Drake was recently in the news for his issue with Grammys for not recognizing his popular track "One Dance," and instead of giving him an award in the rap category which he doesn't want to be pigeonholed in. Now, the Canadian rapper has come out and said that he never experienced racism until he made his way to America after his career took off. During a recent interview after the Grammys on his OVO Sound Radio show, Drake said "I always had friends from all different backgrounds, all different walks of life, we all get along. I never really notice color, religion. We don’t live like that. There’s not that much segregation in Canada, especially in Toronto. It’s a cultural mosaic. You don’t ever develop hate.”
From there, the rapper went on to explain his initial encounter with racism, saying "The first time I really experienced [racism] was when I got famous and went to America and people would challenge me like I don’t understand how it works or like, ‘Oh, you’re Canadian. You’ll never understand the Black American struggle,'” he said. “That was the first time I had ever gotten challenged. If I ever feel like an outsider it’s usually because I’m not American.”
Source: atlantablackstar.com
