Racial Classification Confusion, Drake and Kendrick Lamar Beef
Adam Curry and Mo Facts introduce episode 98, the first of the final three episodes of the series. They frame the discussion around the recent Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud, focusing on the "racial classification confusion" it has sparked. The conversation explores whether Drake is "black enough" and the complexities of being racially mixed within a system of white supremacy.
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00:12 Mo Facts with Adam Curry for April 8th, 2024, episode number 98. This is one of three more episodes to go. That's right, we're back. I'm Adam Curry coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country and time once again to spin the wheel of topics from here to Northern Virginia. Please say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. Mo Facts. How you doing, Adam? Oh, Mo, I am good. Once again, we have beaten the enemy and we're on the air. People should know that whenever we start this show, I think every single time there's some kind of weird technical bug that pops up. It's unexplainable. Yeah, well, it is and it isn't, or is it right?
00:57 Everything good, brother? Other than a snake in the chimney and a bear in the bird. Snake in the chimney? Yeah. Oh, man. Now, were you lighting the fire or did it just come down? No. Well, what happened? I heard him in the ceiling. Yeah. And looked for him. Oh, no. Couldn't find him. So then I did all the procedures and saying to get everything any possible entry point. And two days later, he was laying in the basement floor. Dead? Like a three. No, like a three-foot-long black snake. Oh, man. Yeah. And then two nights ago was a bear in the bird feeder right next to the house, just like blynching.
01:41 Hey, that's what it is. That's what it's like. Hey, that's living in the country, man. I love it. I love it. Excellent. Well, it's time once again for Mo Facts with Adam Curry. I'm very excited that we're here to do it for you again. And let's get it rolling. Let's find out what the topic is going to be as we roll that wheel of topics. Round and round it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows except for Mo, of course, because he's prepared another douchey for, I'm sure. The topic of episode 98 is... Jackie is going to come out of Negro. Yep. The Yankees going to come out of the Negro? No, that kid's going to come out a Negro. Okay. This is going to be a show about
02:22 racial classification confusion, but it's due to the recent Drake and Kendrick Lamar B. They got other issues going online. I got to tell you. I saw this thing coming and we had already agreed we're going to record today. And I was just like, oh, Lord, let Mo do something with this because this is, I mean, this is so unhinged off the hook. I mean, I understand. I don't understand. And it's like a distraction, but is it? I'm like, we need Mo's stat is what I was thinking. Well, if you want to learn here about the hip-hop side of it, go back and listen to HIP and Hop, the two shows that we did on hip-hop.
03:09 What I'm seeing here is the racial classification confusion that was brought up with is Drake black? Is he allowed to be black? And people are saying, like, well, are you being color or is Kendrick Lamar being colorist? Right. I'm not going to make it about them because I'm sure people are overdone with the beef leftovers. What this is going to talk about is the aspect of being racially mixed. Why that is an issue. Why that causes confusion. I want to lay it out there first.
03:50 I don't think that's a very good idea to have racially mixed children in the system of white supremacy. If that system didn't exist, it wouldn't matter. But what it does is causes confusion because where the children are obligated to be, see, that's where the real problem, there's this obligation of are you allowed to be this or are you not all we already know if you're a person of color a colored person as I like to say or a non-white person is as Millie Fuller identifies them as you're never going to be allowed to be white so that's off the table and then when you try to go be black in this case
04:38 you're screwed you're you're never going to be black enough and it's not exclusive just to race because I've experienced this with just my family on my mom and dad's side right I mean when you're with your mom's family you're too much like your dad's family right when you're with your dad's family you're too like you're much so this is so I just want to to dig into this subject because it's confusing, literally. Isn't the real problem that Drake's a Canadian? I mean, isn't that his biggest offense, really? That's a well, that's another
05:15 part of it. It's that one, he's not ADAS as he is by lineage from his father, right? But he didn't grow up with that culture, and then he comes in and like he identifies with the what I believe is some of the worst parts of the culture. And I could, I get it because he's trying to fit in, so you kind of got to overdo it to fit in to overcompensate. And we've talked about this for four years: of understanding ADAS people circling their wagons because they feel like all the outsiders are being lumped into our culture, which we don't have a culture.
06:00 I know it's going to all this episode is going to piss everybody off. This is why I waited to do this one, near the end of the run. All right, right. This is going to be the least pissed off you're going to be of the last three episodes. So, I'm going to just get ready. Not you. Ramping up. Now, I hear you're ramping up, ramping up. All right. Because it's triggering. It literally is triggering to say you're not black enough. You know, you'll never be white, but that's the system. That's, I don't make the rules. Honestly, I think it's stupid. I think race, the whole conversation we know is a construct is created. And we're just going to figure out why it's silly. But
