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Professor Eric Dyson in a new video shares that Jay Z contacted him & VIGOROUSLY disagreed with him about his criticism of the way Kendrick Lamar tried to strip Drake of his Blackness during the beef as well as the pedophilia accusations that were made against Drake.
Dyson argued that Drake, as a biracial artist from the Black diaspora, is undeniably part of Black culture & that reducing Blackness to a narrow definition ignores the global scope of the Black experience. He added that while Kendrick Lamar is a brilliant lyricist, the attempt to question Drake’s authenticity reflects a problematic tendency to police who is allowed to belong in the culture.
Shawn Carter, better known as Jay Z disagrees with Professor Eric Dyson’s take.
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@eftiiano @nbastradepalace You can't compare Tupac and Malcolm to Kendrick. Kendrick is nothing but a rapper. Music doesn't create change, Kendrick is proof of that. The most it can do is reflect the change the Tupacs and Malcoms created.
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@BAM_OU @nbastradepalace The political stance you are taking was never in Kendrick’s part as well. You say Malcom X and Tupac, but neither of those guys stood for the modern political parties. His albums were always about the fact that liberation starts with the individual and not a ballot.
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@eftiiano @nbastradepalace What he does is observe. He spends the next 5 years waiting for whatever the next struggle we'll face. He takes notes and when he's ready, he'll turn our struggle into another album. The cycle continues.
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@eftiiano @nbastradepalace During said 5 years when he's not making music, he does nothing to support the social issues we face everyday, the ones he rapped about his entire album pretending to care. Far from anything matching Tupac or Malcolm. Not a signal act of significance.
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@LanaLannne We buy the album and once he gets all the sales he needs, he disappears back to his wealth for the next 5 years, while we sit here repissed at white people because of his album.
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@LanaLannne But nah. Instead of doing stuff that actually makes a difference, we get a few songs on an album every 5 years. He raps about stuff he knows is gonna get us emotional and pissed off, but in a way that makes us think he relates so we connect to it.
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@LanaLannne He calls America racist but when Donald Trump, a man who is as blatantly racist as a politician can be, runs for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 3 TIMES, he didn't lend his voice a single time. All the songs referencing the KKK and he didnt vote for the black woman over the KKK.😂
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@LanaLannne In 15 years, nothing. He acts like he's pro-black before anything else but treyvon Martin, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor ect. he never said a word about any of them outside his music years later. Doesn't help at all.
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