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

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She's just a crossbreed, chick said it herself, she doesn't claim to be Black.

And yeah that "nikkas" song is garbage, ho should have never been allowed to record that bullshyt.

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Were you born in Angola? What city are you from?
 
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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.

:jbhmm:

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.

I don't think she's black by AA standards, but as you can see some dudes consider anybody with a single drop of black blood to be black.

I can live with a half white person claiming black, but if you're only like 20-30% African then you're not black to me.
 

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Yall nikkas man! Making shytt more difficult then it has to be lol.

Long as she ain't on that Rachel dolezal shyt,and we can check her pedigree she Gucci.how u gone dictate wether or not she can be black breh? ! Lol
 

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I don't think she's black by AA standards, but as you can see some dudes consider anybody with a single drop of black blood to be black.

I can live with a half white person claiming black, but if you're only like 20-30% African then you're not black to me.

See this is how what made me be ok with Drake for example. He's 50-50, so I can live with him claiming black.
Jessie Williams to me looks more on the cac-spectrum, but homie fights for the cause, identifies as black and his father is light-skin but black to me so I'm cool with dude too. This chick didn't claim black point blank period, she mentioned a bunch of ethnicities and then just basically left it to us to decide (based on black being a part of her ethnic make-up) whether it's cool for her or not to make a record talm bout nikkas.
This from what I've read so far – someone let me know if she claimed black above all else and it'll all become clear to me.:whoa:

And some AA's are cool with it, others are not, me I'm just confused. :francis: I'm just saying it'd be a bad look to those defending her blackness if she does a 180 down the line talking about: "I never said I was specifically black. I'm mixed aka grey area, meaning I can be who I wanna be when I wanna be.:win:"
Regardless of what she does it won't reflect on me, it'll reflect on AA's. I'm not worried as much as I am curious.
I guess what I'm saying is: fukk the ethnic salad she is, what's the base ingredient she's claiming? :manny:

Either way, thanks for the response breh. It's good to see where some of y'all stand.
 

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All this fuss over an average-ass, tatted up chola? :heh:
 

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It doesnt matter if shes mixed or white

She looks like she fukks nigs

Shes a pos then to me
Not to derail but 2 days in a row? Who the fuk are these weirdo cacs?

Second the whole "looks blk" arguement I won't engage in while in this part of the forum.

That song "nikkas" is lunacy :wtf:
Lets say if my homie & I sang instead of rap. I be a smaller/toned heavy d & he be a ginuwine type brotha makin bytches wanna touch his abs. If we sang "sistas ain't shyt, you can trust no sista" how the fuk would that play out? :stopitslime:

Not gonna bash melanin women like tlr but they support this type of "R&B?"
 

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Not to derail but 2 days in a row? Who the fuk are these weirdo cacs?

Second the whole "looks blk" arguement I won't engage in while in this part of the forum.

That song "nikkas" is lunacy :wtf:
Lets say if my homie & I sang instead of rap. I be a smaller/toned heavy d & he be a ginuwine type brotha makin bytches wanna touch his abs. If we sang "sistas ain't shyt, you can trust no sista" how the fuk would that play out? :stopitslime:

Not gonna bash melanin women like tlr but they support this type of "R&B?"
chris brown came out with these hoes ain't loyal so :yeshrug:
 

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she was on america's got talent with that group poplyfe they toured with a bunch of disney artists n shyt

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but fukk that mediocre garbage music hoe.

and no she don't get a pass for making a disgusting song like nikkas in what world is this "1/17th black chick" allowed to do that?

:childplease:
Ive never heard the song :manny: shes just one the most popular artist from the bay now and be with hbk/shmoplife a lot and if you seen her you probably wouldnt be thinking cac :manny: maybe from the outside looking in it looks like that but this not another krayshawn/v-nasty situation :sadcam: the bay cant take another hit like that :sadcam:
 
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