LA Times - Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’

[Fillerguy]

Another Angel of Aubrey. Kendrick never attacked Drake's race. He never mentioned his Blackness. He even claimed Drake's white kid was Black.

Drake is a Hip-Hop culture vulture. It has almost nothing to do with him being biracial. There's a reason why Kendrick isn’t calling Fat Joe, Eminem, 21 Savage, or even Jack Harlow culture vultures. Drake isn't like them. He's not like us.

 

[JamesJabdi]

The discussion should turn from if they are black to what they gonna do for black folks. Drake ain't done shyt for black folks and Kamala said she ain't doing shyt EXCLUSIVELY for black folk....that tells me all.....they want to talk black but sleep white

 

[Wargames]

In America, Black has always been defined not only to describe Black Americans but also as an umbrella term for other individuals who are regarded as Black from different regions of the world, such as Africans (Nigerians, Ghanaians, etc), Caribbeans/Jamaicans, and Afro-Hispanics.

Regardless of how you feel about the term and who should only be allowed to be viewed as such, it's already been set in stone for over a hundred years that in America, the category Black isn't limited to US-born Black Americans, although we are often viewed as the de facto face of what the term Black stands for in regards to ethnicity.

By US standards, Kamala is Black, just not in the Black American sense, but she is classified as Black or, if you want to say, mixed, but still in all Black DNA dominates. This isn't debatable.

I think that is the biggest issue the black ethnic group needs it’s own name and not something as swagless a ADOS because slavery doesn’t define it doesn’t the rest of the diaspora that experienced it.

 

[RamsayBolton]

Another Angel of Aubrey. Kendrick never attacked Drake's race. He never mentioned his Blackness.

I am more a kendrick fan than a Drake fan and I was neutral in the battle until it was clear Kendrick won, but come on breh.

"We dont wanna hear you say nikka no mooooooore?"

 

[Fillerguy]

I am more a kendrick fan than a Drake fan and I was neutral in the battle until it was clear Kendrick won, but come on breh.

"We dont wanna hear you say nikka no mooooooore?"

I'm not even a fan of Kendrick and I have more Drake song my phone because music is easier to listen through.


Keep in mind, we're posting on a site where posters routinely try to revoke the nword passes to non FBA Blacks. You can be Black have nikkas press you for saying nikka. I used to smack nikkas from the burbs who say it in front of cacs.

But that besides the point because Kenny never said Drake isn't Black. He could've pulled a Ross and called him a white boy. Or like Push and clowned him for being insecure about his Blackness....but he didn't.

 

[ThatTruth777]

In America, Black has always been defined not only to describe Black Americans but also as an umbrella term for other individuals who are regarded as Black from different regions of the world, such as Africans (Nigerians, Ghanaians, etc), Caribbeans/Jamaicans, and Afro-Hispanics.

Regardless of how you feel about the term and who should only be allowed to be viewed as such, it's already been set in stone for over a hundred years that in America, the category Black isn't limited to US-born Black Americans, although we are often viewed as the de facto face of what the term Black stands for in regards to ethnicity.

By US standards, Kamala is Black, just not in the Black American sense, but she is classified as Black or, if you want to say, mixed, but still in all Black DNA dominates. This isn't debatable.

Yeah that's understood but does that give her a right to access our history as ADOS and use it to backdrop her points? They're real quick to pull out that laundry list of issues we face but when it comes time to do something about solving something, its a people of color thing now.

 

[stave]

Subs for the shytshow

 

[QBN]

I am more a kendrick fan than a Drake fan and I was neutral in the battle until it was clear Kendrick won, but come on breh.

"We dont wanna hear you say nikka no mooooooore?"

Kendrick said that because of this clip of Drake saying N word with the hard "er".

 

[QBN]

" ...the attempt to define him as a colonizer overlooks how Black people in the United States often believe that our Blackness is superior to that of other Black people, itself a colonial view that is far more problematic than anything of which Drake might be accused"

More problematic than being accused of being a pedophile???

 

[Walt]

The funniest thing about this is Kamala's team and the Dem party in general are running a campaign based on Kendrick's approach to Drake. They've played his songs at rallies and they've been working the "JD Vance is weird, why is he around" angle.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Vance’s vacuous turn of phrase reflects his faux shrill-billy white resentment of Harris’ cosmopolitan Blackness.

Ironically, that cosmopolitan vision of Blackness is at the heart of the Lamar and Drake dustup. Their kerfuffle — playing out fiercely this spring in a series of releases — is a battle over cultural cachet, racial authenticity and group pride. And it exposes a provincialism that undercuts the global currents of hip-hop...

Lamar’s beef with Drake is rooted in a parochial, claustrophobic vision of Blackness.

Did this bootlicking fakkit just compare Kendrick to JD Vance?

And what is "cosmopolitan blackness"? Oh, I see. The opposite of a "parochial, claustrophobic vision of blackness."

This is some disgusting, dare I say, anti black shyt he's peddling.

 

[King Poetic]

I get rid tired of this nikka always throwing in hip hop in the mix with everything he talks about

This the same nikka who was saying bad shyt about Obama and what he’s going to do for black people alongside of tavis smiley and cornel west but once he got next to obama in the white house dinner he cut off tavis and cornel

Lost total respect for that nikka ever since

 

[Da_Eggman]

What does it mean to say Drake's Jewish? If the answer is his mother is Jewish, what does that mean? Asking for a friend

If your mother is Jewish you are considered Jewish but if only ur father is you aren’t just how it works

 

[ORDER_66]

anything for a DNC bag....

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

The fact he conflated a Kendrick Lamar song with Harris means he’s probably on his overzealous liberal babble and it’s not worth listening to or considering.

This is typically what middle age white culture does; take a whole bunch of bullshyt, pop culture issues and try to tie them together to bring some sort of pseudo awareness that really just misses the mark completely and illustrates how disconnected from reality they can be mentally.

As much as I love music and believe in its power, I wouldn’t recommend listening to Kendrick Lamar to become more aware. There are about a billion other avenues to take that would be much more helpful than relying on music entertainment.