DRAKE EXPLAINS THE BLACKFACE PHOTO OF "PUSHA"

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DRAKE EXPLAINS THE BLACKFACE PHOTO OF "PUSHA"

 

“The Story of Adidon,” Pusha-T’s new Drake diss track, features artwork with a photo of the Toronto rapper in blackface. Now, Drake has issued a statement on his Instagram story explaining the image. “This was not from a clothing brand shoot or my music career,” he writes. “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