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When he made the decision to be a rapper, he entered into a musical culture rooted firmly in both blackness and repping your ends.
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At the time, he was living between an affluent part of Toronto with his white mother, where he describes his experience of attending a Jewish high school by saying “the kids that were cool… I wasn’t really on their wavelength, which made me sorta uncool,” and his father’s in Memphis, where he was described as being “the furthest thing from the hood.”
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Bear with me.ĭrake’s career started out in acting, on the teen show Degrassi. Reasons that are tied up in societies own complex relationship with race and identity, and further than that, our own. Sure, he’s got a goofy smile and seems sweet enough for us to let it slide, but I have a theory that the reasons we let Drake get away with his begginess run much deeper. It’s kind of a wonder we let him get away with it. You can imagine Drake in the studio, hearing the song for the first time, and nodding, wide-eyed, “Yes! This is funky!” Now, Drake has released a song called ‘One Dance’, where he’s crooning over the top of UK Funky House artists Crazy Cousinz production ‘Do You Mind’ by Kyla, a song so old in our British music scene that I was banging it when I was doing my GCSEs.
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He dances like a dad, and inspired a series of cringe worthy memes that parody how his sensitive lyrics go “ against the alpha male stereotype that is still prevalent in hip hop.” He’s the same dude who rapped “we can stare up at the stars and put the Beatles on” on a song about f*ckin’ bad bitches. He’s a paradox that shouldn’t work: a Jewish black boy from the Toronto suburbs who went from being a sweet child star to one of the biggest rap stars of right now.