The TRUTH About Who’s REALLY Not Like Us | Hypocritical Colorism Exposed! Not Like Us Video Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Kendrick Lamar released the highly anticipated music video for his smash hit “Not Like Us”. The video featured his baby mama with mixed ancestry sparking more interest into who’s “us” and who’s “they”.
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Channels like this don't get it. Like sis they only agree when you're calling out black women, but not those they put on a pedestal. The mixed women get a pass even against you. Lol!
This isn't true though. Men are held accountable for their actions
This is an emotional and false comment. PBL just call it as it is that’s facts.
@@bibicayman1790 this is about culture. You feel Drake from Toronto. Is the same as Whitney from Compton?
@@StuartCallendarWhitney has a whole White mother. Black Americans are are not Biracial.
@@Paul-r5g Her mother is Albanian and Romanian. A White woman.
Rick Ross called him white boy, not Kendrick. Kendrick is talking about how Drake plays into his black side when it’s beneficial to him, but not when it comes to activism. I will say, Pink Book makes a great point that many brown and dark skin black men criticize light skin men yet love them some light skin women at the same time. Two things can be true.
Agreed!!
@@theregularlifestyle so when does he play into his “white side”?
Great comment!
@@inpursuitofexcellence750bro as a 100% black man I couldn’t imagine being mixed because i definitely have moods where I feel chill or I feel aggressive and this dumb folks gonna say oh your playing to your black side today. Like WTH you are what you are.
@@TyrillCelestine bro you ain’t lying! I’m asking people to explain these terms. Most of them heard it from someone else and can’t unpack what they mean. Folks don’t like Drake cuz he ain’t from the hood and he’s cocky. Plus he’s half white and PBL stated most folks just have a problem with that and is now bold enough to admit it.
The argument is a bit reductionist. This isn’t about race. It’s about Black American culture.
You say not about race, then say it's about black American culture. That's race
@@christucker8🤦🏿♀️
@@latebloomer177Why do you seem confused? He’s RIGHT. Black American culture is from Black American people which are a DISTINCT group of people, lmao.
@@jeff0064 he's biracial at best. He's not black
Lmao you must have a white or Hispanic woman wife.. sir it’s every simple, it’s for BLACK AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I normally rock with u heavy but you over thought this he was talking about ppl coming over here cos playing in the blk American culture when it's convenient for them it had nothing to do with being Bi🤦🏿♂️ it's all about being Ados/FBA nothing more
Everybody comes in the black community and cosplay. Where the hell have you been? Black culture is for everybody. Black people let everyone in that’s the problem.
If Drake gets a slap on the wrist so does everybody else. I bet you he considered his biracial babymomma black dancing and crip walking all in the video. She’s cosplaying as well. Stop making excuses for their hypocrisy.
@@NekoNebula1313 Back in the day there was no created (from insecurity) labels like ADOS/FBA to position self for a check that isn’t coming.
Plus alienating ppl when, alone you can’t petition the gov for reparations without a coalition. Ask how u build that and you get an argument about “deserving”, “we built”. Because there is no argument for a path that doesn’t involve others “ or like us”.
Allll this ish is just a lament, posing and signaling.
Actually it's 1st generations born in America, who had no exposure to their parents country's culture and only know FBA culture. And that's alot of them.
Believe me, we would reject them too because they are too far removed from their parents culture so it's up to FBA to deal with the.l..
Drake family his black family is from Memphis if you people actually listen to his music he explains how he used to visit and live in poor areas with his other side of the family
But everyone want drake dead lmao i get it
@@lance-rc4mxu slow and definitely just proved you're a drake fanboy.
No girl, you’re wrong. It’s about Drake being a culture vulture and appropriating a culture “Black American” culture that is not who he is. Whitney is mixed but she’s from LA and was raised as Black American
Chile please.
Isn't Eminem a culture vulture?
@@jeremiahsams2848 yes he is, what does that have to do w the conversation at hand?
Since when, we stoop so LOW to include and involve Children in a Beef over Money and Envy?
Children are always OUT of Bounds!
Please keep your Neophyte Proclivities to yourself, Respectfully.
My Hubris is coming out, SMH!
How does "raised as African American" work?
Very rarely has PBL had a take that I didn't agree with.... No one's perfect. You are appreciated. 🙏🏾
She didn't lie about shit. She told the TRUTH. Kendrick is a hypocrite just look at his baby mama. She mixed just like drake.
That white boi talk wouldn't work on Cole, cause Cole has actually spoke on and talk about on black issues. Drake and Cole are different when it comes to black issues.
Facts
Cole a wannabe who wants to be loved by the Blacks.
@@manman3792 it’s not about race. J Cole grew as an American Black Man culturally unlike Drake who was raised in a WHITE Canadian Jewish upper class gated community culture.
@@jmduke401 what ever Kendrick tells you works will work, thats why we call yall glazers but its whatever I see straight through Kendrick and I won't let him divide.
I identify as black...
My tacial heritage is
Black, Navajo, Scottish Gaelic...
I was born a stone's throw from Sheppard AIR FORCE BASE in Wichita Falls TEXAS...
My African blood flows from the Zulu craals. My Scottish blood is Fron Robert the Bruce and Angus MacLeod... My Navajo blood comes from Manuelito...
So tell me Kendrick who like US?
Ican trace my heritage to MANY proud bloodlines... I don't hold that over people's heads... Who's land is this I thought it belong to Native Americans... Be careful...
Know thyself...
Usually I agree with you sis but you missed with this one. RickRoss called him white boy not kdot.Kdot is referring to how Drake is moving coming from a comfortable upbringing in Canada. from what I read Whitneys mother is mixed race & father is AA which makes Whitney 1/4 white. She is more black than Drake if u want to be technical. She may be kdot's babymomma but they have been together forever just like my parents (for over 40 years with no marriage certificate) Don't make everything about colorism girl, it's giving PICK ME bitter vibes. Coming from a dark skinned sister, respectfully
Yep, she is waaaay off
Thank you !!! Sounds so bitter !! And the point of “ they not like us” totally flew over her head .
Wow 40 years and never married. Thats not a flex. It’s actually sad. A lifetime in a relationship and no benefits or
Marital security.
@@Ms.Tamara_ You can legally have all the benefits and protections of a marriage without actually having the state all in your business
Thank you, it's ridiculous that she feels the need to insert herself into this situation and clearly doesn't understand it well enough at all. I was surprised to see a video on it cuz she already said before that she that it was foolish... Not even understanding the real context Ave history behind it.
It's Drake's actions that Kendrick came for.
Dark skin women attack this topic everychance they get I swear.
@@icojewelsprettynails na he and Ross tried to put that Caucasian tag on him although he spent times in Memphis with his dad growing up. Pd Allegations are pending waiting for witnesses, lawsuits, police reports or families speaking out.
A lie.
I don’t think it was about the race but drake only being apart of the hip hop/black American culture when it benefits him.
So he father being African American means nothing?
his father is black what are you talking about!
Hes half white and black, you and nobody else gets to tell someone how and how much they should represent the black community especially when the doing more means being more "hood/ratchet"! Im mixed and wish a mf would try to tell me a gd thing im suppose to do!🙄😒
@darkpower6406 @@darkpower6406one or both of @@darkpower6406If a black politician only connected or addressed the American black community/culture when it was time for votes then separated themselves immediately after, would you say they are apart of it as well just because they are black?
@mackcity74gdn89 most rappers aren't they come from good backgrounds but portray hood images but yall say nothing unless they are mixed or something smh lol
It don’t matter to me.. Kendrick took the W
He was cap rapping thou
Tether@@TyrillCelestine
Exactly. I just don’t like Drake.
@@SoufBySoufeast dude I’m from Louisiana 🤣🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ 🤡
@@jackdamenace13 glad you said it that all that it really comes down too
You hit the nail on the head with this one! Hypocrisy and irony all up and through!
So much of it, I can’t 😂
Why are we acting like there aren't different versions of mixed people? You tellin me a Canadian thats mixed who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. Is the same as being mixed and growing up in Compton? 😂😂
Had Drake grew up in Memphis right in the midst of Black American Hip-Hop culture. That angle would be void. We don't care he's mixed. We care cause he is tryina be somebody he's not. Yall knew J. Cole was half white before he said it? Cause it was news to me. Bob Marley is half white. Do Jamaicans care? Hell nah cause he's of their CULTURE.
And stop with the babymama disrespect. A BM is a woman you have kids with that you're no longer with. If they're engaged use the proper term. Since we being technical.
@@CleanEnergy. Bob was also raised poor by a black mom and grew in the culture his dad was a deadbeat and majority of his kids are black. His wife is black. J Cole was taught about his black heritage and is from NC. Faith Evans is half white and was raised by a black woman in a black neighborhood, so was singer Tamia. These ppl don’t benefit off their blackness when they want
I agree with everything you said . The difference is Whitney is culturally black. Drake is culturally white Jewish . This pink lessons chick always seems bitter this is why I don’t watch this channel . Only came on to see this mess she had to say regarding this situation . Clearly , she made it about colorism and “ the they not like us” concept flew over her head .
@CleanEnergy. Black American "Culture" has it's roots in poor Southern redneck culture.
All facts!🔥🖤
👏🏾👏🏾 sometimes she gets on a high horse that she really needs to come down off of...
I don’t think that’s what Kendrick meant. It’s a cultural thing not a race thing. The problem is not that Drake is mix race. The problem is his character.
@@jdessources2573 cope
@@Okita78I don’t personally believe Kendrick thinks Drakes son is black. He obviously isn’t but until Kendrick personally says what he meant by the lyrics then it’s all up to interpretation.
@@gregkareem9824 lol you mean facts
He did call drake a colonizers in that song.
So, could you explain Drake's character?
I agree with some points you made but I disagree with your point about Not Like US being about mixed race people . Kendrick called Drake a colonizer because many of Drake’s hits come from him imitating the flows, sounds, and even flat out copying the songs of artists that are emerging at any given time from a
certain region. Atlanta is where he uses this tactic the most since they dominated the mainstream in the 2010s.
He gets away with it most of the time due to the emerging sounds, songs, and artists being unknown to the mainstream. But he was caught and criticized for doing this to XXXTentacion who actually reached mainstream success. But lots of other artists do it not just Drake even some of our favorite artists that we consider the greats.
He did Chicago first.... Gherbo, Lil Bibby and others
@@hithere99100 He actually started using his appropriation tactics in the Toronto area. He even took a lot of songs from The Weeknd.
That’s quite the denial
Exactly 💯
Then use that same energy either every other artist that does that. Which is ALL of them. The steal other styles beats and momentum all the type.
The real problem is that a lot of Black people from the diaspora. Come to America, copy our culture, and then turn around and say we don't have one. All the while cos playing as us! Busta Rhymes did that, and so did Canadian rapper Pressa! Or like how H.E.R. won a Grammy and gave thanks to the Philippines! In Black American culture, bi-racial people have always been Black! We don't have a cast system here, like foreigners from other countries in Africa and the Caribbean! This is about culture and lineage, and checking foreigners who participate in the culture, but disrespects the people of the culture! We are the only people who have been pushing Pan-Africanism! And it doesn't work because other groups are to tribal or doesn't see themselves as Black at all!
In that vein no black should ever sing rock, or pop or country or classical misic.
Caste system in Africa😂😂😂africa is huge.africans hve been known to be nice to other people to thier own detriment.if knew wat africans hve gone th😢through u wouldn't be talking about africans😂😂😂
@@nnamdiazuakola5254 we created those genres the problem is we didn't gate keep like others in the past but we're keeping the same energy now and everyone is uncomfortable
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A Jamaican was a major contributor to Pan-Africanism movement in the US. Stop the separation. As an activist that is out there demonstrating whenever a black man dies at the hands of yt police brutality, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that African Americans, Caribbean and African people are there on one accord. What satisfaction is gained by dividing black people? I remember the mantra being plainly “BLM” and not Black American lives only. Stop this ish.
“All my skinfolk ain’t my kinfolk.” Zora Neale Hurston
Everybody wants to be black until it’s time to be black..#B1 #FBA
Exactly!
@@B1Speech Pretty much. They want and claim everything but the burdens.
Lol 😆 no they don't
This is about Black American or FBA culture...usually agree with u...not on this one...his wife is from the same hood...
The point is wife is not a Black woman.
Cope harder glazers 😂
Equating being from the hood to being black is nasty work. It doesn’t matter where you are from, black is black.
It’s about suffrage and struggle …..
In addition to the fact she’s brown
@@brittanywillis6567 mixed race.
4:20 here's an easy explanation....she's not Canadian....you were right on the part of it being Drake not being American because, you paid attention to when he was calling Drake a colonizer but didn't notice how he called his son a Black Man....this isn't colorism that makes Drake not like us, it's Drake being raised in a different country where he couldn't have learned about his father's descendant's past - ultimately his own. He isn't like us because he was raised NOT to be like us, trying to BE like us... Crazy how this came up more clearly with Kendrick instead of Budden or Push
That's being fake because his son is definitely not a black man.
“Run to America to imitate heritage, they can’t imitate this violence” -Kendrick Lamar
Are you saying that children of military personnel who were born and raised In Places where their parents are deployed are not like us because they weren’t raised in US.
@@libraalibaba Why isn't he?? Logic has the same skin tone and his dad is black too... you doing the same thing that's yall tryna call Kendrick out for doing that angle...Adonis tho born from France or sumn, that's different but his dad is still black
@@nnamdiazuakola5254 You are comparing soldiers who are ordered to deploy in other states and their kids to Dennis who screwed up and did jail time while Drizzy was in Canada 🤡🤡
-Your juxtaposition doesn't co-relate when those kids can celebrate July 4th or Juneteenth greater by heritage
Drake said he’s the black messiah lifting up a mixed queen
I’m from L.A, around Kendrick age, colorism was huge growing up, the light skin girls were fetishized and placed on a pedestal…
Same as always. PBL is right here but as usual the men don't want to acknowledge it because Whitney is a "preference".
TMH cautioned against making good bad and vice versa. He also asserted that the ones who are low will be elevated... because we are His creation. The enemy has the world desiring the unnatural.
Slavery my Boi slavery
I’m from so cal myself, saying colorism“Was” huge is wrong, California black dudes are colorist to this day and it’s not changing.
@@divardo1408 so does his baby mommaa fool
Culture, race, ethnicity, and genealogy all different things and meanings
Descendants of Black American Slave have one meaning
@@pinkbooklessons mixed people have the blood of African American slave descendants as well.
@@pinkbooklessons mixed race people can have the blood of African American slave descendants
Kendrick didn't call Drake white. That was Rick Ross.
He called him a colonizer.... same difference. He's smashing a colonizer!
He told him he couldn’t say the Nword anymore😂😂
So when he called Drake a "colonizer," who do you think he was comparing him to?
Keep playing the victim, you're doing a good job.
@@sicksadworld6221 so black ppl cant be colonizers?
This is about lineage and culture! We are delinieating as Foundational Black Americans. Drake is not one of us. PERIOD.
Isn't his father a black american?
This is just what MLK had in mind when he said judge people by the "content of their character". There are some truly brilliant people in this comment section.
@HighMaintenanceMinimalist His dad is black American, But Drake was raised in a Jewish suburb, by Canadian whites. That upbringing could not be further away from the African American experience. (This is also Kamala Harris experience except with Indians in Canada. And Obama in Hawaii with whites) None of them are Foundational Black Americans.
@@kurtgainz Both of Kamala's parents are immigrants. Barack's dad is from Kenya. Neither is the same as Drake. Black Americans are not a monolith...believe it or not, you don't all have the same upbringing and life experiences. You guys love moving the goal post at your convenience, which is why nobody takes you seriously.
@kurtgainz Kamal Harris was born in California and attended a HBCU.
Good Points... You made a lot of good points
So we don't forget about the fact that this boy has been accused allegedly of messing around with underage girls. If you going to analyze something then analyze the entire song Don't talk about just one aspect of the song because he talked about a lot of things in that song. Going to be clear it wasn't just black people that have something to say about this damn near the whole world has something to say about this.
Did people ever think this song’s interpretation was open? There’s no definitive? Look it up 😂
Please post facts and not “ hear say” post the facts and stop the propaganda…. and NO I don’t listen to either of them.
Where is the evidence?
Are you saying that calling someone a pedophile with no actual substantial proof to back up those allegations is a disgusting and reprehensible move? Because if so, I agree completely.
And there was no proof for any of these accusations, all the women came out and publicly defended Drake
Danggggg I usually agree with your opinions…..you missed the whole mark with this one 😅😅😅
She missed nothing
@@awelechukwuemeka1382u just slow. Or a drake fan
Hypocrites can’t handle the truth!
@@awelechukwuemeka1382she sound smart to the low IQs
@@marcusrougeau5347 it's not about being a fan I saw through Kendricks b.s
And not to mention Drake has never publicly stood up for 1 black issue but always ready to say the N word not like us means Drake is picking and choosing when he wants to be black n u can't deny that from the footage we've seen
so he has to bend the knee to be black? and if they don't support "black issues" they aren't black?
Kendrick stood up for gang members.
@@yaboizae drake literally boycotted the grammys due to them not recognizing hip hop yet kenny loves slurping his overlords awards which is why drake hit at him about the grammy in family matters. Problem is you npc bots cant really think for yourself or do your own research and just parrot what hip hop media tells you.
They give out n word passes @ blm rallies ? If he black he can say it period
Drake is biracial. Idk why black ppl want non blacks to stick up for them. Black is black and biracial is biracial.
Y'all are team Kendrick so you're not being intellectually honest. I'm around Kendrick's age, grew up around the corner from him and I can see what's going on clear as day. That's why he said, " Once upon a time all of US was in chains, homie still double down calling US some slaves." Who do you think the US is referring to 😂 HE made it about race. You can spin it however you like. Why do you think the FBA crowd is latching on so tough to the hashtag #Notlikeus? In this case, Kendrick is no different than Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the usual race hustlers. They know how to get y'all all riled up and onboard with their self serving causes SMH. It's divisive.
Your observation is valid.
@@jstun2318 Kendrick is creating wealth for himself and maybe a handful of other blacks. With his song he is causing more division amongst black and mixed people. Drake is free to make to rap music and whoever else that wants. He is a part of rap culture.
@@Mrs.K.Holifield Regardless, he was still referring to a specific group, which we all know.
His wife looks like Drake's possible sister😂
Pink Book this was a lyrical beef that was happening for years!
This issue is more about behavior than color particularly Drake's behavior over the years. Wayne told Drake at the very beginning to keep it Canadian and don't feel pressured into talking tough and acting like you grew up in Government Housing. Fast forward to today and Drake is out here acting like a mob boss. Kendrick lays all this out in his lyrics on his diss tracks if you people would just listen. Tyla don't get no love because she wants to go on black platforms and dictate what questions are allowed to be asked acting like a industry plant. She needs to stop worrying about other people's feelings and speak her truth. If she identifies as a color woman just say that who cares what other people think.
Y’all sound real short bus.
I have been saying this. It’s more than obvious. The truth is everyone knows but nobody wants to say it out loud. Great video and great points.
The song is about how Drake is not like the black American rappers and the people who inspired the rap and hip hop genre . Drake is an imitator. He draws from black culture but doesn’t come from it.
What does that mean?? 😂😂
Hip hop is our culture?
Whatever the f that's supposed to mean. The ✡️ record label owners are not of our culture either but they make the most money off of us. PBL is right about how you mfs wanna pick and choose who is part of the culture.
Not just black American culture, can't stand how he trying to talk in UK slang like he's actually from here or patios like he's from Jamaica. Just cringe. Dude does not know his true identity wherever he goes that's his accent.
Drake's father is from Memphis Tennessee and his uncle is a legendary bassist from Sly and the Family Stone and Graham Central Station. All that and Drake never mentioned them in his own defense. Drake is of the culture whether y'all wanna believe it or not.
I wish Black people would focus more on more important issues. Too many of us are always distracted on some nonsense! How about education and financial literacy? No, people are arguing about who's "Black"...SMH
If you're non fba go focus on that with your tribe. We can handle ours...if you're fba like us stay on code then brotha don't down your own.
@@tau566 lmao fba for what? Drop this loser stuff and get a life
@@tau566fawk y’all code! You completely missed that this person is saying.
@pcliftonjr this IS the awakening, we have been so hurt by not fitting in, and blinded by Trojan horses who continued to win off of our contributions all while we tried to be accepted by "them". Now we are beginning to understand , we better off not being accepted and that our culture is something very worthy of being proud of and safeguarding. We are no longer offended by those who not rockn with us. Why? Because they are not like us. If u don't agree with our frustrations about this shitstem....it's cool because we now understand 😎
@@BrownSkinCutie01 Go take that up with Africans or Caribbeans.
If Drake was 100% black he wouldn't have been called a colonizer, so it's obviously rooted in race.
Pink Book Lessons, appreciate you have the heart to make this video. Stand 10 toes down.
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As a woman from Jamaica, I consider myself BLACK because of the color of my skin and my ancestors
You aren’t Black.
race and nationality
@leslieloudermilk3876 I don't know much about the Drake and Kendrick beef, I didn't even listen to the song or watch the music video. Lol, so I don't know the meaning or the message behind his song.
@ireloaded3352 tbh I am not outraged. I know that I probably should be because he capitalized off the culture.
You are black. You’re a black Jamaican. I’m a black American. Same race, different nationalities.
Kendrick DEFENDED the White & Australian Iggy Azealia when Black people (especially Black Women called her out for apropriating Black American culture), and said that she was more than welcome into Hip-Hop, despite not being from the culture in any shape or form whatsoever, but he got all this energy for Drake who has a Black American father from Tennessee??? And I don't even like Drake, nor Kendrick, never have & clocked Kendrick's hoteppi'n centuries ago. This whole beef just confirmed EVERYTHING I had suspected of him already! 😂
Right. If Drake was so problematic, why have black male rappers been making songs and money with him for over 15 years. This doesn’t make sense if they are the supposed keepers of the culture.
@@kas3la That was 9 years ago. If that was recent then I would understand your point. People can't change their perspectives? Other than being "sensitive" what was his pov of Drake at that time?
Thank you
If Drake didn't work with any black artists, yall would be sayin he hates his black side. So when he does work with black artists he's a vulture. Pick a struggle already smh...
We're picking the side of vulture because it actually happened and isn't a hypothetical that you made up.
@@tau566 K Dot said Iggy Azalea had a place in the culture. That ain't hypothetical, but Drake is a problem. Make it make sense.
@jemariochaney8589 ok, that's hypocrital. That's what you should've led with. Not some made up what if about Drake not working with black artists.
@@tau566 all good
The difference between J.Cole and Drake is J.Cole talks about Black Issues. Drake may have donated $$
Is j cole better because he supported organizations that scammed black people. It’s better for celebrities to avoid politics.
J. Cole actually met with marchers during the riots. Drake gave money away but made sure the cameras were there to record.
I'll take the money
@@Butterflies515 supported the blm scam that uses the death of black men to push an lgbtq agenda that excludes black men is good. Better for an artist to be non political
"They not like us" and if you don't like it, too bad Kendrick Won😂😂
Won what? I’d like to know
@@derricktyler9635 The fleeting admiration of an audience that will turn on him later.
@@DannyDoGood 🤣 great point
@@DannyDoGoodpretty much 🤣🤣🤣.
@@DannyDoGoodfacts. Honestly, there’s no dog in this fight at all. Both Kendrick & Drake are sellouts.
The irony. I don’t ever trust the industry.
That part ⬆️
Hmm….. I don’t think this is what he meant. But I digress
Speak on it pink Book
You 💯 on this one! 🤷🏾♂️
First video that I don’t agree with pbl
The difference is Drake (mixed) is accused of pimping the culture in the name of foundational American blackness AND culture. Kendrick Lamar's baby mama (mixed) has children with a black man and is a part of American black culture. Big difference!
@@DaSmoov54 you say she is part of the culture simply because she had children (out of wedlock) with a black man. That doesn't make her black though, and at any time she can leave and go have relationships or associations with any other race. There are a lot of thick white women who exclusively date black men and have children by them.
By your logic, they're all part of black culture? Because they can use black slang and are baby mamas to black men? That's the bar for being a part of the culture? That's *not* "pimping the culture" by wanting to be part of the culture by speaking the lingo and riding Black D??
Also no one can help who their parents are.
But Akedmics for example is also a culture vulture, dude is of jamaican decent and always in FBA business cos playing and eating off us. I get what he is saying , I think some people are intentionally not understanding. Clearly it's deeper than light and dark
@@MissDZhae-px2ju i agree 100%!
@@MissDZhae-px2juso I guess DJ Kool Herc who created hip hop and was born in Jamaica is a culture vulture??? Slick Rick, Grandmaster flash, Doug E. Fresh, Krs-1, etc….
@walewilliams6298 dj kool herc didn't create hip hop, that's been proven and he has said that out his mouth. Also, people like Slick Rick have their own style, slick rick, don't rap in a southern accent, and have always shown respect, so he gets respect. It's not hard to get, I can't help drake one minute is Puerto Rican , then Jamaican, then from HoustAtlantaVegas . You need to check out microphone check, their is absolute evidence that debunks Kool herc .
But they love mixed women though. 😂😂
Absolutely. The goalpost is adjusted for them.
@@God-7____i thought her mom was Norwegian and Albanian?
Everybody else wants to define who "They" or "Us" actually is; yet no one is asking the person that wrote the song.
They’ll all be crying again if he actually told them the truth.
He clearly put it in his music they= PDF's, artists using ghostwriter, non Americans portraying black hood culture shall I go on?
@@ghettyYou clearly understand every quote Kendrick made but ironically misquoted every single line that drake made. Specially that "Free the slaves" line that I constantly see being taken out of context.
Kendrick is always ambiguous to his own benefit
Facts @@liyahthomas1851
Thanks again for another great video pointing out facts.
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This why I love pink.. she gonna call out the bs when she see it
I appreciate you 🙏
@@pinkbooklessons thank u ma'am
The rap beef was always about who you like. All the associate arguments were just means to justify rocking with whoever you wanted to rock with. Hypocrisy is thick because no one was trying to apply logic to this. kendrick fan felt he won as soon as he spoke. Drake fans were the same. On the race issue. America is never going to be real on race colorism or macro/micro division, because the truth on those issues is going to trigger/hurt a lot of feelings all around.
If you gonna claim or agree that you ARE black culture, stand on that and be prepared for slings and arrows. If you fake about it, you gonna get called out.
@@area51discgolf what does that mean? “You are the culture”? He has a birthright to the culture since he’s half black. Just like we let Obama come into the hood. Just like Kamala was the “first black woman vp”. You can’t gate keep the culture from its own children.
@@inpursuitofexcellence750 again, stand on it! Be that! But if you fake, you gonna get called out.
@@area51discgolf stand on what? Man yall just be talking. Can’t back it up with no kinda logic.
@@inpursuitofexcellence750 sounds like your issue is with KL. Drake is fake, Obama is not..clear enough for you?
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Drake boycotted the Grammy’s because of how they were treating black artist.
Plus--We literally hold no one else to that standard. Not Future, not Playboi Carti, not Kodak, Not Youngboy, not Biggie, not Big L, not Young Thug, not Daz or Kurupt. No Birdman not Rick Ross. It Drake has to become an activist before he can say the word nigga? In fact most of this music perpetuates our dysfunction. Drake raps about girls and money. King Von rapped about people that he killed? Is King Von the culture?
Malcolm X warned us that they will try to make our entertainers our leaders.
You missed the mark with this one PBL. Still a fan, gonna watch your other videos, etc etc. But you definitely missed the point of this particular song/beef.
Totally
Regardless of what the reason behind the beef is, he is contradicting himself. Im a huge lamar fan, but when i found this out even i was like "wait, what, but....."
I noticed how you say that with no explanation. Makes me think she hit the mark since she explained and you didn't.
Exactly what did she say wrong she spoke the truth he wanna be pro black but still having sex with non black womenfolk but this is they champion and they pick a hill to die on
She didnt though. She called out the hypocrisy of it, which is the point YALL are missing. Yall are dealing with cognitive dissonance because your fave rapper is being critiqued for his hypocrisy.
2 issues: selective outrage & hipocrisy.
Yeah. That's what I got from watching this video.
I'm lighter skinned but I'm not mixed and I've still been rejected by other black people and told I'm not black. Lighter skinned black people get treated terribly by darker skinned black people.
@@skip031890 Hugs to you. I'm sorry you've been through this.
As an African, I understand that what Kendrick meant had nothing to do with Drake not being black, it’s about Drake exploiting black culture when it suits him. Kendrick dropped the song on the 4th of July and you should’ve noticed they were many white people in the crowd in the video clip.
As an African you're not part of any conversation about American Black people.
@@ldiggs9072but u want to be part of the conversation about africa right.spare us😂😂😂
@@EA-dweller so Drake isn't black... Just when it suits him... Otherwise he's white. Okay got it.
@@ldiggs9072 Your African slave great…..grandfather and great….grandmother would be ashamed of your ignorant comment. Smfh.
@@ronn3988 never...Africa is for Africans I'm a black American. America belongs to me and my black people.
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
His wife his wife! Lmbo, I am on the floor, you tell em P. book lesson.😎🤣😅😎
You lot don't even realize that dividing black people like this will ensure that our people will never be liberated. It's even down to mixed people too, which have historically been considered just as black as the non-mixed in your country. The algorithms have reeked havoc on the cause.
1000 percent !
Our people will never be liberated because it takes Us to stand up. We stopped standing when Dr King Jr passed away. Ain't nothing out there with my skin tone except disparity.
Thank Kendrick and Ross for the division 🤷♂️ That’s the angle they chose to take on this beef
True! Instead of you guys to assemble all black people in the world and make a revolution you guys are also looking down of us your fellow black people who share the same color like we Africans, and other Blacks and are full of hatred. You’ll never see a white person look down on another white person regardless of where they’re from, be it Europe, Australia or any other country where they’re white! Yet American Black people are meaner to you than any other race. From people who talk about being hurt and victims you guys sure do the same to others, I’m not shocked because the bullied becomes the bully! That’s why most of we Africans for instance mess w white people because even though they also hurt us in the past through colonialism they’re showing an effort in the present to be respectable and educate themselves. The meanest people I’ve encountered in the US are always black Americans and white ppl have actually been good to me and helped me a lot ! That’s why we Black people will continue being oppressed, nothing will ever change because we’re not the change we want! Change starts from whoever wants to carry out the change!
PBL has a disdain for bandwagon energy lol...the beef was personal not political, rap beefs are apart of Hip Hop culture, which off course was born out of black American culture... every black American aint "us"
She coming at us from her feelings not from personal experience. She appears to be sheltered.
FACTS I FEEL HER ON THAT SHIT. THE BANDWAGON SHIT GOTTA STOP... YOU KNOW HOW MANY WHITE PPL ARE SINGING NOT LIKE US AS WE SPEAK??? RAP MUSIC IS NOT POLITICAL
Let it sink in😂😂😂
I am so glad someone finally said this, and not jumped on the “They not like us” bandwagon just because it’s catchy…
Delineation is paramount to establishing distinction between groups who look similar. Thus, ensuring proper policing of flagrant imposters, tethers, and agent provocateurs.
Why are you people acting like all the groups haven't been delineated? Black Americans have always made a point to distinguish themselves from other blacks like the immigrants do.
@@odinanithegreat7544 no we haven't that's why we're dealing with cosplaying tethers now
@@TradingOptionswMndr thanks.
@@TradingOptionswMndr Drake's dad is a Black American? How is he a tether?
@@blessedchild4941 he's not from the soil he immigrated here
U can tell by the replies that people are infatuated with celebrities. They don't wanna see their favorite entertainer looked at in a negative way... that's what's wrong with the culture..these people are elitist..
Why should the Mother of his children get a Free Pass?? Come on now!!!!😂
She’s not a babymama, she’s a fiancé
She’s not a wife. She’s a baby mama who got an engagement ring 10 years ago and never got married. She is not a wife and you’re not going to disrespect actual women that’s actually married for real.
@@pinkbooklessonsAbsolutely! 💯
No she is not. She is a baby mama.
@@pinkbooklessonsFair enough... 10 years and no marriage 🤔🤔🤔
The idea of babymama always confused me similar to the idea of "single mother"....so if you have a kid out of wedlock you are a BM but if married you not?...so in the event someone gets divorced does the lady with a child become a BM? And similar to single mother...are you a SM because you aren't married or the father is absent? But if the father is present but not in a relationship with the mother and the lady has another in house situation does that stop her from being a single mother?...And the solution of these "negative" terms is offset by 91 or 85 license...can you be a single mother while married? Is it the mere idea of marriage categories everyone despite parent's actions
This colorism thing dates back decades. Sadest part is many of us come from families of darker skinned people, and just ended up the lighter one of the litter. Not because of having a white mother or father (nothing wrong with that), but just how it goes sometimes through the family line and DNA. Either way, seeing how my darker skinned sister, brother and father were treated by society on many occasions does effect you as their family member. Not the same as going through it of course.
So it is hard when you have darker melenated folks come for you based on skin tone, when you know you are ADOS, know where your family picked cotton and visited the land they worked and were buried. But because you're lighter skinned, some how your less than. I believe this comes from the transfer of painful racial experiences that many dark skinned people face daily, onto the people closest to them in proximity. Usually their lighter skinned brothers and sisters. In many cases, people who would take a bullet for them, knowing what they go through just because of their darker skin, are the ones to catch the hurt through colorism.
I realize the Drake thing is a whole different animal, as he was appropriating to some extent. I'm talking about lighter skinned ADOS folks getting their cards pulled, simply because of their complexion.... By dark skinned people, for no other reason than their hatred for lighter skinned people.
Facts!!!!!!!
We none mixed light skin folks are on the sidelines chilling...
@@blast4me754 I feel you. My thing is, I've never been able to sit on a sideline regarding racism and colorism. Because it either affects me directly or indirectly through a darker skinned family member going through it. I believe their is so much trauma associated with our history, both inside and outside our race, that it causes us to turn on ourselves at times.
Nobody that is biracial is us. That’s all!
God bless you, Pinkbook Lessons. ❤
I'm so happy that someone other than myself is FINALLY having this conversation. There's sooooo many contradictions & tone deaf moments from Kendrick's side of this beef, and I am BEYOND ready to pull back the rug and have that conversation.
it is clear that Kendrick Lamar likes to pander to black women as well he called drake "out" for hating black women and using them as a fetish but he does the same thing.
in some of his music videos he has brown/darker women showing their body parts all on camera he is no better and is a hypocrite at its finest.
They are correct. She's Drake, too. No, I'm not a Drake fan.
They in the comment section playing crazy but they know exactly what Kendrick was talking about. ✨💛✨💯💯
A·mer·i·can; A native of America originally applied to the aboriginals or the copper-colored races, found here by the Eur0peans; but now applied to the descendants of Eur0peans born in America. 1828 Websters Dictionary.. Black is not a Race, Nationality or Ethnicity.
They created RACE, ETHNICITY, and NATIONALITY for a reason!!! and there were people who had(still have) names the DESCRIBE BLACK and or BROWN COMPLEXIONS!!! And those were there WAY b4 1828 Webster's dictionary!!!! Stop listening to that lame Callaway BULLSH#T!!!
@@biggwillbeats4384 Islam Noble
Yeah Kendrick never called Drake White Rick Ross called him white boy. And not only that let's keep in mind Kendrick has not done any interviews so everything outside of the art is still un to speculation.
I see it for what it is.....This won't age well.....Kendrick knows he has hypocrisy he is not stupid and he knows when he says not like us he is causing devision between other blacks who are not American but still go through the same struggles as black americans....Also outsider blacks who is not like him has slave ancestors lol....Im done with this....
Love this channel, however the point of the song in your opinion was missed. If that’s what you got out of all of this idk what to say…….STILL LOVE THE CHANNEL 💯
As someone who is mixed. We're never black enough nor white enough, so we should embrace and be proud of our mixed heritage and identify as such imo.
Technically we're all mixed
@@firekingjudah7143No, it takes 3 generations of non mixed linage on both sides to be what your father is
@fire you’re 100% right
A mixed raced woman here and I completely agree. They should bring the race “mulatto” back or “mixed race”. We’re not accepting anywhere
I feel bad for yall.
Stay out of FBA Business
Thank you Pink!
This is why Kendrick's biracial angle always felt odd to me. And this was before I knew his girl was mixed. Kendrick, your kids are not like us. 😩
Mr Pro Black didn’t even create a black family. But he found all the unambiguous black girls to be in the Not Like Us video. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Welp, if your brain is clouded by thinking about skin color then your are missing the message. That’s ok, but if you need further explanation I can assist
So many of yall are still missing a critical point that no one wants to say out loud. Kendrick Lamar wife is half white, Drake is Jewish... Bar Mitva and all that. Jewish peoples identiy come from their mother, not the Father. They not like us is deeper that Black vs White politics. Kendrick identifies as an Israelite, so if you don't understand that... this whole thing just flew over everyone's head.
Drake would be an Israelite then, through his Dad (Judah), according to the Israelite birthright.
@progessiveknowledge4433 he is, but he took on all his mom's spiritual/religious customs
Whitney isn’t half white her mom is bi racial… get it right
@@acevibe2276right she’s what we all call a yellow or redbone. Crazy how quick folk forget shit when it’s convenient
That’s lie. In Jewish culture having a dad that’s jewish counts more than having a mom that’s jewish.
It’s simple. So many (but not all) black people associate light skin with femininity. So they can clown Drake for being mixed because in the mind of someone who is colorist, that makes him less of a man.
On the flip side, Whitney gets a pass for being mixed because they believe the woman is supposed to be lighter than her man anyways. Look at every prominent black couple ever (e.g. jay and Beyoncé, riri and rocky, Kendrick and Whitney). The only exception I can think of is the Obama’s and look how people are always calling Michelle a man.
This! They look at Kendrick's relationship as goals because she's mixed race. It's pathetic how brainwashed FBAs are. They won't even call her a "baby mama" when that's actually what she is! If she was a full blk woman they'd be clowning her.
Its not blk men calling michele a man
@@Si1-p5eNever said it was. Honestly it’s mainly a conversation among conservatives. My point still stands, however.
I agree
The “real” ones know exactly who Kdot is talking about and it’s about time a strong voice in Hip Hop made everyone wake up and sing along. A true pioneer in rap will school you what is really happening to our people.
how vague
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I love your channel. I just saw the video for the first time and I was thinking the same thing. She's not like us! 😂😂😂
That's what ninjas do: they bark Black this, & Black that. Meanwhile, the female they lay next to is "nOt LiKe uS." It's one of many reasons I don't buy into the Black pride talk. It's just that. Talk. It's optics. It's always been that way, & I don't see that ever changing.
I absolutely love all your commentary. You keep it all the way real. With all the FACTS! Please keep talking nothing but the straight truth. As this is a rare quality today. ❤🎉
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"You a black messiah wifing up a mixed queen and hit vanilla creme to help out wit ya self esteem" -Drake
We need women like you to have mainstream media outlets. This made too much sense. TY
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Thank you, the same old hypocrisy. Blk men will lift up biracial women women but diss biracial men. It's plain as day but oh, we can't talk about that though
Literally Drake brought his (Kendrick’s)family into this. It’s not like Whitney was out here praising herself to being mixed.. that women is never seen… imagine someone talking about you as if you had a choice of being mixed… plus her mom was mixed not fully white… and her dad was black.
@@sweetpeathebreadtamer411Whitneys' mom is White.
@@sweetpeathebreadtamer411 no one is criticizing her for who she is! We're calling out the HYPOCRISY that BM like Kendrick exhibit for openly accepting biracial women but disrespecting biracial men. "Rap beef" aside, it's the same old hypocrisy.
@@SparkleInYourEyes2024 She's literally not White. Whitney's mom is biracial.
@@brianal7143 He didn't disrespect Drake for being biracial. He would've made the same statement about J Cole when he rapped about both of them if it was about being biracial.
Lol You don’t spare anyone! You keep it real and raw with black men too not just black women
Funny when they’re stuck in delusion, I can’t tell the difference between the 2 😆 Thanks for watching 🙏
Hypocrisy at its finest. But people will make excuses for Kendrick
Having a baby mama that gives you peace and joy is better than having a deceitful wife who don't show appreciation.
The cope is real
@@Ratgodx Facts, the Kenny glazers ain't even trying to make sense anymore 🤣
Exactly. Lol Doesn't even make sense. @@beeeazy9818
This is dumb. Smh
I meant a baby mama that yours who U made children with not a random one if there was any confusion.
I was under the impression "Not Like Us" was a diss of the small hats which Drake's mother is. Which makes him one according to their religion.
I do agree that the Black delegation changes who's "us" at random. A lot of people, mainly Black women, were praising Meghan Markle as a Black woman when she married Prince Harry and she's just barely off-white.
I'm not American, I'm Nigerian but grew up in the UK. But I never understood the race politics in America. In the UK and Nigeria, ppl who are mixed with white are just called "mixed" (applies to those who aren't just mixed with black or white too). They're not black and they're not white. Even on applications, at least in the UK, there's a section for mixed ppl with different variations they could be mixed with. So i never understood why black Americans would say "mixed ppl are black" when they're not, they're just mixed. I understand the one drop rule, but imo it doesn't matter how many drops of black you are if you're mixed with another race you're mixed. This also doesn't apply to other mixed groups like white and Asian or white and hispanic. Its always with "specific race" and black. It doesn't make sense to me. Even South Africa, that has a similar history to America, mixed ppl are seen as mixed or 'coloured'. Even in the UK, the mixed ppl I've met never say "I'm black" or "I'm white" its just "I'm mixed". But i always hear mixed Americans say they're black, they rarely ever claim the other stuff they're mixed with. Then the picking avd choosing of when mixed ppl are black, like in this situation, when they weren't black to begin with. They were mixed. Its homestly so confusing 🤦🏾♀️.
Couldn’t have said it any better
💯You're right. I rolled my eyes at this "rap beef" because how can you go after a guy like Drake but then procreate with a mixed woman. Not a fan of either artist. Nothing at all wrong with being mixed but you aren't black. Kendrick personal life isn't matching with his brand. I swear people fall for everything its sad...
So many brainwashed people in these comments🤦🏿♂️ PBL spoke nothing but facts💯
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It hurts them to acknowledge their hypocrisy.
People aren’t brainwashed because they understood what Kendrick was talking about, and y’all don’t 💀💀💀
Agree 💯
She didn’t do any real research. Nothing she said was accurate.
Oh y’all hurt Drake career is over 😂 😂
He'll be back stronger than ever next summer 🤣
over? that man will always have a booming career
That's not an argument
Drake will be fine
LOL, Kendrick isn’t talking about “white” Americans, who owned the ships? Who owns the music industry and dominates the media? Who are predominantly in executive positions in government? Everyone needs to wake up and acknowledge who’s actually responsible for a lot of the strife in history across ALL peoples.