We discuss when Kendrick Lamar said it's cringeworthy when Drake says the n word. Also, we visit the idea of most death calling Drake's music commercial and that it belongs in retail stores such as Target.
You know that the Drake blackface was in protest against stereotyping black actors. You just pushing biracial out of the community. If we are to successful we know that were going to get this treatment.
@francisnichole5789 we all knew man but the music is good so we let it all slide. "Keep making me dance waving my hands..." Then we stopped dancing. He started gangster shit and the clock was ticking since then.
@@MrsBoyd4500he is just mixed from Canada born with 1 black Jamaican parrent came to America started off acting in a nickoledian show as a disabled kid Later on became a big rapper
@@1Love-starboss Drake's father is a Black American from Memphis, Tennessee, named Dennis Graham. He apparently spent time with his dad's side of his family and his dad every summer. His father allegedly left his mother when Drake 5 or 6 years old.
Drake father is Black American, his uncle is actually a legendary musician in Black America and is literally responsible for creating the slap bass technique lol. He didn’t grow up with his father side tho, he grew up with his mother. But he isn’t Jamaican, he just uses Jamaican accents lol
@@chimezie7 That's correct. Larry Graham is his uncle and he was a member of Sly & the Family Stone and later went on to form his own band named Graham Central Station. He also had a significant solo career and had hit records. People think Drake came from nowhere, but he always had industry connections.
So what ? What’s wrong with being Canadian ? He makes dope music. Talk to me when you fill out arenas kid Or drop classic albums Other wise stay broke on RU-vid
Those videos of young Drake with his white friends talking about "he doesn't like the way black people talk" exposed how he really feels about black culture. He not a colleague he a colonizer. 💯
You also hear a lot of “fully black people”, that clearly suffer with internalised racism talk badly about other black people, so your point is kinda muddied in the water at this point. It’s called Respectability politics.
@HitTheLofi Drake even if he wasn't half white would be called on this. Have you never heard of an uncle tom or a racoon? Ever heard of Candace Owens or Clarence Thomas? Drake being a black man mixed or not, has said and done ANTI-BLACK things. You can be black and be anti-black, we see it all the time
@@HitTheLofi Nope, it's not the same when you're raised in a home with a whole white parent and their resources, plus the complexion for the protection. A lot of biracials looks down on Black people and think they're better, I found this out the hard way growing up as a light skinned Black person and biracials got very loose lipped around me- had to drop a lot of friends over this. As you can see, Drake has used his proximity to whiteness to gentrify Hip Hop- that isn't adjacent to internalised racism in an unambiguous Black person who cannot reap the same rewards and command the same influence due to him being perceived as 'safe' by white people who endorsed his career.
Like Tupac . You know that the Drake blackface was in protest against stereotyping black actors. You just pushing biracial out of the community. If we are to successful we know that were going to get this treatment.
There's video of Drake saying the nword with the "ER" ending before he was rapping while he was working on his TV series Degrassi. Drake is a suburban square that didn't even grow up around black Canadians and used to make fun of black Canadians at his school. Drake is in his black face bag big time now as a rapper. He's an actor playing the role of a rapper - the biggest acting role of his career.
he was actually rapping at the time he was talkin bout how Jay was lookin at him sayin "That's that Nigga right there" is what Drake was talkin bout in that clip, but he was using the ER ending I'm just not gonna type that obviously lol. But it wasn't before he was rapping, that was just early on in his music career when he had said that which is even worse tbh like he knew exactly what he was doing when he did that.
Tf you yappin' about? When you getting bullied because of being biracial YESSSSSSS ya sometimes gotta wear different hats. It's no different than the hat you wear when you deal with your friends on tha streets or the hat you put on when you around your family. We all wear costumes when it suits us.
They also have a healthy amount easily digestible music mixed in. That’s the candy that people want, but the albums have the medicine mixed in there that people need. In order to reach their level you have to be a master at both. I feel that’s exactly what Kendrick is and does.
That last question about 'if it was possible to be conscious and profitable' was weird given that we have Kendrick Lamar as literal proof that it is possible.
@@thanx4askinWas that in a full version of this interview? Because I’m this clip, the question came first, and _then_ he gave his opinion on Kendrick. Not the other way around
I don’t see how Kendrick doesn’t qualify as conscious. TPAB is arguably the most conscious conceptual album I’ve ever heard. And I was around for the native tongues, soulquarians, etc. I’ve heard Public Enemy and they are amazing, but as an album I’ve not heard anything with the kind of depth mixed with concepts like TPAB imo.
@@ArtificialIntelligenceSoundthat’s also why in his disses to Kendrick there were so many errors. Drake wasn’t checking if shit was true, interpreted right or consistent with the stuff he was saying. He contradicted himself and it just shows that it wasn’t only him writing. That chip a nail line was his idk about the rest lol
I’ve been saying this for some years. Him and Iggy Azalea basically does the same thing. They “put on” blackness when they rap. They do not talk like that.
Iggy more authentic than drake. Drake is a shape shifter. Iggy was just a 304. Yeah she from Australia but she still was a 304 so her music was real just garbage.
He had 2 interviews never removed because he was talking so bad about Kendrick during those interviews & it got back to Kendrick how bad he was talking about him. So, I get why he doesn’t do interviews. It’s because he doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut & whines like a little girl. If you feel that way about someone where you won’t stop talking about them, then maybe you should’ve went to Kendrick like a man & not gossiping like a Karen
To the point of whether or not a conscious rapper can be profitable at that level, the answer is yes, it's happening now. Kendrick's last album, as much as they wanna say it was a flop, outsold Drake's last album. Just because you don't hear a rapper's song used in marketing everywhere doesn't mean it doesn't have an audience and isn't selling. Drake's music is only really popular because it's subliminally pumped into your ears at every turn. It's played in the background of the shows you watch, and at events so even though you don't like it, you can't escape it until you've heard it enough and you just simply know the music. You STILL don't like his music, it's just comfortable at that point. His entire career is product placement. Mos Def wasn't just saying that it's the type of music you hear in a Target while shopping, he was also saying that Drake in and of himself is a Target, a corporate entity whereby everything that it displays is decided by committee to be the most appealing to the widest audience and have something for everyone so that they are reliant on it as a resource even if the products are simply average and is heavily supported by if not subsidized by advertisements and brand deals.
That Rosenberg interview was so appalling because of how much he leaned into the Jewish Ness. Then turns around and starts talking gang culture and "nigga" in the music.
He most likely just had a logical opinion that you didn’t agree with so that’s all you took from it. I’ve learned to take what other blakk folks say with a grain of salt because I know y’all think with feelings and not brains
@@noxmoloto5368 you only said “he leaned into Jewish ness” because that’s what your blakk emotions told you and probably wasn’t even true. Most likely just had an opinion you didn’t like. Obviously you need comprehension skills 😅 all good
Drake used to think the N word with the hard ER at the end was the correct way to use the N word lol dude is on more than one video saying the N word with the hard ER lol from the two videos I saw in one he was in a studio then in another he looked like he was on set of Degrassi
I hate how everyone is suddenly calling Drake out for these things when the dude has been around for over *15 years* and none of you said anything. I remember complaining about Drake saying the n word in 08 and other black americans told me “who cares?” Now suddenly they want speak out because another popular rapper criticized him? 😂
I loved Brand Nubian back in the day and still play All For One on a regular basis but it’s sad to see rappers from back in the day criticizing rappers that still have a career. Jamar talks crap about other artists but won’t jump in the booth himself but I can understand that because without Puba and Sadat, he wouldn’t have survived as a solo artist. He can’t say he’s too old because KRS One is still releasing albums and we have new albums coming out this year from “older” rappers like LL, Rakim, and Common.
He ain't lying. I stopped listening to drake after he started getting into all the accents. I was a Drake fan before that, he's fake, a counterfeit, a poser, an imposter. Hip Hop it's time to get this man up outta here.
Listen to drakes songs when he first came out. His flow sounds just like lil waynes, and i couldve swore that the songs he rapped were songs lil wayne probably wrote.
@@AngeBiampandou None of them have an Oscar or Emmy. Longevity plays a part in being the most successful so that disqualifies Pac because his life was short lived. He is also known more for being a gangsta rapper....... Thug Life. Kendrick has a lot more Grammys but he and Nas have only had one real acting role. J. Cole doesn't act. Common has been in a few hit movies. He also had the hardest route coming out of Chicago. They all had co-signs from established major Hip-Hop artists. (Kendrick/Dr. Dre, J. Cole/Jay Z., Tupac/Shock G., Nas/Q-Tip, Pete Rock, MC Serch, DJ Premier & Large Professor). Common was the only one to not have the benefit of a co-sign.
Wouldn’t Kendrick count as being conscious and profitable? Or maybe I am misunderstanding what Lord Lamar means. Lauryn Hill too, even though she didn’t have a long solo run. I feel like Nas sold decent numbers in his peak, but maybe he isn’t being considered conscious. Again, maybe I’m misunderstanding what he means.
I been saying that about Drake. It's about the way he talks. I cringe, too, whenever I hear certain black people say the N-word... especially if they usually talk in that nasally, uptight, wannabe Mr. Cartwright or Mrs. Cartwright voice. That's when it becomes cringey. Like I cringe whenever my auntie curses, because she's usually a proper lady who never utters a curse word in casual conversation. So when she gets upset and starts cursing, it sounds really weird and I know it's quite a stretch for her.
There is actually a video of Drake saying guys who talk slang are weird. He was talking about toronto slang i believe when he was younger. He didnt grew up like that at all
I love Drake but he told no lies I always said if Drake wasn’t a good artist he wouldn’t be the type of person these rappers would hang with a biracial Jewish kid from Canada who grew up mostly with his white mom and was on a TV show with a bunch white kids be real😂
I don’t think he’s been a good artist for years, he was respectable for his first young money run maybe to 2015, but the guy started acting tough for no reason, just never sat right with me
Receipts please...don't spew lies like your idol Aubrey 😂....the Hispanics who use that word like Fat Joe, even Takashi actually grew up in the hood around blacks...so unlike Aubrey it's not cultural expropriation
Fat Joe and all the others like him would not get a pass in the South with that word. It wouldn't matter if they lived in the same neighborhood as Black people. ☮️
@@DW-py4up Morally they shouldn't however IF it's something that was indoctrinated CULTURALLY in their upbringing like they do in the NY boroughs it's tricky and somewhat understable. Bro there's a viral Mexican LA rapper called Lefty Gunplay who grew up around blacks and is influenced by hip hop culture all his life... in his section they refer to us as "the blacks" not niggaz even though they technically could do it..What Drake does is cultural expropriation..e.g Logic has a black dad too but he doesn't use the N word and Logic's dad was actually present in his life unlike that leach Dennis Graham who only came to authenticate Drake's ethnicity when he went mainstream
The perfect example is : - Drake vs J.Cole - both are mixed - but with j.Cole his “blackness” is actually authentic …so much to the point you almost forget he’s mixed 😂
@@nikanika24that's why yall don't know shit...yall all focused on the cleanliness of teeth instead of the information and then you actually posted your thoughts like you discovered something magnificent. You should be embarrassed to show us low level intelligence.
This all J Prince fault. The powers that used to be went and found a real G to cosign Drake then they carefully placed him next to Wayne strictly so ninjas would let him in our dojo.
