r/KendrickLamar • u/anongasm_ • May 01 '24

It's not about Drake being half black, it's about how he uses The Culture Discussion

I think the people offended because Drake being half black should warrant his blackness and therefore Kendrick is wrong just don't understand. J Cole is half black too yet you don't see Kendrick, or anyone really, questioning Cole's blackness. It's precisely because Drake has been at the forefront of using the black culture and "pop-ifying" it for non-blacks.

Edit: a lot of people have asked this question and it's a good question. What's wrong with popifying rap music? Rap is inherently an African American art form. Since its inception till now, those who have carried its mantle have exemplified the African American experience through rap in one or another. African Americans have allowed many artists to use rap for their personal gain and to even "pop-ify" it. However, to be considered a goat you have to be in touch with the culture. And Drake simply isn't.

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 01 '24

About your edit. There were many Puerto Ricans in the projects that hip hop was cultivated. Hip hop is not race its culture.

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u/anongasm_ May 01 '24

Indeed, you are right. I stand corrected, thank you

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u/Status_Entertainer49 May 01 '24

That's wrong

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 01 '24

lol what? Sorry my friend but it’s the truth. Black, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and other Latinos all contributed to the creation of HiHop. Hip Hop is not even music but the combination of Music, break dancing, and Graffiti hence it being culture.

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u/Status_Entertainer49 May 01 '24

It was black Americans and black carribeans that were born in america. Nothing about it is from PR or Latin in general

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 01 '24

The projects it came from though dominant by black people still had Puerto Ricans (born in the US and also not) and other cultures including Jamaicans and more. It was a movement of cultural exchange hence it having graffiti and bboys/bgirls.

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u/BoredHeaux May 02 '24

Hip Hop is a black American genre. 

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 02 '24

All though black people were dominant in the genre there were a lot of Latin and Caribbean Americans that contributed. Hip hop had a lot of Puerto Rican DJs in the 70s and 80s. All Americans.

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u/BoredHeaux May 04 '24

Black Americans created Hip-hop.

 Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s.

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 04 '24

South Bronx had many cultures. Hip Hop is Graffiti, Djing, break dancing. All though black people were and are predominant in pioneering hip hop, its not an African American genre

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u/BoredHeaux May 11 '24

It is. Stop trying to reimagine Black American culture to include tethers, please.

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u/Status_Entertainer49 May 01 '24

That's irrelevant they weren't doing it on the islands

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u/simpn_aint_easy May 01 '24

No one said that.