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Drake claims rival rapper Pusha T used a blackface photo out of context. Pusha T released “The Story of Adidon” on Tuesday, and the artwork featured Drake in blackface.
Drake posted Wednesday night on Instagram that the image was not from a clothing brand shoot or his music career. He said the picture was from 2007, when he was an actor working on a project about young black actors struggling to get roles.
He said the photo represented how blacks were once “wrongfully portrayed in entertainment.”
The rap stars renewed their feud last week with the release of Pusha T’s new album. In his song “Infrared,” Pusha T accuses Drake of using a ghostwriter.
Samantha Bee apologizes for using slur about Ivanka Trump
Comedian Samantha Bee apologized to Ivanka Trump and her viewers Thursday for using an expletive to describe the president’s daughter.
Bee said her language was “inappropriate and inexcusable.” She said she crossed a line and deeply regrets it.
In a discussion of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on Bee’s TBS show “Full Frontal” on Wednesday, she used a vulgarity in reference to Ivanka Trump and urged her to talk to her father about policies that separate children from their parents.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the language was vile and vicious and called on network management to demonstrate that it wouldn’t be condoned.