"Stupid idea"
So black people cant recontextualization racist imagery for art? Or does Drake being half white change the rules somehow?
Sure they can. It's a tough pill to swallow and I'm sure there are people who aren't cool with the Story of OJ video. Difference is there's context there in the framework of a whole song, the title gives you a thematic idea of what Jay is getting at with the imagery (if you're familiar with OJ Simpson pre-trail). Jay had a whole no-nonsense album to back up those intentions. You can really try to acclimate people to it and they still might not like it.
This is Drake though. A guy who treated this like a skeleton in his closet and chose not to speak on the passion that drove this art whatsoever when he got a platform to barring a couple of lines, occasionally. Being mixed doesn't matter as far as being for the cause as if there haven't been a multitude of mixed activists.
I'm not going at you or anything but just trying to give you an idea of why people might not buy it, so to speak. I'm not mad like that either, I just feel he doesn't have the kind of clout for it and should have apologised instead.
