I have a confession: I steal my hubby's "men's magazines."
When I see XXL or The Source in the mailbox I run upstairs, lock myself in my office, and flip through the articles. It's tough, though, when booty cheeks almost poke ya eye out. But I digress. (I really DO read the magazines for the articles). In the majority of the periodicals I've perused, rapper Drake always mugs me from the pages.
Drake has always picked my interest but I could never find a way to give my academic two cents. When the fabulous folks at Makin' It Magazine asked the question of Drake being parallel to President Barack Obama, the light came on. Can Drake be considered the epitome of flawless Hip Hop Masculinity? How does he navigate both the industry's expectations and social expectations of masculine performance in rap music?
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I love that you love our literature and culture. In colleges these days we're taught to study Japanese for business or France for art, everything but black. I like Drake because he didn't let the industry keep him in a box saying you just an actor named Jimmy on a TV show. My boy can write and sing too, big ups. Like water, our people move through the cracks, shapeshift into things we but he always knew we'd be yanno.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about Drake but if he's being compared to Obama, I want to check him out. A lot of the "old school" rappers had important things to say. I wonder who is the KRS-One of this generation?
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