*sigh* Kara’s learned how to clickbait from her buddies. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy.

same. also he is on Janelle Monae’s label, all those cats seem to have an excellent grasp of history, art, culture, race, etc. and how they all play together

Jidenna also has the support of supreme goddess Janelle Monae and appeared in her “Yoga” video, but I guess that’s not important.

It’s called “doing a Kara Brown,” b/c that’s what she does.

He has said he carries a cane in honor of his father, who carried one, so this makes sense to me.

No.

Of course it was. But he had the audacity to sample Iggy Azalea so Kara Brown had to go on a rampage to try to convince people he’s an asshole and throw in some racist associations.

I actually like this style a lot. I would not date a guy who dressed like this on the regs, but I would eye-fuck him.

Oh dear god I love every second of this so much I could burst. It’s not just lovely, it proves the point - you can see the same necktie style and concern with facial hair that Jidenna displays.

It doesn’t need to be clarified though because I seriously doubt slave owner was anywhere near this guy’s mind when he decided to adopt this style of clothes, and if it was, it was obviously a tongue-in-cheek reference and meant to subvert its meaning. Kara is the only one trying to make an association with slavery…

African Dandy.

“Young Dandy Stock Photo 1890”

He absolutly does! the minute I saw him I was like hmm he’s jsut a student of sapologie... but since no one knows what it is in my neck of hood I kept it to myself..but here you are

The clarification is just more confusing - if that’s not why you’re bringing it up, then why bring it up at all? I mentioned elsewhere that a more obvious reference would be the dapper subculture found in many African cities over the last 30 years, including those of Nigeria, where both his parents have heritage and…

In before people talk about his name.

Thank you for expressing this much better than I could.

I’d imagine his references are more likely to be the dandies that have been a significant subculture of Lagos and many other wealthier African cities since the mid-70’s. The most famous are the sapeurs of Congo, but as a movement it can be found across black sub-Saharan Africa.

Thoreau’s neckbeard-

Or he dresses like a sapeur.

I just assumed that was on purpose - a satirical repositioning. It’s not like he can be blind to that, given that he studied Race and Ethnicity at Stanford?