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Drake didn’t start from the bottom, he started from 75% up💀

No one’s hating on the fact that he comes from a nice home and perceived positive environment. It’s that he portrays that he is not

“This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence” type vibes

"Living with my momma, we would argue every month"

What horror....

I've known white people who didn't grow up as white as Drake.

drake bitching over the tuna sandwich while his mom is a sweetheart
trying to accommodate and still hes ungrateful

"My uncle worked with al green" is such an understatement. Larry Graham is probably the most influential bassist in popular music history.

“If she’s 16 I’m 16” is something else

"Started in the upper middle class now I'm here"

"Did it all without a Drake feature"- RIP Mac Miller

I’ve known ultra white people that don’t live as white as Drake.

This was the PERFECT analysis from a Black American perspective. It's like we all understand the unspoken rules of the culture without having to meet each other.

Logic looking like the blackest man alive compared to drake.

"I don't want you to rap about what I rap about. Rap about your little TV show, rap about Canada, just don't rap about how you're a hardcore gangster that kills people." - Lil Wayne

“What's the matter dawg? You embarrassed?
This guy's a gangsta but his real name's Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage” head aszz

This was a truly succinct definition of 'cultural appropriation'. It's not about race as much as life experience. Eminem is all white and never tried to say he wasn't. But it was his genuine life experience that made him relatable from the start.

His "STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM" is most people's "NOW WE HERE"

Drake Is the male version of Jennifer Lopez

Speaking from my own white suburban upper middle class perspective, I think I understand why Drake does this. When you grow up listening to art from people who've survived unimaginable physical and spiritual turmoil you start to associate good art with pain. This assumption forms that in order to be a great artist, you have to have a determination that can only be born in you when you come up from nothing. And when you've never worried about where your next meal will come from, or if you even have a future at all, you get insecure. You feel like you don't have anything meaningful to contribute. To deal with this you can either do as Drake does, dress yourself in traditions you don't know anything about while leaning on tenuous connections to your culture of choice to essentially steal valor, or you can recognize the truth about art which is that the secret ingredient is not pain. It's truth. The reason the great rappers from the streets are great isn't because their childhoods were violent and painful, it's because they chose to express their experiences in ways that provide entertainment, meaning, and peace to others. Being a rapper who sings isn't the problem. Being soft isn't the problem. Being half-white isn't the problem. Dishonesty is.

Off topic but drake got that default grandma