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Hip Hop artist Drake negotiates race, class, gender, and nationality as a Canadian success

What is it about?

This article examines the cultural conditions of that success, exploring how nationality, race, gender, and class intersect with hip hop as a genre in Drake's work.

Why is it important?

Drake is one of the most commercially successful pop music artists in history and certainly the most commercially successful hip hop artist to emerge from Canada. Exploring the cultural conditions of that success sheds light on the cultural work hip hop performs in Canada and the US (from where Drake's success arguably stems), as well as the possibilities and constraints public figures such as Drake face in the public performance of hip hop's racial, gendered, and national identities.

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