Let's do something fun: Most famous black person from Each state.

[KodeBlue]

Most famous person worldwide born in Illinois might be Derrick Rose

Michelle Obama
Chance the Rapper

 

[Luck]

Michelle Obama
Chance the Rapper

You may have a point with Michelle, I don’t think most people worldwide would know she from Chicago or associate her with Chicago.

chance the rapper more popular than rose

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

Some of y’all states ain’t shyt

 

[KodeBlue]

You may have a point with Michelle, I don’t think most people worldwide would know she from Chicago or associate her with Chicago.

chance the rapper more popular than rose

Zaya Wade then?

 

[kwazzy100]

Toronto...Drake?

 

[8WON6]

Missouri is oddly historically deep in this convo:

Josephine Baker
Redd Foxxx
dikk Gregory
Langston Hughes
George Washington Carver
Dred Scott
Ike Turner
Satchel Paige
Charlie Parker

honorable mention:
Don Cheadle
Eddie Griffin
Tyron Lue
Cedric the Entertainer


Klansas: Janelle Monae' ???

 

[Majestyx]

Toronto...Drake?

state, not city in another country breh

 

[Daio]

Daisy Bates & Little Rock 9

Arkansas

 

[Champ_KW]

honorable mention:
Don Cheadle
Eddie Griffin
Tyron Lue
Cedric the Entertainer


Klansas: Janelle Monae' ???

Give Cornell Haynes, Jr some love too

 

[8WON6]

Give Cornell Haynes, Jr some love too

literally had to google who that is.

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

Michigan-floyd mayweather

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Too many to name because Detroit be putting down

 

[kwazzy100]

state, not city in another country breh

Alright then

 

[Tennessee Ninja]

Tennessee birthed many famous black greats:
Issac Hayes - Tipton County/Covington
Tina Turner - Haywood County/Brownsville
Aretha Franklin - Memphis
Maurice White (of Earth, Wind, and Fire) - Memphis
Morgan Freeman - Memphis
Nikki Giovanni - Knoxville
Wilma Rudolph - Clarksville

 

[Clayton Endicott]

I can't forget cats not from Detroit like Magic, Floyd, and Al Green