I'm not defending the statement
If anything I just threw him under the bus, the idea that lupe fiasco is overrated is uh, I disagree to say the very least
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Lupe Fiasco: "I’m more culturally Japanese than I am African."
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If anything I just threw him under the bus, the idea that lupe fiasco is overrated is uh, I disagree to say the very least
Actually had a few tell me that I was more Colorado than most Natives lol. Mostly in the fact that I was spending my weekends climbing mountains, being active, and doing the nature. My assistant would call me "California socialist who's actually fun to talk to" lmao.
That's actually super funny. I hope you didn't take it seriously; it was more riffing on the fact that I've been listening to people whine about California invaders for the last 20 years. :P
that's fair - I'm just talking hip hop opinions, you're obviously welcome to disagree
for me, even in his prime there were nicer MCs is all - phonte, shad etc. phonte basically birthed drake so god knows i wish he was more well known, but that's neither here nor there
808s and heartbreak ye undoubtedly has DNA in drizzy, no doubt
I can kinda get what he means. I'm a black American and feel no cultural affinity towards Africa. But just because I love Godzilla, Manga, and Anime, I ain't about to say that I feel culturally Japanese. I just love that shit lol.
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I heard that Clint Eastwood was always squinting in westerns because he's allergic to horses - but that might just be an internet myth.
Clint OG weeaboo!?
I kind of feel what hes saying. My best friend is from africa and me and him are so culturally different. Im black but living in another country than america. I have more of a cultural and emotional connection to a place not of my own heritage. I do want to visit africa one day though.
Thats lupe though...
"He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
Everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
He mimics and mocks it"
Thats lupe though...
"He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
Everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
He mimics and mocks it"
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This is like when whites dudes say "I feel more black than white"
superficial felattio'ing of a culture does not make you more of that culture.
superficial felattio'ing of a culture does not make you more of that culture.
Very much this. I know several people who come from other parts of the world, but consider themselves British because the feel more at home and comfortable with the British way of life than they do their own origins. This also applies to expat Brits.
i am going through different stages of emotions at a rapid pace. confusion, bemusement, anger, exhaustion.
theres a lot going on here.
I think my verdict is that none of this actually deserves any attention.
He's talking about how people ignore lessons they could learn from different cultures while implicitly throwing the entirety of the continent of africa under the bus for apparently having nothing of value to learn from.
this seems more reflective of his insecurities about how africa is percieved than anything else.
go to therapy, dude.
theres a lot going on here.
I think my verdict is that none of this actually deserves any attention.
He's talking about how people ignore lessons they could learn from different cultures while implicitly throwing the entirety of the continent of africa under the bus for apparently having nothing of value to learn from.
this seems more reflective of his insecurities about how africa is percieved than anything else.
go to therapy, dude.
It's really funny that ERA of all places is saying someone can't feel and be what they want to feel and be. Culture is what you like and what you live by not where you were born.
With all due respect, some of you non-Blacks are punching above your weight class. Some of you have a very difficult time issue spotting and should probably read or think more about the discussion before hitting reply.
"What's wrong with being a weeabo?!" oversimplifies the discussion. It's embarrassing.
"What's wrong with being a weeabo?!" oversimplifies the discussion. It's embarrassing.
My man going full weeb I see. But technically if he actually immersed himself in japanese culture, his statement could still be right.
As a black american he has 0 cultural connections to any current african country apart from his racial background. He is as african as white americans are german. As long as he doesn't claim to be more culturally japanese than american, he has not gone 100% weeb yet.
As a black american he has 0 cultural connections to any current african country apart from his racial background. He is as african as white americans are german. As long as he doesn't claim to be more culturally japanese than american, he has not gone 100% weeb yet.
Even before we get to throwing black people in the U.S under the bus for no goddamn reason this is just that fine embarrassing as fuck weeb shit. Liking a few pieces of media a lot don't mean you understand or can claim another culture.
If he was raised as a traditional martial artist steeped in martial ethics, I get it. It's an interesting upbringing/way of life.
So this begs the question... did colonial powers steal from the same source? I am ignorant about the details of the slave trade but isn't the vulnerable population that was sold due to the collapse of an empire after a war?
I know that Haitians (I guess partially?) come from the Fon people of Benin. Is it safe to assume that at the very least, Louisiana Creoles were stolen from the same group?
Slavery in the carribbean was so brutal that women could not menstruate and produce as many offspring so they kept having to traffick many more waves of people each generation. Caribs are fresher out of Africa. Meanwhile Black Americans were more linked generationally to their land and produced more offspring. Ethnic African-Americans on average carry around 25% white dna due to centuries of sexual violence. Does this explain same source, different appearances?
There's too much anti-Black sentiment within my family and it annoys the shit out of me. I got too many relatives that can't think for themselves and partially believe or engage in some anti-Black behaviors... in 2019. I really hate what subjugation did to us mentally. There should be a reverse version of that Black Mirror episode, where you can meet and execute a fully sentient slavemaster AI.
I know that Haitians (I guess partially?) come from the Fon people of Benin. Is it safe to assume that at the very least, Louisiana Creoles were stolen from the same group?
Slavery in the carribbean was so brutal that women could not menstruate and produce as many offspring so they kept having to traffick many more waves of people each generation. Caribs are fresher out of Africa. Meanwhile Black Americans were more linked generationally to their land and produced more offspring. Ethnic African-Americans on average carry around 25% white dna due to centuries of sexual violence. Does this explain same source, different appearances?
There's too much anti-Black sentiment within my family and it annoys the shit out of me. I got too many relatives that can't think for themselves and partially believe or engage in some anti-Black behaviors... in 2019. I really hate what subjugation did to us mentally. There should be a reverse version of that Black Mirror episode, where you can meet and execute a fully sentient slavemaster AI.
I think he's pretty bitter about shit. His whole career pretty much he's been clowned as corny by the very people he thought he was making music for. Not at all making excuses for him when I say this
Lol yeah I can see that. I don't consider Lupe a sellout at this point in time but the biggest sellout in my family was teased by his peers for being a nerd and that fucked with his Black identity. I have to talk him out of that Candace Owens bullshit the next family gathering lol. I don't know how that feels to be in that position and I empathize. I just feel like no matter what, never put anti-Black shit out there, especially if you're an artist with a platform.
Yeah but this has been an issue since the beginning of black artists crossing over. Trying to find a mo better blues youtube clip but i cant, so ill throw the quote here
Different regions of the US "imported" enslaved peoples from different parts of Africa, so enslaved people in the US came from multiple ethnic groups from West and Central Africa. Apart from slave masters raping and then having kids with enslaved African women, enslaved families were deliberately broken up and kids were ripped from their parents and sent to different plantations and husbands and wives were broken up and sent to different plantations as well. Over time this lead to plantations having a mix of people from different African ethnic groups. Naturally, they would fall in love, marry in secret, have kids and the cycle would repeat... family would be broken up then all of them would end up on different plantations. It's quite literally the root cause of the stereotype of "the black family being broken".
My family is from Louisiana and I did a DNA test for shits and giggles and still ended up with the basically 25% swath of white DNA and 75% basically all of West and Central Africa DNA.
The dude is clearly both one doesn't exclude you from the other.
So African Americans are very mixed even within African ethnicities. That makes sense.
We should trade him for Namoi Osaka.he get picked in this years draft?
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We regularly get threads about people determining their gender and sexual orientation and people are supportive. I just don't understand why they would react differently to someone admitting to adopting a culture from another place.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. We comparing this bullshit to race/gender Rachel Dozenal style into 2020? There is still time to edit. Even Childish Gambino beat this dead horse to the ground a couple of years ago...
You shouldn't identify as a nationality if you haven't been living in that nation or among that nation's people for an appreciable amount of time. It's not like gender where there is a sense of dysphoria/euphoria inherent in its expression; the dude's life is not in jeopardy when people call him an American.
I live in Taiwan. I've been here for a long time, speak one of the languages, assimilated into the local customs and traditions. I'm not Taiwanese yet, though, because I haven't been here long enough to really have that culture supercede my American upbringing. All of my mannerisms and cultural touchstones are still American. And I'm damn sure not going to go around saying "I'm Taiwanese!" and wearing traditional clothes just because I like bubble tea and Din Tai Fung. People would rightfully think that I was lame as hell.
That doesn't mean he CAN'T do it, but it does mean people can call him out for that shit if it doesn't wash.
I mean you said it yourself. You're not letting the Taiwanese culture supercede your American upbringing. But if you wanted to, you totally could. If you're in Taiwan and love it there so much so that you want to discard the way you behaved or the culture you had in the US you totally can though. Like just because you're a white dude doesn't mean you can't act like a Taiwanese local man if you chose to. It's about what makes you feel comfortable not what you were born with.
Let me guess, he's still bitter that one too many black girls didn't go out with him because he wasn't "hood enough" when he was a teenager.
Or his "connection" to Japan is just what he sees on TV. We all know how well Africa is represented in the media. :/
Or his "connection" to Japan is just what he sees on TV. We all know how well Africa is represented in the media. :/
i could see someone absorbing american pop culture and deciding they belonged here culturally because that and fast food are basically all we have, but do people not realize that japan is more than samurai movies and anime?
You don't see issue with telling black folk you know a white person that's blacker than they are? You don't see any issues with his self-hating rhetoric about being institutionally impeded by more black folk than white folk, which would require Stinkmeaner levels of blindness to the omnipotence of white supremacy?
Word?