Considering we have seen racist Fox News hosts shame Kendrick to big up Drake for being a good little boy and not criticizing white people and Drake did nothing to stand up for the genre speaks volumes to the lack of integrity he has for the genre. Its funny that the only real time he brought up BLM and black issues was when it became clear that staying silent on those issues would be detrimental to one's career at that point.

Truly the Taylor Swift of hip hop

He has been pretty "silent" about those issues his entire career and he's more than fine. Try again.

Spot on tbh. It’s not even just Drake stans but c***music fans in general. I remember ktt was getting mad because niggas wanted to see everyone speaking up during the GF riots. It’s like what’s the issue with speaking up more? You mean these niggas making millions off us and they can’t even speak on the topics that effect us?

How is it trauma p***? This is such a f***ing stupid colored hair twitter core phrase.

Y’all just use it as a way to dismiss a type of rap music that drake doesn’t make.

Best believe if he had an all falls down or a alright type song that people repeatedly have found comfort/empowerment from during social movements y’all would be gassing it up. But since he doesn’t y’all wanna pretend like it doesn’t matter and it’s all “trauma p***”.

Y'all need to ask yourselves why you look to celebrities to speak out to make y'all feel better. That's what needs to be addressed here.

I still remember how many of you were angry at Kendrick and J. Cole because they hadn't "spoken out" about George Floyd's murder despite those people been outspoken about social justice issues in their music.

Y'all are just SHEEP, hopelessly waiting for famous people to lead you and that's the honest truth.

No he was never fine. Alot of you want to overshadow the fact that this boils down simply to insecurity. If Drake is going to let being called a biracial jew from canada stop him from talking about issues that are apart of the culture he fetishsizes so much, then why is he a goat? How can you be black and be insecure about talking about black issues?

Wait, that really happened? If true, knowing Drake he probably laughed at it instead of taking offense and being mad for Kendrick.

Y’all label that trauma p*** just to go bump Lil Baby and other rappers talking about their struggle and how it’s hard in the streets for them and their people and how they have folks that died to violence etc. that’s “struggle p***” as well. Y’all some bozos.

Kanye has those songs and is still an ignorant fool. Those songs don't mean s***. They're literally JUST songs.

I've never needed or even wanted Drake to make songs about those issues because that isn't what I want from his music. There are way more musicians and folks in the black community who are better informed who I can look to for comments about stuff like that.

How many times have y'all demanded a celebrity to speak out only for them to do so and because they don't say what y'all want them to say, y'all call them ignorant and cancel them?

Drake is 11 years into his career and y'all are still expecting negro spirituals from him, meanwhile y'all jump at every chance to mock him using the fact that he's biracial, Canadian and Jewish and y'all undermine his blackness at every turn. You can't have both.

He isn't the social justice warrior y'all want him to be and he won't ever be that and y'all see just gonna have to deal with it

I'm sure he can identify with racial injustice, police brutality, and discrimination from the perspective of a black Jew from Canada. That stuff does happen in Canada, and I'm sure he can find way to incorporate those experiences in Canada with his experiences in the US.

All in all he isn't required to be sociopolitical, it's just always been odd to me because like I said, the man has a massive platform. I doubt he'd take any serious loss if he were to just speak up more, if anything it'd only make him look better. The man is 33 still rapping/singing about high school level romances when we know he is capable of something more mature and harder hitting.

It's not a requirement to incorporate politics in your music. Though as a hip-hop artist at the top of their game...and the game in general. I feel like they should be eager to do so as hip-hop was a genre/culture created to act as a counter-culture and rebel against the powers that be, that's a topic for another thread.

That's how I'm feeling dealing with his stans itt

I ain't even say anything bad for him not doing it, and I've even said that he doesn't have to do it and they're still in their feelings.

He's more than fine. His career is fine. The few times he has spoken about, he's been met with criticism from the same black community he tried to speak out on behalf of and people always use him being Jewish, biracial and Canadian against him so he doesn't speak out.

Kendrick and J. Cole speak out, let them be your GOATs if that's the case. Drake will be fine, I promise you. Don't worry

Its true! Look at all the articles talkinabout “blackfishing” and white people pretending to be black online. Not just even for trump supporters. Look at all the little white boys on here with black avi’s writing threads s***ting on kanye and kendrick and praising drake.

Majority of americans (myself included) think the opposite and enjoy drake when he releases and if he has a good lasting song.

Most of you couldnt stand the fact that rap and black artists in general arent allowed, now you can talk about drake in the house cause hes not really black and your mom is singing “wap” making your breakfast cause Cardi isnt black.

Alot of you really gotta stop pushing these racist narratatives on here, you know drake looks stupid for ignoring these topics, funny thing is, drake ignoring these topics is what you want so you can look cool in front of white people 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

hey man relax

Show me where I said Drake has to speak out on s***?

Like you said Drake ain’t even from that type of environment to speak on that type of s***.

And you need to stop calling people sheep cause when George Floyd happened and drake put his lil poem on twitter you were one of the main users s***ting on Kendrick, Cole and Kanye for not making a statement. So f*** outta here

Drake doesn’t make that type of music that’s cool. It is what it is. But don’t trash other artists who wanna use their music/platform to say something. That’s my only issue with Drake stans when this topic comes up

Wipe Drake's c***from your eyes and learn how to read. If that's what you got from any of this your stanning has reached a point of serious mental illness and a lack of reading comprehension and I highly recommend you get that checked out before continuing further in this discussion.

A dababy stan talking about switching it up
Lol you cant make this s*** up

Man, shut up. This thread isn't even about that yet you found a way to make it about Drake stans. Weirdo clown. That's all you know how to do.

Like I said, Kendrick and Cole can make that music and after a while it becomes trauma p*** because guess what? Not everyone wants to listen to music like that and it's okay. Y'all wanted TPAB part 2 from Kendrick and he pivoted and made a DAMN. near Pop rap album because even he knows how exhausting it can be rapping about that s*** all the time. It takes a toll.

Kudos to everyone speaking on social issues and racial injustice and kudos to those who aren't.

To answer the title: maybe?

Does it matter? No

Would he get s*** on if he tried?
Being Canadian, (kinda) Jewish, light skin, no one really trying to hear present discourse from him

Even Taylor Swift has gotten more political than Drake man

Like I'm really not mad that he doesn't make songs about it. Maybe he really does feel like he has no place speaking about it being that he's from Canada. Maybe he feels he doesn't have the range to speak about it. But like...you can't get outdid by America's favorite white girl. That's just sad.

You clearly are pretty delusional as to how the tolerance for staying silent on liberal issues has changed over the years. After Trump's win, it started to become a big deal for celebrities to not stay silent on that with their fanbases and the media. Don't forget celebrities Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift got into a big amount of trouble for staying silent on these issues. Drake was just protecting the bag when he finally spoke on it.

Baby switched his flow a few times. You’re a casual fan that mainly listen to Drake and artists associated with Drake so I wouldn’t expect for you to actually listen to his music.

You’re making this some type of speak out competition lol

That’s weird

maybe he sells so much because he doesn't talk about it

Just cause some people don’t wanna hear it doesn’t make it trauma p***.

Trauma p*** just another pseudo woke buzzword and you stans adopted it to defend drake. It is what it is