Do we consider Drake AA?

[flea]

Nikka get all the way the fukk oudda here. You a fake one trying to be down i peeped game a long time ago

Im a AA King your on a predominately black website. Its you who bows down to me fuccnikka

Don't nobody give a fukk what u peeped . Youre a nobody now go get your fukking shine box before I get upset

 

[Malta]

He was raised by a white jewish woman in Canada

 

[calixprynce]

i guess that's why he was bar mitzvah'd. jews believe that it's passed down thru the mother

even in west africa they practice matrilineality

i forgot the term but i think scientists trace genes back through mothers genetics or some shyt . i need to refresh my memory on it

 

[MikeyC]

Why shouldn't he be considered African American?

He's of African heritage and was born, bred and currently lives in an American country.

That should be enough, no?

 

[Shadow King]

He's a Black Canadian not African-American

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Neither him nor Barry Obama is black. Both are mixed. Americans need to let go of the one drop rule.

Obama got more than one drop. Obama's pops was was 100% black and straight from the motherland. Drake's dad (as with a lot of us) got some mixture down the line.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

If you say no, then does it bother you when he uses the n-word in his songs? Why or why not?

Yes. Always thought it sounded off with how much he says it

 

[#SOG_soldier]

Obama got more than one drop. Obama's pops was was 100% black and straight from the motherland. Drake's dad (as with a lot of us) got some mixture down the line.

His mother is also 100Percent white. So Barry is only 50 percent black.

 

[Poitier]

His mother is also 100Percent white.

His mother actually has a few enslaved ancestors...

 

[#SOG_soldier]

His mother actually has a few enslaved ancestors...

Oh ok. Didn't know that either way in my country he is classified as colored. Neither black nor white

 

[Poitier]

in my country

aint u American

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

His mother actually has a few enslaved ancestors...

Read its from some of the first enslaved blacks in this country

 

[BigMan]

Read its from some of the first enslaved blacks in this country

So is AA?

 

[Illuminatos]

How can someone born and raised in Canada be African-American?

Drake is not black, he's mixed.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Yes. The light skin Keith Sweat.