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Drake has made a career as a heartbroken player who sings and raps. Drake accepts artist of the decade award at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

How Canadian R&B artists like Drake and Justin Bieber complicate ideas of race, music and nationality

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.
Puerto Rican singer Residente performs in Havana in 2010. His back reads, ‘We receive flowers and bullets in the very same heart.’ STR/AFP via Getty Images

Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip-hop

Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands for change.

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