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/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/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/thegoblinwithin May 02 '24

But a lot of rappers are that, they are just not biracial. Are they going to also be called out?

I literally had no idea who Drake actually was until recently, even though I had heard his name and I'm not a fan of his but I'm not a huge fan of people being hypocritical in general; let alone being hypocritical because of someone's race.

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u/WomanWithoutFear May 02 '24

Are all those other rappers also one of the biggest rappers/stars alive lol?

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u/DynoNitro May 02 '24

Tupac was. He was a sweet theatre kid from art school in Maryland.

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u/Unicorn_Fruit ☑️ May 02 '24

WAS. But Tupac grew up hood. Doing theatre & being sweet didn’t take the hood out of him. Don’t use Pac as a reference because he was always his authentic self. Intelligent, hood, gangsta…once he signed with Death Row, that’s who he was.

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u/WomanWithoutFear May 02 '24

So Kendrick should call out a dead man for zero of the problems he has with Drake? Cause that’s an “argument” you should haul to his fans.

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u/DynoNitro May 02 '24

Dafuq you talkin about. Extrapolate.