So i guess this cac Kehlani is the new face of rnb

[jerzboy]

They are the same color with and without a tan.& they both have curly hair. K has fuller lips and a rounder nose. They both look like they're mixed with black to me.

Thank u!!!

If people want to be real, Kehlani has more BLACK features than Tinashe....

 

[Swagnificent]

This chick is not black

a girl this fine and u muthafukkas are fighting over what race she is?

 

[Extralame]

Thank u!!!

If people want to be real, Kehlani has more BLACK features than Tinashe....

Neither of them look black to me

a girl this fine and u muthafukkas are fighting over what race she is?

Well.. we aren't discussing her attractiveness. The OP called her a cac and that led to a discussion about race.

Some people think that everything that doesn't look 100% white = black.
Its mindsets like this that allowed Rachel Dolezal get away with that ish. Not everyone is black.

 

[reserved_one]

I always considered Kehlani to be mixed....and I checked her music out and she sounds like every black hipster chick on soundcloud rehashing 90's R&B sounds with a 808 kit that have no creativity and can't sing a lick. She's doing what Tinashe/Jhene Aiko does better.

The "nikkas" song proves my point. Muthafukkas would've got straight laughed out the room if they wrote some shyt like this for Aaliyah/Mariah Carey back in the day.

She is cute and has a nice body tho....Thats the only thing she has going.

 

[Claudex]

See now, to me – a full Angolan-African male – this is where it gets confusing honestly.
I respect AA's ownership and standards of blackness so I usually just try my best to understand it. Like, where I'm from "mixed" can be an ethnicity whereas in the US/Canada a white parent and a black parent makes you black regardless of which you look most like (i.e. Drake).

In most Bantu traditions, regarding one's origins, you are the continuation of your father's lineage. So that made it easier for me to see how AA's could embrace a mixed person as black.
It appears that due to the type of slavery in the US, things go a little different since a white father won't save you from being seen as black by society. So I just figured that in the US/Canada the "father rule" had to transform itself into a "parent rule" where even having a black mama makes you black as part of her lineage.

But admittedly my African sense of lineage makes it hard for me to appreciate the "Oh I'm 12% black and identify as that" argument. It really does, and this thread is about a woman that makes my mind revisit this same confusion within. I say confusion because I ain't finna decide for an American what he/she is (so long as she doesn't claim to be what I am) but at the same time I'm trying to rationalize how she fits in the "African" mold that I share with Darker skinned Americans.



Fact is, she looks beyond mixed to me. More Rita Ora like than Anything, so her having a song titled "nikkas" doesn't sit too well with me personally. Even if I acknowledge I ain't got the right to decide whether she's cool to do it or not, that's on y'all American brehs.
But I'll keep reading the thread. Perhaps it'll become less confusing eventually.

TL;DR: Is she black by AA standards or not? Someone help me break this down real quick 'cause I'm confused. She looks pretty white to me, even Rachel Dola-something looked more black than her (when she was actively trying to look black).

Edit: Clarification.

 

[Black]

 

[IllmaticDelta]

TL;DR: Is she black by AA standards or not? Someone help me break this down real quick 'cause I'm confused. She looks pretty white to me, even Rachel Dola-something looks more black than her.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

her bf is partynextdoor and i'm pretty sure she's from like south central either way she's not a cac. she might be one of those light skinned hispanic joint or she biracial

i fukk with her mixtape, her album did nothing for me though. she's gearing towards tinashe status just give it 6 more months

 

[Claudex]

I meant when Rachel was actively trynna look black she managed to look more black than this K-chick.

 

[Kane]

They are the same color with and without a tan.& they both have curly hair. K has fuller lips and a rounder nose. They both look like they're mixed with black to me.

It's less about skin color and more about features. Kehlani doesn't have the features of any black person I've ever seen. If I saw her walking down the street I'd think she was Hispanic or Polynesian.

When I first saw Tinashe I just thought she was a light skin black chick. I didn't even think she had a white parent until I saw a pic of her mom.

 

[director_of_bands]

tats and nose ring is filthy looking what a waste...I bet she's one of the 'cac when convenient' types who know how to play both sides to their advantage....

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

nikkas want her to be black so bad its disgustingb

Know I understand that @blackestofpanthers thread about "nikkas"

just say she's biracial damn y'all nikkas going to both extreme

also if drake a jew can get away with saying nikkas y'all can't be checking a biracial chick like her just sayin cuz gotta keep it 100

 

[Starski]

See now, to me – a full Angolan-African male – this is where it gets confusing honestly.
I respect AA's ownership and standards of blackness so I usually just try my best to understand it. Like, where I'm from "mixed" can be an ethnicity whereas in the US/Canada a white parent and a black parent makes you black regardless of which you look most like (i.e. Drake).

In most Bantu traditions, regarding one's origins, you are the continuation of your father's lineage. So that made it easier for me to see how AA's could embrace a mixed person as black.
It appears that due to the type of slavery in the US, things go a little different since a white father won't save you from being seen as black by society. So I just figured that in the US/Canada the "father rule" had to transform itself into a "parent rule" where even having a black mama makes you black as part of her lineage.

But admittedly my African sense of lineage makes it hard for me to appreciate the "Oh I'm 12% black and identify as that" argument. It really does, and this thread is about a woman that makes my mind revisit this same confusion within. I say confusion because I ain't finna decide for an American what he/she is (so long as she doesn't claim to be what I am) but at the same time I'm trying to rationalize how she fits in the "African" mold that I share with Darker skinned Americans.



Fact is, she looks beyond mixed to me. More Rita Ora like than Anything, so her having a song titled "nikkas" doesn't sit too well with me personally. Even if I acknowledge I ain't got the right to decide whether she's cool to do it or not, that's on y'all American brehs.
But I'll keep reading the thread. Perhaps it'll become less confusing eventually.

TL;DR: Is she black by AA standards or not? Someone help me break this down real quick 'cause I'm confused. She looks pretty white to me, even Rachel Dola-something looked more black than her (when she was actively trying to look black).

Edit: Clarification.

no.


I judge blackness by asking a simple question....would she stand out where i live? and she would. She is mixed race. 1`same as tinashe.

 

[MVike28]

You colI nikkas are fukking retarded, this is a black chick, I mean her fukking name is Kehlani

bytch's music is wack but I'd smash and if she makes it we'll probably eat good when one of her exes leak that sex tape...just be patient and stop calling every mixed chick y'all see a cac.

It didn't take too long for a fakkit to come in with a freshly pressed cape

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

This.....

I don't get it.... People pick and choose who they define as black.

And people having a problem with her saying nikka.... What about Drake????

People gon learn black comes in all shades and features.

hold up these people are only 50% black

yo if they go to the motherland them nikkas gone look at them like go home white people today is not the day