Beefs often target Drake’s race, constructing him as a Canadian who is not Black enough to claim an authentic connection to African-American hip hop culture.
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The diss tracks released by rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar raise interesting questions about defamation in music lyrics.
Since rap’s emergence, artists have boasted about themselves in ways that were funny and sometimes violent, vulgar and sexist. The popularity of the music and its exploitation can be dangerous.
The temporary boycott led to the removal of music from artists including Harry Styles Adele, Billie Eilish, Drake, Post Malone, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West.
A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.
African artists with major US industry support have the advantage - now more than ever.
Canadian R&B artists, including Drake, have built lifestyle brands that simultaneously reinforce and challenge dominant beliefs about R&B music as Black and American, and Canadian identity as white.
As a composer who has used creative AI in my music, I see that many artists will need to renegotiate terms of their labour, but there are also opportunities for different forms of collaboration.
The crowd surge at the Astroworld festival that killed 10 people and injured hundreds highlights the messianic nature of rappers.
Advertisers forked over $5.5 million for a mere 30 seconds of air time during the Super Bowl. Here’s Twitter’s verdict on which brands got social media bang for their bucks.
The Raptors’ success in reaching the NBA final for the first time in the franchise’s history is an opportunity to reflect on the diversity of the team.
Is blackface ever innocent? Is it less racist when a Black person enacts it as a statement of resistance? Because of our history of deep and ongoing racism in Canada, the answer is no.
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Dean of hospitality management, Florida International University
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Associate Professor School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Education, McGill University
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Phd Student in Advertising, University of Tennessee
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Professeure titulaire, Faculté des arts, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies, Western University
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
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Lecturer, Media & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Candidate, Law, Western University
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Race and Media, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Cultural and Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
