Come on, lol, Charla didn't bleach his skin. There's a Brilliant Idiots episode with him and his dermatologist.
https://soundcloud.com/thebrilliantidiots/protect-your-melanin-w-dr-natasha-sandy
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DRAKE VS G.O.O.D. Music (Update: Pusha Responds)
- Thread starter Lifejumper
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Come on, lol, Charla didn't bleach his skin. There's a Brilliant Idiots episode with him and his dermatologist.
https://soundcloud.com/thebrilliantidiots/protect-your-melanin-w-dr-natasha-sandy
presumably, Push's suggestion that this is only "volume 1..." and he's starting slowly.
In those cases it's been normalized, which is another issue. The low level drug trade exists because of desperate people without a lot of other options. Does this music, to a certain extent, glamorize it? I think so, going all the way back to Ice Cube, I think there was an element of that, but bootleggers and pirates (mostly white ones) have been glamorized by American culture since the country began. Artists like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorcese glamourize the same kind of violence and crime, expect noboby puts the well-being of an entire culture at their feet over it. The things Pusha and others make music about, even if they glorify it to a certain extent, is a symptom, not the cause.
I get this. I understand this. I grew up in BedStuy.
But hip hop definitely became a "if you never sold drugs or killed someone you ain't hard or cool" exclusive club for a while which subverts what you are trying to say.
Heck in your reply you've already clowned Drake for growing up in Canada and not having a hard life.
Ex gf loved 50 cent back in the day cuz he got shot 9 times and survived. Thought her Ex bf was cool cause he got shot once. Misfortune and hardship became some kinda rite of passage in hip hop.
Glad people like Ye helped to buck this trend but it still permeates hip hop.
The same thing applies in Canada. There is a ton of racism here that goes undocumented. Drake was just fortunate enough to grow up in one of the wealthiest communities in the city.
I only brought up Drake's history because you said being a mixed man growing up in America. Race in America and Race in Canada are two different things.
Exactly. Most mixed kids aren't in wealthy communities so they automatically relate to n identify with black ppl. Drake is one of the exceptions not the rules.
Let's not act like a couple of anecdotes represent the drug trade in this country as a whole either. I'm not saying they are innocent bystanders. I'm saying they grow up in an environment where selling drugs is as normal as getting a job at McDonalds. Where the things that come with that, the crime, the run ins with police, the danger, are all normalized to a certain extent. Saying "the lack of opportunity and poverty doesn't help" as if it's just some secondary concern, and not the entire reason the drug trade in this country exists, is simply not reality.
Yep. There's always been no rules in rap beefs. People just learned to not go too far with it so it wouldn't get violent.
Everybody in this damn thread & on the internet knows that shit was taken out of context.
Can we please cut the theatrics? please?
Black people been coming at drake for the simple fact that he's lightskinned...now they're using this blackface photoshoot as ammunition, to try and prove something. Stop.
Listening to Drake's 6PM in New York tells us that he experienced the confusion of growing up mixed race. Whether Canada or America, he went through it.
And before yall accuse me of being a Drake stan, I got no dog in this fight. Love Pusha T especially as a featured artist.
Know all his verses from MBDTF and still bump Lord Willin'to this day
The greatest interviewer of all time. Check him out on YouTube, amazing stuff.
Drake fans feeling some type of way, the man got bodied. He better come with the heat cause bar for bar in a battle drake can't hang with this man.
He's a Canadian musician and interviewer known for his exhaustive research.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8h8NJG9gacZ5lAJJvhD0fQ
Doot doola doot doo...
Meh who knows who wrote those bars.
Seriously tho ppl aren't saying some mixed kids don't feel that way. Just largely in America mixed kids identify black mainly because they didn't grow up in rich white neighborhoods like drake did. Most of them don't have those sorta issues.
http://m.tmz.com/2018/05/30/drake-pusha-t-baby-diss-track-revealed-adonis/
TMZ put out the text messages where Drake was begging Sophie to abort the baby
TMZ put out the text messages where Drake was begging Sophie to abort the baby
Come on you know blackface isn't cool. If anything Drake had a pass, I really don't know if there is anything he can say to excuse that.
I hope you're Black trying to make this claim because as a light skinned Black American I find this hilarious.
Fuck are you talking about STAN.
Who wears black paint on they face with red ass lips for any reason?
Get real
Y'all arguing with an obvious member of Drake's OVO street team.
I just want know how much he paying you
I just want know how much he paying you
Plus if the context was satire like the film Bamboozled people would get the context. However it looks like it was merely an ad to sell fashion apparrel. I'm certain 31 year old Drake would've told 21 year old Drake, "Don't do it".
Blackface is a bad look full stop. Doesn't really matter what the context was.
LOL oh buoy
and SHEIIIIIIIT at those text msgs
As others have said probably the best music interviewer ever.
His Snoop Dogg interviews are certified classics cracks me up everytime
and SHEIIIIIIIT at those text msgs
As others have said probably the best music interviewer ever.
His Snoop Dogg interviews are certified classics cracks me up everytime
Damn. For anyone that doesn't want to click the link, here's the text:
Drake: I want you to have an abortion.
Brussaux: I can't kill my baby simply to indulge you sorry.
Drake: Indulge me? F*** you.
Brussaux: What?
Drake: You do know what you're doing you think you're going to get money.
She says she's having a girl.
We reached out to Drake's people, who say, "This woman has a very questionable background. She has admitted to having multiple relationships. We understand she may have problems getting into the United States. She's one of many women claiming he got them pregnant."
The rep goes on, "If it is in fact Drake's child, which he does not believe, he would do the right thing by the child."
The rep says he has no idea whether the purported text message is even real or out of context because they haven't seen the actual text.
The rep says Brussaux had sex with another big rapper at the same time as Drake, adding the other rapper has all but acknowledged it's his kid.
Finally had time to listen to this. Yup, Pusha did the right thing because now he'll have to answer for this shit during the next album cycle. Fuck the ghostwriting. That blackface shit made me lose all respect for Drake. He'll keep his pop fans, but he'll probably never be taken seriously again by most hip-hop fans.
Exactly, I chalked it up to him being young and dumb if anything... But it's still not a cute look. It's pretty fucking embarrassing at the least.
Just don't come at me with that black vs lightskin shit, wtf. Don't put that one me, I don't fuck with that at all. What petty Stan ass defense honestly.
The community needs to learn how criticize our public figures. I get it, we get targeted from all angles so we get protective, but we need to call out the shitty stuff that's going on and stop downplaying and handwaving
No one has ever come at Drake about the fact that he's mixed with a Jewish mother? Questioning his "blackness"? Asking why is Drake allowed to say the N-Word?
Okay.
Guess it's all in my head
You may not like the look.
But stop acting like Drake did this shoot to attack us black people.
It's a professional shoot, that was HIS idea. Swear ya'll stay scrambling for ammo
Irrelevant. It looks bad and there is no way Drake can turn it around
