Blackface Response
May. 31, 20181 viewer
Blackface Response Lyrics
I know everyone is enjoying the circus but I want to clarify this image in question. This was not from a clothing brand shoot for my music career. This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast. The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment. Me and my best Friend at the time Mazin Elsadig who is also an Actor from Sudan were attempting to use our voice to bring awareness to the issues we dealt with all the time as black actors at auditions. This was to highlight and raise our frustrations with not always getting a fair chance in the industry, and to make a point that the struggle for black actors had not changed much
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Drake issued a statement regarding the photo Pusha-T used as the cover art for his diss track “The Story of Adidon.” The picture, taken by photographer David Leyes, depicts Drake in blackface. In an Instagram story that was shared via Drake fansite Word On Road, the rapper said he wanted to clarify the circumstances surrounding the photo, which was taken in 2007 when he was an actor.
There are actually two images the one you saw on the Pusha T album cover is presumed to be happy, the other is dark and sad. Both together actually presents a powerful duality of representation and race and its expectations on art.
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May 31, 2018
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