It's not silly, because it's not so obvious that people would know that these dues were half Dominican if someone hadn't told you.
There might be a young Dominican kid who is nice with the rhymes, that may not want to rap because he thinks it ain't cool for Dominican kids to rap.
But then he sees a Dominican cat getting busy & shining so he's not scared to get his shyt off. Rappers will rep damn near anything (a borough, a crew, a block, a gang) so why not rep your roots?
I really don't remember AZ talking about being Dominican in his raps, maybe this was later in his career.
Whether you knew that they were Dominican or not doesn't mean anything. I could post up pics of plenty of Dominicans that you were never know were Dominican unless you knew who they were.
I highly doubt that's the case. Everybody raps these days. If a Dominican wants to rap, he's gonna rap regardless.
I'm not saying don't rep your roots. If you want to, then by all means go ahead. But you're trying to say that them not repping their Dominican roots makes them less Dominican. Which is bullshyt
AZ has always spoken on his Dominican roots.
@ISO just posted some examples.
None of this would be an issue if these guys were light skinned. But because they're looked at as Black people question they're authenticity, because in the mind of many people you can't be Dominican if you're Black (which is incorrect)