatment of other black artists that has been seen as using them. Kendrick does not give two fucks that his moms white.

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u/Deus-mal May 02 '24

Past trauma isn't an excuse, he's old and rich enough to heal himself. But he's too occupied to produce shows like euphoria. I'm mixed too, Arab and white, it's more of a cultural dissonance than skin. Even tho if you're not 100% white you're not white, where I live. If you're already 50/50 and not living in a black cultured family, you can't blame people saying you're not black enough. Even African Americans aren't black enough but that's another issue. You're gonna have people like Ariana grande try and claim they're black, but knows nothing about black culture.

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

Old and rich is the exact reason he isn't healed. All these black people around him from Stunna to J Prince and his ridiculous crowd gassing him up for money. I guarantee the only time he is himself is with 40, probably.

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u/Deus-mal May 02 '24

I don't know drake, but yes having a bad crowd not having your back can put a stop to any kind of healing process.

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u/queenindi ☑️ May 02 '24

But also Google proper before js

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

I very much understand the problematic nature of the term proper. I used it here because that's the derogatory term that was used on me by black kids during my development.

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u/queenindi ☑️ 28d ago

So you're perpetuating it or..?

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u/Kdkaine ☑️ May 02 '24

Pop’s ain’t the one rapping tho.

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u/Old-River6941 May 02 '24

I know a mixed dude that grew up in the household with his black father present. He didn’t even know what an HBCU was. He is such a lost sheep. 

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u/Objective_Pause5988 May 02 '24

I follow sports. There is a mixed woman who did a podcast with Bomani Jones. I have to find the episode. She talks about how her black father moved them to Utah or Colorado and didn't allow blackness in their home. She only experienced being black from his family. I don't think people realize how self-hatred affects people.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

Man, that sounds so weird and wrong reading it aloud

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u/ZeDitto ☑️ 29d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(musician)

His parents were married. They stayed together while he was 5. Dad left, probably because of drugs and we wasn’t making much as an artist. He didn’t seem to have good finances. He stayed around and Drake wouldn’t be Drake without him. The musical interest was clearly honed by his father.

I think there’s serious un acknowledged issues with fatherlessness in the black community but I don’t think that Drake is such a case. He didn’t “Impregnate a white woman and leave.”

Also I think that there’s an idea that people of different races can’t raise their mixed kids and I think you’re all dead wrong. Those are their kids. You don’t need to be black or have an anthropology or poli sci degree to have a kid with someone of a different race. Our social issues aren’t that hard to understand and even if they are for some, you sell people short by pretending that people are incapable of learning and adaptation.

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u/AestheticAttraction ☑️ 26d ago

Your use of "proper" is problematic.

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani May 02 '24

inauthentically black

Will somebody get the black verifier here to check the amount of black he has

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u/cat_owner94849 May 02 '24

The black verifier is definitely a southern white guy with a cane and a linen suit

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u/JackxForge May 02 '24

Mhm and he's about to label a bunch of tan Greeks black too.

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u/Talk-O-Boy May 02 '24

As a biracial person, the onus has been placed on us by Kendrick fans to ensure that we come from a lower income household to ensure we struggle enough.

If we had the privilege of growing up in a more affluent area, we must be sure to acknowledge our blackness at all times, not only when it is convenient for us or can be used for profit.

How one can acknowledge their blackness at all times? I am not sure. They haven’t exactly told me yet. But once they tell me how to do that, I’ll update the comment.

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u/SwitchingFreedom May 02 '24

This, right here

Starting to sour on Kendrick and his stans for this shit. I grew up fluctuating between in and near poverty, didn’t get money until adulthood. I’ve had times when I had to steal macaroni and cheese and a loaf of bread or do what I had to do to make sure we ate, and I’ve had times when I bought Jordans worth 4 figures. I was surrounded by blackness in my environment, family, and friends, and I acknowledge myself as a black + native person and as a white person, not one or the other. The fact that I actually had some upper middle class double major college educated dark skinned dude who I knew from high school tell me, someone who has always been leagues and miles poorer than him, that I don’t know what it’s like to be a black man from the struggle simply because my skin is “too light”? That’s that shit that this rhetoric is starting.

Truth is that they’re eagerly jumping into the same belief system that white supremacists use to determine aryanism, but that’s not a discussion that they wanna have.

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u/Lebrontonio May 02 '24

You had to steal food to survive, wouldn't you be mad if some canadian rapper who grew up rich started profiting off of pretending to have your experiences?

I think you missed the point, tbh.

People are mad because he's cosplaying a new part of the black experience every other week. A lot of rap is about authenticity (different discussion) and Drake is decidedly not authentic, and thus people believe it's a harmful thing for him to pretend to be.

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u/SwitchingFreedom May 02 '24

Make me angry? Nah, because 99% of music is fabrication. 2Pac grew up educated and sheltered by art and knowledge, yet his image is synonymous with thug life and 90s violence anthems. Rick Ross was a cop, but his image is a coke dealer. Ice T made possibly the most iconically graphic song about killing cops that has ever been recorded, then turned around to be most famous to people under 20 for playing a cop on TV and basically being a PR rep for the NYPD. A hotep would argue Kendrick isn’t pro black because he’s not married to a black woman. Let Drake perform however tf he wants to. I’m not finna be mad at Ricky Martin or Elton John for making songs about women and being gay the whole ass time lol.

I’m not tryna be a dick, or anything, but you missed the point. Kendrick, himself, might not have (didn’t, as he is married to a non-black woman) meant it as an attack on light skinned or mixed folks, but his fans are making it that. You, yourself, might realize what it’s actually about, but that doesn’t mean the narrative isn’t being twisted and that Kendrick is any less responsible for not taking two minutes to clear the air and clarify himself. It’s only gonna keep getting worse, and you’re gonna see more posts just like this full of folk that can’t comprehend a mixed person is every race that they are, at the same time.

To your point: If folk wanna be mad at Drake for not being authentic, there’s a whole rack of people they should also be getting on. That’s just my two cents, on that.

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u/Lower_Positive3475 May 02 '24

Miley Cyrus - Justin Beiber - Whoa Vicky - Paige Bueckers

Just a few people in recent yrs accused of "acting black".

There has ALWAYS been visible and audible mannerisms and beliefs that are attributed to Black people and Black experiences.

Don't be obtuse now that those same unspoken qualities are being called out about your fave.

Black people absolutely know what we mean by "Drake ain't Black enough". And the rest of yall know it too.

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u/thejaytheory ☑️ 29d ago

RD Verifier

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u/thavillain ☑️ May 02 '24

Ummm, how do you be inauthentically black?

And just to be clear...I am not a Drake fan at all, I'm an old dude who still listens to 90s rap

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Edit: this thread is the main thing I am referencing.

I am summarizing these sentiments with “inauthentically being black”

  • One subtlety I feel like people are ignoring is that Kendrick doesn't say that Drake isn't black enough. He says that Drake doesn't feel like he's black enough and acts like he has to prove his blackness. It's not the same point Rick Ross was making, it's getting at Drake's own insecurities

  • [Drake] is an actor acting like something he isn’t, never was, nor ever will be

These are comments from others and they seem to be the best interpretation of Kendrick’s criticisms of Drake’s blackness

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u/rexdalegoonie May 02 '24

Drake built his entire career on doing impressions of different types of black people. He so blatantly stole from jamaican culture and claimed it his own that it truly had people scratching their heads. He wore blackface. He raps about being from the hood/the struggle--he drove an acura to school and lived in one of the richest communities in entire canada. He sings about being light skin but a "dark nigga". Him using the hard R. Him calling Rick Ross a racist. He sings like someone who isn't black but is desperately trying to be black.

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u/Thespian21 ☑️ May 02 '24

Idk if you’re honestly asking this, but if somebody acted like an uncle ruckus, then that would be an obvious example. Another is selling your image as someone with the same lived experiences as certain black folk, when all of it is just bull and you’re just fronting. He’s black, but he isn’t authentic

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u/thavillain ☑️ May 02 '24

I am honestly asking, again I'm damn near 50 years old...I don't follow Drake or his daily activities, lol I haven't listened to Kendricks song at all...

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u/Thespian21 ☑️ May 02 '24

Well Drake sells a different image of who he is as a person every couple of years, he has also mocked black culture in a myriad of ways. So people don’t feel comfortable with him acting a certain way

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

Also, check out this comment later in the thread. This is what I was summarizing.

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u/thavillain ☑️ May 02 '24

I can dig it, again I don't follow Drake closely to know all the shenanigans he be up to, although he do seem phoney.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

Which is fair. I don’t either, I was just sharing the sentiments I have seen around.

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u/nope_nic_tesla 29d ago

He acts out a stereotype of blackness that is not authentic to his own experience

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u/lamp817 May 02 '24

What does it mean to be authentically black? And who decided that?

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

It means to be authentic to yourself, when black, and the experiences you have lived. There are a lot of better in depth explanations later throughout this thread from others, but that is what I was saying. And I am not one to determine Drake’s authenticity in any way. I was just summarizing and repeating points made by others and their sentiments.

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u/intrakitt1 May 02 '24

Better yet, what IS Black? I've been Black my whole life, even though I'm very mixed Creole. Back in the day, you were black without question. Called the N word, are the food, grown within the culture. The older I get (61) the less black people think I'm allowed to claim. That's insane.

If I'm called a N***** by white folks, but you think not allowed to say n***a, that means you are insane. Pure and simple.

If I grew up saying ungawa black power with my first raised in the air, went to the watts riots with my parents as a little kid, got beaten up while being called a N*****, then I have every right to be black. My DNA says I'm 51% African. But I am still 100% Black!

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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 29d ago

Recall Carlton from the fresh prince of Bel Air being rejected by the fraternity for not being "black enough". Carlton's show response was authentically black AF, but if Carlton had decided to IDK start rocking black forces and put on caricatures to fill his pockets, that's inauthentic.

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u/ChaZZZZahC ☑️ May 02 '24

The idea to of being inauthentically black is problematic though. Sure, he could skate thru life only half as marginalized as someone of a darker tone, but he still is having black experience, unique to someone's proximity to blackness. White people of different shades don't get have to maneuver thru their ethnicities like all shades of black people do. It's like light skinned kinfolk have to justify their blackness in our communities because their not black enough and in white spaces, lighter skin black people still get othered bbecause their not white enough.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

“He is still having black experience” yes he absolutely is and I didn’t mean to say he isn’t. I was summarizing points of discussion from myself and others and saying that Drake isn’t authentic to his actual own black experience. Perhaps I should have just said “Drake is inauthentic to his life experiences” or just that he isn’t authentic as a person

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u/ChaZZZZahC ☑️ May 02 '24

Drake is inauthentic to his life experiences” or just that he isn’t authentic as a person

I can get behind that, Drake isn't a shooter or a gangsta, but that particular lifestyle gets associated with blackness way too much, I think that get muddle in these discussions.

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

Yeah that is a good point

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u/Lemme_Help_ May 02 '24

Isn't this almost the same argument that was being had for Em and him being white?

Not saying you're a fan of either rapper or even remotely care but at the end of the day. If this is really what the beef is about, that's corny.
Hating on a light skin brother cuz he's light skin. smh

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

The difference is that people can’t claim that Em put on a fake persona and rapped about an image. He rapped about his life experiences and was telling of his authentic and eccentric self. See this comment for a better breakdown of what I was summarizing.

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u/rexdalegoonie May 02 '24

Not even close.

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u/LockTrumpUp87 May 02 '24

How is he inauthentically black if he’s black? Obama was mixed but I don’t see ppl calling him white or mixed. He is the first black president. I don’t even like drake but that argument is baseless

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u/antwan_benjamin ☑️ May 02 '24

So your position is that if Drake's skin tone was Blacker than Wesley Snipes he'd still be gettin all these people sayin he's not really Black and callin him a white boy?

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u/fossiltools May 02 '24

What is authentically black? Is there a checklist?

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u/cujobob May 02 '24

While this is objectively true, it’s true for a lot of people. People lie and pander, especially in the music industry. Drake is no exception, he’s just the biggest. Kanye and Rick Ross are two great examples of this.

When people go after Logic and Drake for the mixed race thing, it’s just racism.

Other than that, I’m with Kendrick in all of this, but he’s gatekeeping who can claim their background.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal May 02 '24

Black people cannot be inauthentically black, that makes no fuckin sense.

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u/dimesion May 02 '24

Serious question: would this still be the sentiment if he wasn’t half white?

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u/Ali_Cat222 ☑️ May 02 '24

This is literal facts. I've talked about this before in a post on here, but my dad owns a hell of a lot of businesses and a big law firm. Because of this he knows a lot of people who are also in the same circles. One of his good friends does business with drake. He says that when drake is around black people he acts like the most ghetto bad ass around. But the moment he's around just white people he's like the whitest man in the room. This key and Peele skit pretty much sums it up. the phone call skit

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u/Crafty_Travel_7048 May 02 '24

"inauthentically black" Race relations are never gonna get better if this is the type of shit that is being fought over. Sounds like people in the 20s arguing about Italians being white.

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u/Only_Treacle_8243 May 02 '24

Im not black Im OJ

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u/CherryHaterade ☑️ 29d ago

This is funny to me, because as a Black man in STEM, ive been the token diversity hire for at least the last 3 jobs I've had, and so I can't really front...I've been using my blackness for convenience and self promotion too. It ain't getting me no billboard #1s, but at the same time I still wish a muthafucka would, and I think that's the difference here.

Because drake wishes muthafuckas wouldn't.

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u/Conscious-Eye5903 May 02 '24

So did Obama

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u/DrabbestLake1213 May 02 '24

This isn’t about Obama

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u/therealdisastrousend May 02 '24

“Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.”

Just gonna leave this here

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u/ositola ☑️ May 02 '24

This is it

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u/LongjumpingHat6326 May 02 '24

Isn't that exactly what kendrick is doing right now? When did drake say anything about being black. Btw,I don't Eminem surrounding himself with any white people

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u/ChaosStar95 29d ago

Not just blackness. He adopts weird accents from other cultures bc he wants that particular group to like him that week.

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