J.Cole: "I might not be as Successful as I am now if i was dark skin"

[froggle]

I was gonna go off on a tangent until I read the full article. What he says is true to some degree. But whatever yo

 

[godkiller]

He seems to be confused. The vast majority of all successful male rappers are dark skin.

The majority of people trying to rap are dark and brown skin so obviously most rappers will be dark and brown skinned. Mixed are a small minority and are overrepresented among the top stars. There's a reason for that.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Outside of maybe bytches, nobody cares about him being light skin or half white.....he's a black rapper, to most.

I truly doubt bytches care either, cuz he doesn't seem like a heartthrob or anything, but I'll let a female speak on that.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Outside of maybe bytches, nobody cares about him being light skin or half white.....he's a black rapper, to most.

I truly doubt bytches care either, cuz he doesn't seem like a heartthrob or anything, but I'll let a female speak on that.

Most females I know clown his looks

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

But Kendrick's dark skinned and sold twice as many records as him.

Kendrick's a better rapper, too.

Black people in 2013 are still stuck on that colorism/Willie Lynch/slave mentality. Shyt is sad!

 

[BruhMayne]

This nikka finna fukk around and disappoint NaS all over again

His looks have nothing to do with his success. On that vibe cover with NaS,he looks like a rapist
Even in workout plan he looked creepy as fukk watching them kids on the playground
I wonder if he been on any picnics lately

Wont even ask you how

at Cole's old rap name before changing it to his government

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

Lil Wayne also said the light skin comment to Drake...

i dunno, when you really look at successful blacks its not a lights skin thing...its various factors...

President Obama is African whose player dad went at Harvard, and Presidents mom was white trash...lets call it what is was, and Obama made that out of something...If Obama was a stereoyptical american mixed blacks who just have been a president maybe a senator/governor, because even american blacks before Obama did not see how they themselves being elected as president.

As skin tone...Jay Z is a fav rapper...and kinda noticed his is kinda light, but not as light as beyonce...but Jay rap is at another level and thus his fans. Kanye Westis dark skins has 9,700,000+ followers on twitter. Lil Wayne dark skin got 12,900,000+ followers on twitter. Notorious BIG dark skin. All successful rappers.

The irony of it all is there were two people, 1 dark and 1 light, who came together to create the mixed child. The child still has "dark" blood.

Also Wale is dark and has 3,000,000 followers. J. Cole has around 4,300,000+ followers. On the flip side white rapper MGK who was in the freshman xxl 2010 list has 800,000 followers on twitter. Light red skin rapper Nipsey Hussle on the 2010 freshman xxl list has 422,000 followers on twitter. "dark" big seans has 4,500,000 followers on twitter. "dark" wiz khalifa has 11,100,000+ followers on twiter.

I have seen the color card being played, but for the most part core hip-hop fans are not racist.

Sadly there might be some help with crossover, but it also comes down to talent, timing, connections, media...

Sometimes the colorism and racism creates more issues.

 

[HoloGraphic]

J. Cole's lane is the lightskin looking up to darkskin trying to be accepted but I'm just not good (dark) enough lane. This is just weak sauce.

"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep." -Malcolm X

He has this whole "on the come up vibe" that I was never feeling. He stays looking up to the greats, following in their shadow, trying to step into their shoes. Stop looking up to Nas and Jigga your J.Cole. Just be J.Cole

 

[Rack4K]

It depends on what he's rapping about. If he has nonviolent content, his lightskin is a perk. But if he wanted to seem tough, it would work against him.

This country's concept of blackness is rooted in racism; the lighter you are, the nicer you are. The darker you are, the more aggressive you're expected to be. As hip hop moves further away from the thug shyt, more lightskin brothers are gonna be in the forefront. Darkskin brehs had an advantage throughout most of hiphops history because it relied on negative black stereotypes. Sad but true.

Porn is the same way. The biggest darkest nigras get the most work because it wants to sell the porn consumer a certain taboo. Its fukked up.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I think pretty much everyone knows Obama wouldn't have gotten to office if he wasn't half white.

Completely different argument.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Thats hilarious...because J Cole COULD be more successful if he was a better rapper.

 

[Zebruh]

The nikka got teeth like he been chewing various rocks, and he worried about being light-skin.

 

[Nintendough]

#BiracialExcellence

 

[Lana Kane]

*sits*

 

[King Poetic]