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Drake FINALLY Explains Blackface Photo From Pusha-T's Diss Track | Hip Hop News!
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2:36Now PlayingDrake has offered the back story on a controversial photo of him sporting blackface.
The rapper posted a note on his Instagram Stories explaining the image that has become a focal point in his hip-hop beef with Pusha-T.
"I know everyone is enjoying the circus but I want to clarify this image in question," the note statedThe two rappers have been trading barbs via songs, and Pusha-T used a photo of Drake in blackface as the cover image for his single "The Story of Adidon."
In the face of much speculation about the origins of the image, Drake wrote, "This was not from a clothing brand shoot or 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," he wrote. "The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment."
Drake added that he and his best friend at the time, Mazin Elsadig, 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," Drake wrote.
Before he was a rapper, Drake acted under his name of Aubrey Graham (Drake is his middle name) and was a teen star on "Degrassi: The Next Generation," portraying Jimmy Brooks, a character who used a wheelchair.
The back-and-forth with Pusha-T has been raging for days.
On Friday, Pusha-T released the track "Infared," which included a lyric many took as a swipe at chatter that Drake employs ghostwriters for his hits.
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